                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DESTRUCTION OF, OR FAILURE TO MAIL OR DELIVER, VOTER REGISTRATION APPLICATION;
PENALTY (§ 24.2-1002.01)

If any person (i) agrees to mail or deliver a signed voter registration
application to the voter registrar or other appropriate person authorized to
receive the application and (ii) intentionally interferes with the
applicant&#8217;s effort to register either by destroying the application or by
failing to mail or deliver the application in a timely manner, he shall be
guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The mailing or delivery of an application shall
be deemed timely for the purposes of this section if it is mailed or delivered
within 10 days of the applicant&#8217;s signature or in accordance with the
provisions of § 24.2-416.4 for processing before the closing of the
registration records for the pending election whichever comes first. This
section shall not apply to any state or local government employee acting in his
official capacity. If any person intentionally solicits multiple registrations
from any one person or intentionally falsifies a registration application, he
shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony.

HISTORY: 1997, c. 337; 2005, cc. 339, 412; 2013, c. 465.