24.2-675 - Abstracts of votes to be made by secretary and forwarded to State Board and to clerks.
§ 24.2-675. Abstracts of votes to be made by secretary and forwarded to StateBoard and to clerks.
As soon as the electoral board determines the persons who have received thehighest number of votes for any office, the secretary shall make out anabstract of the votes for each of the following: Governor; LieutenantGovernor; Attorney General; members of the Senate of Virginia; members of theHouse of Delegates; members of the United States Senate; members of theUnited States House of Representatives; electors of the President and VicePresident of the United States; each county office; each city office; eachdistrict office; each town office; and such others as may be required forstatewide referenda. The abstracts shall contain the names of all personsreceiving any vote for each office and the total number of votes received byeach person or for or against each question. However, if no person waselected by write-in votes and the total number of write-in votes for anyoffice is less than (i) five percent of the total number of votes cast forthat office and (ii) the total number of votes cast for the candidatereceiving the most votes, the abstract shall contain only the total number ofwrite-in votes and not the number of write-in votes for each person receivingwrite-in votes.
The abstracts shall be certified and signed by the electoral board, attestedby the secretary, and retained by the electoral board as part of its records.A copy of each, certified under the official seal of the electoral board,shall immediately be mailed or delivered by hand to the State Board. TheState Board shall require the electoral board of any county or city tocorrect any errors found on such abstracts prior to completing therequirements of § 24.2-679.
One certified copy of each abstract of votes shall be forwarded (i) to theclerk of the city council or board of supervisors and recorded in its recordbook, (ii) for town elections, to the clerk of the town council and recordedin its minute book, and (iii) for each local referendum, to the circuit courtfor the locality.
(Code 1950, §§ 24-278 through 24-280; 1970, c. 462, § 24.1-150; 1972, c. 620;1975, c. 515; 1976, c. 616; 1981, c. 425; 1993, c. 641; 1996, c. 223; 2003,c. 1015.)