Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Elections
 
Board
State Board of Elections
 
chapter
Absentee Voting [1 VAC 20 ‑ 70]
Chapter is Exempt from Article 2 of the Administrative Process Act
Action Material omissions from absentee ballots.
Stage Final
Comment Period Ended on 10/12/2011
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10/7/11  9:58 pm
Commenter: M.H. Wilkinson

Rejection of Absentee Ballots
 

Absentee ballots should not be rejected for superficial, inconsequential, or incidental errors. Voting is such a critical aspect of our public lives that only those ballots containing clearly fradulent errors,  deliberately misleading entries or submitted by an indisputably ineligible voter should be disallowed. Judgment calls should be decided in favor of the accepting the ballot.  over this text and enter your comments here. You are limited to approximately 3000 words.

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