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Chapter 6 - The Election (24.2-600 thru 24.2-687)

• 24.2-600 - Cost of elections.
• 24.2-601 - Town election process.
• 24.2-602 - Exemption for ballots and election materials from certain purchasing and procurement requirements.
• 24.2-603 - Hours polls to be open; closing the polls.
• 24.2-603.1 - Postponement of certain elections; state of emergency.
• 24.2-604 - Prohibited activities at polls; notice of prohibited area; electioneering; presence of representatives of parties or candidates; simulated elections; observers; news media; penalties.
• 24.2-604.1 - Signs for special entrances to polling places.
• 24.2-604.2 - Polling places; prohibited area; emergency situations.
• 24.2-605 - Loudspeakers prohibited at polls; penalty.
• 24.2-606 - Preservation of order at elections.
• 24.2-607 - Prohibited conduct; intimidation of voters; disturbance of election; how prevented; penalties.
• 24.2-608 - Officers to decide order of voting.
• 24.2-609 - Voting booths.
• 24.2-610 - Materials at polling places.
• 24.2-611 - (Effective until November 1, 2010) Form and signing of pollbooks; records of persons voting; electronic pollbooks.
• 24.2-612 - List of offices and candidates filed with State Board and checked for accuracy; when ballots printed; number required.
• 24.2-612.1 - Ballots; death, withdrawal, or disqualification of candidates.
• 24.2-613 - Form of ballot.
• 24.2-614 - Preparation and form of presidential election ballots.
• 24.2-615 - Separate ballots for proposed constitutional amendments, etc.; uniform ballots.
• 24.2-616 - Duties of printer; statement; penalty.
• 24.2-617 - Representative of electoral board to be present at printing; custody of ballots; electoral board may disclose contents, style, and size.
• 24.2-618 - Delivery of ballots to electoral board; checking and recording number.
• 24.2-619 - Sealing ballots.
• 24.2-620 - Dividing ballots into packages for each precinct; delivery of absentee ballots.
• 24.2-621 - Delivery of packages to officers; opening packages.
• 24.2-622 - Sample ballots.
• 24.2-623 - Ballot containers to be supplied by governing bodies; construction and custody.
• 24.2-624 - Opening and closing ballot containers; opening polls.
• 24.2-625 - Application of Title 24.2 and general law.
• 24.2-625.1 - Voting equipment security.
• 24.2-625.2 - Wireless communications at polling places.
• 24.2-626 - Governing bodies shall acquire electronic voting or counting systems.
• 24.2-626.1 - Acquisition and use of accessible voting devices.
• 24.2-627 - Mechanical and electronic voting or counting devices; number required.
• 24.2-628 - Authorized use of mechanical voting devices.
• 24.2-629 - Authorized use of electronic systems and ballots.
• 24.2-630 - Experimental use of approved systems.
• 24.2-631 - Experimental use of voting systems and ballots prior to approval of the system.
• 24.2-632 - Voting equipment custodians.
• 24.2-633 - Notice of final testing of equipment; sealing equipment.
• 24.2-634 - Locking and securing after preparation.
• 24.2-635 - Demonstration of equipment.
• 24.2-636 - Instruction as to use of equipment.
• 24.2-637 - Furniture and equipment to be at polling places.
• 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.
• 24.2-639 - Duties of officers of election.
• 24.2-640 - Ballots generally.
• 24.2-641 - Sample ballot.
• 24.2-642 - Inoperative equipment.
• 24.2-643 - Qualified voter permitted to vote; procedures at polling place; voter identification.
• 24.2-644 - Voting by paper ballot; voting for presidential electors; write-in votes.
• 24.2-645 - Defaced paper ballots.
• 24.2-646 - Voter folds paper ballot and hands same to officer who deposits it unopened in ballot container.
• 24.2-646.1 - Permitted use of paper ballots.
• 24.2-647 - Voting equipment; demonstration on election day.
• 24.2-648 - Write-in votes on voting equipment.
• 24.2-649 - Assistance for certain voters.
• 24.2-650 - Officers to sign only official papers, etc.
• 24.2-651 - Voter who is challenged; how challenge tried.
• 24.2-651.1 - Voter who is shown as having already voted; challenge and procedure for voting; voter identification.
• 24.2-652 - Voter whose name erroneously omitted from pollbook.
• 24.2-653 - Voter whose name does not appear on pollbook; handling of provisional ballots; ballots cast after normal close of polls due to court order extending polling hours.
• 24.2-653.1 - Voters who did not receive absentee ballots; provisional ballots.
• 24.2-654 - Officers to lock and seal voting equipment and ascertain vote after polls closed; statement of results.
• 24.2-655 - Representatives of political parties and candidates to be present on request.
• 24.2-656 - Description unavailable
• 24.2-657 - Determination of vote on voting equipment.
• 24.2-658 - Devices with printed return sheets; disposition of sheets.
• 24.2-659 - Locking voting and counting devices after election and delivering keys to clerk; printed returns as evidence.
• 24.2-660 - Description unavailable
• 24.2-661 - Detection and setting aside of double ballots.
• 24.2-662 - Procedure when paper ballots exceed names on pollbooks.
• 24.2-663 - When ballot void.
• 24.2-664 - Reduction in number of ballots.
• 24.2-665 - How paper ballots counted.
• 24.2-666 - Procedures to account for paper ballots.
• 24.2-667 - Completion of statement of results.
• 24.2-668 - Pollbooks, statements of results, and ballots to be sealed and delivered to clerk or general registrar.
• 24.2-669 - Clerk to keep ballots; inspection; destruction.
• 24.2-670 - Clerk to send for books and ballots if not delivered by officers.
• 24.2-671 - Electoral board to meet and ascertain results; conclusiveness of results.
• 24.2-671.1 - Pilot programs for audits of optical scan tabulators.
• 24.2-672 - Electoral board to correct irregularities in returns of officers of election.
• 24.2-673 - Candidates having highest number of votes to receive certificate of election.
• 24.2-674 - Determination by lot in case of tie.
• 24.2-675 - Abstracts of votes to be made by secretary and forwarded to State Board and to clerks.
• 24.2-676 - Secretary to make out and deliver certificate of election.
• 24.2-677 - State Board to open and record returns; application of Freedom of Information Act.
• 24.2-678 - Law-enforcement officer to be sent for abstracts not forwarded.
• 24.2-679 - State Board to meet and make statement as to number of votes.
• 24.2-680 - Certificates of election.
• 24.2-681 - How special elections superintended and determined.
• 24.2-682 - Times for special elections.
• 24.2-683 - Writ for special election to fill a vacancy.
• 24.2-684 - How referendum elections called and held, and the results ascertained and certified.
• 24.2-684.1 - Requirements for voter petitions to call for referendum elections.
• 24.2-685 - Special elections; request for abolition of constitutional offices.
• 24.2-686 - Special elections; petition and referendum requirements; abolition of constitutional office by change in form of government.
• 24.2-687 - Authorization for distribution of information on referendum elections.