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1997 SESSION
977465713Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 24.2-643 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 24.2-643. Qualified voter permitted to vote; entry of voter's name on pollbook; other information.
A. After the polls are open, each qualified voter at a precinct shall be permitted to vote. The officers of election shall ascertain that a person offering to vote is a qualified voter before admitting him to the voting booth and furnishing an official ballot to him.
B. An officer of election shall ask the voter for his full name and current
residence address and repeat, in a voice audible to party and candidate
representatives present, the full name and address stated by the voter. The
officer shall ask any the voter, who is subject to
the requirement to vote in person pursuant to subsection B of §
24.2-416.1, to present any one of the following forms of identification:
his Commonwealth of Virginia voter registration card, his social security card,
any preprinted form of identification which shows his name and address, any
preprinted form of identification which shows his name and signature, or any
preprinted form of identification which shows his name and photograph.
If the voter's name is found on the registered voter list, if the voter presents one of the forms of identification listed above, if he is qualified to vote in the election, and if no objection is made, an officer shall mark the voter's name on the registered voter list, an officer shall enter, opposite the voter's preprinted name on the pollbook, the first or next consecutive number from the voter count form provided by the State Board, an officer shall provide the voter with the official ballot, and another officer shall admit him to the voting booth.
If a voter, who is subject to the requirement to vote in person pursuant
to subsection B of § 24.2-416.1, is entitled to vote except that he
is unable to present one of the forms of identification listed above, he shall
be allowed to vote after signing a statement, subject to felony penalties for
false statements pursuant to § 24.2-1016, that he is the named registered
voter who he claims to be.
A voter may be accompanied into the voting booth by his child age fifteen or younger.
C. If the current residence address stated by the voter is different from the address shown on the registered voter list, the officer of election shall furnish the voter with a change of address form prescribed by the State Board. Upon its completion, the voter shall sign the prescribed form, subject to felony penalties for making false statements pursuant to § 24.2-1016, which the officer of election shall then place in an envelope provided for such forms for transmission to the general registrar who shall then transfer or cancel the registration of such voter pursuant to Chapter 4 of this title.
D. At the time the voter is asked his full name and current residence address, the officer of election shall ask any voter for whom an identification number other than a social security number is recorded on the registered voter list if he presently has a social security number and note that number on the list if the voter is able to provide it. Any social security numbers so provided shall be entered by the general registrar in the voter's record on the voter registration system.