CODE OF VIRGINIA

VOTING SYSTEMS; DEMONSTRATION ON ELECTION DAY (§ 24.2-647)

The general registrar shall provide at each polling place on election day, for
the voting system in use, a model of or materials displaying a portion of its
ballot face. The model or materials shall be located on the table of one of the
officers or in some other place accessible to the voters. An officer of election
shall instruct any voter who requests instruction before voting on the proper
manner of voting. The officer may direct the voter’s attention to sample
ballots so that the voter may become familiar with the location of questions and
names of offices and candidates.For ballot scanner machines, an officer of
election, using a demonstration ballot and machine, shall show each voter who
requests, immediately on entry to the polling place, the manner in which the
ballot is to be voted.If any voter, after entering the voting booth, asks for
further instructions concerning the manner of voting, two of the officers from
different political parties shall give such instructions to him, but no officer
shall in any manner request or seek to persuade or induce any such voter to vote
for or against any particular ticket, candidate, or question. After giving such
instructions and before the voter votes, the officers shall leave the voting
booth, and the voter shall cast his ballot in secret.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 24-309; 1970, c. 462, § 24.1-219; 1980, c. 639; 1985, c.
458; 1993, c. 641; 2014, cc. 540, 576; 2016, cc. 18, 492.