Chap. 364.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 32 of an Act Enti-
titled an Act to Provide for a General Election, approved May 11th,
1870, and Further Amended by an Act Approved May 19th, 1870.

Approved March 26, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-two of an act entitled an “act to provide for a
general election, passed May eleventh, eighteen hundred and
seventy, and further amended and approved May nineteenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy,” be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

§ 32. The judge to whom any ballot is delivered, shall, upon
receipt thereof, pronounce with an audible voice the name of
the person from whom the ballot is received, and if the name
of the person is found on the registration book, and there be
no objection made, the said judge shall, without opening said
ballot, or permitting the same to be examined (except to ascer-
tain whether it is a single ballot), deposit the same in the bal-
lot box; whereupon the name of the elector shall be checked
on the registration book by one of the judges and entered by
the clerks of election on the poll books and correctly num-
bered in accordance with the number of electors theretofore
recorded: provided, whenever a registered voter has changed
his place of residence from one voting district to another, if he
has a certificate showing that he was duly registered in his
former voting district, and that his name has, since his removal,
been erased from the registration books of said voting district,
it shall be sufficient evidence to entitle him to vote in the dis-
trict in which he resides, and his name shall be registered on
the registration book by the registrar if he be present, or by
one of the judges of election: provided further, that in cities
and towns containing over two thousand inhabitants, the name
of such person shall only be entered by the registrar the days
named in the seventh section of an act to amend and re-enact
sections five, seven, nine and twelve of an act approved April
twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled an act to pro-
vide for the general registration of voters, approved fourteenth
day of March, 1872.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.