Chap. 498.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 155 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended, relating to printing ballots. [S B 352]

Approved March 26, 1928

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one hundred and fifty-five of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 155. It shall be the duty of the electoral boards of the sev-
eral counties and cities of this State, as soon as may be practicable,
after the secretary shall be officially notified of the names of the candi-
dates in any election, and at least thirty days prior to any primary or
general election, to cause to be printed a number of ballots equal to
twice the entire registered vote of the said county or city. In magis-
terial 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
ballots 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 dutv of the
said electoral boards, in preparing the ballots for general, special and
primary elections, to cause fo 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 candi-
dates who may be voted for for that office.