                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PREPARATION AND FORM OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BALLOTS (§ 24.2-614)

As soon as practicable after the seventy-fourth day before the presidential
election, the State Board shall certify to the general registrar of each county
and city the form of official ballot for the presidential election which shall
be uniform throughout the Commonwealth. Each general registrar shall have the
official ballot printed at least 45 days preceding the election.
		The ballot shall contain the name of each political party and the party group
name, if any, specified by the individuals naming electors by petition pursuant
to § 24.2-242. Below the party name in parentheses, the ballot shall contain
the words &#8220;Electors for __________, President and __________, Vice
President&#8221; with the blanks filled in with the names of the candidates for
President and Vice President for whom the candidates for electors are expected
to vote in the Electoral College.
		Groups of petitioners qualifying for a party name under § 24.2-242 shall be
treated as a class; the order of the groups shall be determined by lot by the
State Board; and the groups shall immediately precede the independent class on
the ballot. The names of the candidates within the independent class shall be
listed alphabetically.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 24-215, 24-290.4; 1952, c. 330; 1970, c. 462, §§
24.1-111, 24.1-160; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 119; 1972, c. 620; 1973, c. 30; 1980, c.
639; 1981, c. 425; 1982, c. 650; 1984, c. 480; 1993, c. 641; 1997, c. 209; 2002,
c. 738; 2016, cc. 18, 492; 2018, c. 464; 2024, c. 801.