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- Va. Code § 24.2-634 · Locking and securing after preparation
- Va. Code § 24.2-635 · Demonstration of equipment
- Va. Code § 24.2-636 · Instruction as to use of equipment
- Va. Code § 24.2-637 · Furniture and equipment to be at polling places
- Va. Code § 24.2-638 · Voting equipment to be in plain view; officers and others not permitted to see actual voting; unlocking counter compartment of equipment, etc
- Va. Code § 24.2-639 · Duties of officers of election
- Va. Code § 24.2-640 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 24.2-641 · Sample ballot
- Va. Code § 24.2-642 · Inoperative equipment
- Va. Code § 24.2-643 · Qualified voter permitted to vote; procedures at polling place; voter identification
- Va. Code § 24.2-644 · Voting by paper ballot; voting for presidential electors; write-in votes
- Va. Code § 24.2-645 · Defaced printed ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-646 · Voter folds paper ballot and hands same to officer who deposits it unopened in ballot container
- Va. Code § 24.2-646.1 · Permitted use of paper ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-647 · Voting systems; demonstration on election day
- Va. Code § 24.2-648 · Write-in votes on voting equipment
- Va. Code § 24.2-649 · Assistance for certain voters inside the polling place; penalties
- Va. Code § 24.2-649.1 · Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place
- Va. Code § 24.2-650 · Officers to sign only official papers, etc
- Va. Code § 24.2-651 · Voter who is challenged; how challenge tried
- Va. Code § 24.2-651.1 · Voter who is shown as having already voted; provisional ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-652 · Voter whose name erroneously omitted from pollbook; provisional ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-653 · Provisional voting; procedures in polling place
- Va. Code § 24.2-653.01 · Provisional ballots; electoral boards to make determination as to validity
- Va. Code § 24.2-653.1 · Voters who did not receive absentee ballots; provisional ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-653.2 · Ballots cast after normal close of polling hours due to court-ordered extension; provisional ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-653.3 · Voters assigned to split precinct; provisional ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-654 · Officers to lock and seal voting equipment and ascertain vote after polls closed; statement of results
- Va. Code § 24.2-655 · Representatives of political parties and candidates to be present on request
- Va. Code § 24.2-656 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 24.2-657 · Determination of vote on voting systems
- Va. Code § 24.2-658 · Machines with printed return sheets; disposition of sheets
- Va. Code § 24.2-659 · Locking voting systems after election and delivering keys to clerk; printed returns as evidence
- Va. Code § 24.2-660 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 24.2-661 · Detection and setting aside of double ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-662 · Procedure when paper ballots exceed names on pollbooks
- Va. Code § 24.2-663 · When ballot void
- Va. Code § 24.2-664 · Reduction in number of ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-665 · How paper ballots counted
- Va. Code § 24.2-666 · Procedures to account for paper ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-667 · Completion of statement of results
- Va. Code § 24.2-667.1 · Reporting of results; absentee and provisional votes
- Va. Code § 24.2-668 · Pollbooks, statements of results, and ballots to be sealed and delivered to clerk or general registrar
- Va. Code § 24.2-669 · Clerk to keep ballots; inspection; destruction
- Va. Code § 24.2-670 · Clerk to send for books and ballots if not delivered by officers
- Va. Code § 24.2-671 · Electoral board to meet and ascertain results; conclusiveness of results
- Va. Code § 24.2-671.1 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 24.2-671.2 · Risk-limiting audits
- Va. Code § 24.2-672 · Electoral board to correct irregularities in returns of officers of election
- Va. Code § 24.2-673 · Candidates having highest number of votes to receive certificate of election
- Va. Code § 24.2-673.1 · (Expires July 1, 2031) Ranked choice voting
- Va. Code § 24.2-674 · Determination by lot in case of tie
- Va. Code § 24.2-675 · Abstracts of votes to be made by secretary and forwarded to State Board and to clerks
- Va. Code § 24.2-676 · Secretary to make out and deliver certificate of election
- Va. Code § 24.2-677 · State Board to open and record returns; application of Freedom of Information Act
- Va. Code § 24.2-678 · Law-enforcement officer to be sent for abstracts not forwarded
- Va. Code § 24.2-679 · State Board to meet and make statement as to number of votes
- Va. Code § 24.2-680 · Certificates of election
- Va. Code § 24.2-681 · How special elections superintended and determined
- Va. Code § 24.2-682 · Times for special elections
- Va. Code § 24.2-683 · Writ for special election to fill a vacancy
- Va. Code § 24.2-684 · How referendum elections called and held, and the results ascertained and certified
- Va. Code § 24.2-684.1 · Requirements for voter petitions to call for referendum elections
- Va. Code § 24.2-685 · Special elections; request for abolition of constitutional offices
- Va. Code § 24.2-686 · Special elections; petition and referendum requirements; abolition of constitutional office by change in form of government
- Va. Code § 24.2-687 · Authorization for distribution of information on referendum elections
- Va. Code § 24.2-700 · Persons entitled to vote by absentee ballot
- Va. Code § 24.2-700.1 · Persons entitled to vote by absentee ballot; persons confined awaiting trial or for conviction of a misdemeanor
- Va. Code § 24.2-701 · Application for absentee ballot
- Va. Code § 24.2-701.1 · Absentee voting in person
- Va. Code § 24.2-701.2 · Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices
- Va. Code § 24.2-702 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 24.2-702.1 · Federal write-in absentee ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-703 · Application for absentee ballots for multiple elections for uniformed and overseas voters
- Va. Code § 24.2-703.1 · Permanent absentee voter list
- Va. Code § 24.2-703.2 · Replacement absentee ballots for certain disabled or ill voters; penalty
- Va. Code § 24.2-704 · Applications and ballots for persons requiring assistance in voting; penalty
- Va. Code § 24.2-705 · Emergency applications and absentee ballots for individual emergencies
- Va. Code § 24.2-705.1 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 24.2-706 · Duty of general registrar on receipt of application; statement of voter
- Va. Code § 24.2-707 · How ballots marked and returned
- Va. Code § 24.2-707.1 · Drop-off locations for return of absentee ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-708 · Return of unused ballots; voting by applicant who did not receive or lost ballot; defaced ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-709 · Ballot to be returned in manner prescribed by law
- Va. Code § 24.2-709.1 · Processing returned absentee ballots before election day; cure process
- Va. Code § 24.2-710 · Absentee voter applicant lists
- Va. Code § 24.2-711 · Duties of electoral board, general registrar, and officers of election
- Va. Code § 24.2-711.1 · Absentee ballots; confirmation of receipt; notice of reason for rejection
- Va. Code § 24.2-712 · Central absentee voter precincts; counting ballots
- Va. Code § 24.2-713 · Emergency authority of the Commissioner of Elections
- Va. Code § 24.2-800 · Recounts in all elections
- Va. Code § 24.2-801 · Petition for recount; recount court
- Va. Code § 24.2-801.1 · Petition for recount of election for presidential electors; recount court
- Va. Code § 24.2-802 · Recount standards
- Va. Code § 24.2-802.1 · Preliminary hearing; court to fix procedure for recount, appoint officers, and supervise the recount
- Va. Code § 24.2-802.2 · General recount procedures
- Va. Code § 24.2-802.3 · Costs of the recount
- Va. Code § 24.2-803 · Contest of election to General Assembly
- Va. Code § 24.2-804 · Contest of elections of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General
- Va. Code § 24.2-805 · Contest of elections of electors for President and Vice President or primaries for United States Senate or statewide office