24.2-418 - Application for registration.
§ 24.2-418. Application for registration.
A. Each applicant to register shall provide, subject to felony penalties formaking false statements pursuant to § 24.2-1016, the information necessary tocomplete the application to register. Unless physically disabled, he shallsign the application. The application to register shall be only on a form orforms prescribed by the State Board.
The form of the application to register shall require the applicant toprovide the following information: full name; gender; date of birth; socialsecurity number, if any; whether the applicant is presently a United Statescitizen; address of residence in the precinct; place of last previousregistration to vote; and whether the applicant has ever been adjudicatedincapacitated or convicted of a felony, and if so, under what circumstancesthe applicant's right to vote has been restored. The form shall contain astatement that whoever votes more than once in any election in the same ordifferent jurisdictions shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.
B. The form shall permit any individual, as follows, or member of hishousehold, to furnish, in addition to his residence street address, a postoffice box address located within the Commonwealth to be included in lieu ofhis street address on the lists of registered voters and persons who voted,which are furnished pursuant to §§ 24.2-405 and 24.2-406, on voterregistration records made available for public inspection pursuant to §24.2-444, or on lists of absentee voter applicants furnished pursuant to §24.2-706 or 24.2-710. The voter shall comply with the provisions of §24.2-424 for any change in the post office box address provided under thissubsection.
1. Any active or retired law-enforcement officer, as defined in § 9.1-101 andin 5 U.S.C. § 8331(20), but excluding officers whose duties relate todetention as defined in 5 U.S.C. § 8331(20);
2. Any party granted a protective order issued by or under the authority ofany court of competent jurisdiction, including but not limited to courts ofthe Commonwealth of Virginia;
3. Any party who has furnished a signed written statement by the party thathe is in fear for his personal safety from another person who has threatenedor stalked him, accompanied by evidence that he has filed a complaint with amagistrate or law-enforcement official against such other person; and
4. Any party participating in the address confidentiality program pursuant to§ 2.2-515.2.
C. If the applicant formerly resided in another state, the portion of theapplication to register listing an applicant's place of last previousregistration to vote, or a copy thereof, shall be retained by the generalregistrar for the city or county where the applicant resides, and the generalregistrar shall send the original or a copy to the appropriate voterregistration official or other authority of another state where the applicantformerly resided.
(Code 1950, §§ 24-28, 24-68; 1952, c. 341; 1958, c. 576; 1960, c. 288; 1962,c. 536; 1968, c. 97; 1970, c. 462, §§ 24.1-22, 24.1-48; 1971, Ex. Sess., cc.205, 247; 1972, c. 620; 1974, c. 428; 1975, c. 515; 1977, c. 490; 1980, c.639; 1989, c. 138; 1992, c. 433; 1993, c. 641; 1994, c. 250; 1995, c. 314;1996, c. 251; 1997, cc. 346, 801; 2001, cc. 612, 626; 2004, c. 184; 2009, cc.318, 865, 870, 874; 2010, cc. 795, 812.)