                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REGULAR PERIODIC REVIEW OF REGISTRATION RECORDS; NOTICE TO VOTERS IDENTIFIED AS
HAVING MOVED; PLACEMENT ON INACTIVE STATUS FOR FAILURE TO RESPOND TO NOTICE (§
24.2-428)

A. The Department of Elections shall establish a voter list maintenance program
using the change of address information supplied by the United States Postal
Service through its licensees or by other reliable sources to identify voters
whose addresses may have changed. Any such program shall be regular and periodic
and shall be conducted at least annually. The program shall be completed not
later than ninety days prior to the date of a federal primary or federal general
election.

B. If it appears from information provided by the Postal Service or by other
reliable sources that a voter has moved to a different address in the same
county or city in which the voter is currently registered, the Department shall
provide to the general registrar the information necessary to change the
registration records to show the new address, and the Department or the general
registrar shall send to the new address of the voter by forwardable mail, a
notice of the change, along with a postage prepaid, pre-addressed return card by
which the voter may verify or correct the address information.

C. If it appears from information provided by the Postal Service or by other
reliable sources that a voter has moved to a different address not in the same
county or city, the Department or the general registrar shall send to the last
known address of the voter by forwardable mail, a notice on a form prescribed by
the Department, along with a postage prepaid and pre-addressed return card on
which the voter may state his current address.

D. The registered voter shall complete and sign the return card subject to
felony penalties for making false statements pursuant to &#xA7; 24.2-1016.

E. The general registrar shall correct his registration records from the
information obtained from the return card. If the information indicates that the
registered voter has moved to another general registrar&#8217;s jurisdiction
within the Commonwealth, the general registrar shall transfer the registration
record, along with the return card, to the appropriate general registrar who
shall treat the request for a change of address as a request for transfer and
shall send a voter registration card as confirmation of the transfer to the
voter pursuant to &#xA7; 24.2-424. If the general registrar does not receive the
return card provided for in subsection C of this section within thirty days
after it is sent to the voter, the registered voter&#8217;s name shall be placed
on inactive status. A registered voter&#8217;s failure to receive the notice
shall not affect the validity of the inactivation.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 24-96, 24-97, 24-107; 1954, c. 690; 1962, c. 536; 1964,
c. 538; 1970, c. 462, §§ 24.1-59, 24.1-60; 1972, c. 620; 1973, c. 30; 1975, c.
515; 1976, c. 616; 1982, c. 650; 1986, c. 241; 1990, c. 313; 1991, c. 10; 1993,
c. 641; 1996, cc. 72, 73; 2000, c. 857; 2015, c. 740.