Chap. 428.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 155 of the Code of Virginia
as amended by an act approved March 16, 1920, relating to ballots. {[H 266}

Approved March 21, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one hundred and fifty-five of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an
act approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 155. How and when ballots printed.—It shall be the duty
of the electoral boards of the several counties and cities of this State,
within thirty days preceding each election, to cause to be printed a
number of ballots equal to twice the entire registered vote of the said
county or city. In magisterial districts of a county or wards of a city,
only the names of the candidates to be voted for in said district or ward
shall be placed on the said ballots. These ballots shall be white paper
tickets without any distinguishing mark or symbol, shall contain the
names of all the candidates complying with the provisions of the law,
printed in black ink, immediately below the office for which they have
so announced their candidacy, in due and orderly succession, and the
names on said ballot shall be in clear print, in the same order and each
name in a separate line, and the type used in printing said ballots shall
be plain Roman type, not smaller than pica. Hereafter it shall be the
duty of the said electoral boards, in preparing the ballots for general,
special and primary elections, to cause to be printed in small type,
immediately below the title of any office for which there appear on the
ballots the names of more than one candidate, a note stating the number
of candidates who may be voted for for that office.