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2010 SESSION
10100892DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 24.2-1002.01 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 24.2-1002.01. Destruction of, failure to mail or deliver, or retaining copy of voter registration application; penalty.
If any person (i)
agrees to mail or deliver a signed voter registration application to the voter
registrar or other appropriate person authorized to receive the application and (ii) (i)
intentionally interferes with the applicant's effort to register either by
destroying the application or by failing to mail or deliver the application in
a timely manner, or (ii) creates
or retains a copy of a signed voter
registration application, he shall be is
guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The mailing or delivery of an application
shall be deemed timely for the purposes of this section if it is mailed or
delivered within 15 days of the applicant's signature or in accordance with the
provisions of § 24.2-416.4 for processing before the closing of the
registration records for the pending election whichever comes first. This
section shall not apply to any state or local government employee acting in his
official capacity. If any person intentionally solicits multiple registrations
from any one person or intentionally falsifies a registration application, he shall be is
guilty of a Class 5 felony.