Conduct of Election; Election Results
24.2-643Qualified voter permitted to vote; procedures at polling place; voter identification24.2-644Voting by paper ballot; voting for presidential electors; write-in votes24.2-645Defaced printed ballots24.2-646Voter folds paper ballot and hands same to officer who deposits it unopened in ballot container24.2-646.1Permitted use of paper ballots24.2-647Voting systems; demonstration on election day24.2-648Write-in votes on voting equipment24.2-649Assistance for certain voters inside the polling place; penalties24.2-649.1Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place24.2-650Officers to sign only official papers, etc24.2-651RepealedRepealed24.2-651.1Voter who is shown as having already voted; provisional ballots24.2-652Voter whose name erroneously omitted from pollbook; provisional ballots24.2-653(Effective until January 1, 2027) Provisional voting; procedures in polling place24.2-653.01(Effective September 1, 2026, until January 1, 2027) Provisional ballots; electoral boards to make determination as to validity24.2-653.1Voters who did not receive absentee ballots; provisional ballots24.2-653.2Ballots cast after normal close of polling hours due to court-ordered extension; provisional ballots24.2-653.3Voters assigned to split precinct; provisional ballots24.2-654(Effective September 1, 2026) Officers to lock and seal voting equipment and ascertain vote after polls closed; statement of results24.2-655Representatives of political parties and candidates to be present on request24.2-656RepealedRepealed24.2-657Determination of vote on voting systems24.2-658Machines with printed return sheets; disposition of sheets24.2-659Locking voting systems after election and delivering keys to clerk; printed returns as evidence24.2-660RepealedRepealed24.2-661Detection and setting aside of double ballots24.2-662Procedure when paper ballots exceed names on pollbooks24.2-663When ballot void24.2-664Reduction in number of ballots24.2-665How paper ballots counted24.2-666Procedures to account for paper ballots24.2-667Completion of statement of results24.2-667.1Reporting of results; absentee and provisional votes24.2-668Pollbooks, statements of results, and ballots to be sealed and delivered to clerk or general registrar24.2-669Clerk to keep ballots; inspection; destruction24.2-670Clerk to send for books and ballots if not delivered by officers24.2-671Electoral board to meet and ascertain results; conclusiveness of results24.2-671.1RepealedRepealed24.2-671.2Risk-limiting audits24.2-672Electoral board to correct irregularities in returns of officers of election24.2-673Candidates having highest number of votes to receive certificate of election24.2-673.1Ranked choice voting24.2-674Determination by lot in case of tie24.2-675Abstracts of votes to be made by secretary and forwarded to State Board and to clerks24.2-676(Effective until January 1, 2027) Secretary to make out and deliver certificate of election24.2-677State Board to open and record returns; application of Freedom of Information Act24.2-678Law-enforcement officer to be sent for abstracts not forwarded24.2-679State Board to meet and make statement as to number of votes24.2-680(Effective until January 1, 2027) Certificates of election