Chap. 66.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 155, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to the preparing and printing of election ballots. {H 129]

Approved February 26, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section one hundred fifty-five, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, be amended and re-enacted, 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, as
soon as practicable after the secretary is officially notified of the names of
the candidates in any election, and at least thirty days prior to any pri-
mary or general election, or in the case of a special election at least thirty
days prior to the election or as soon thereafter as possible to cause to be
printed a number of ballots equal to one and one-quarter times the entire
registered vote of the county or city. In the magisterial districts of a
county or wards of a city, only the names of the candidates to be voted
for in the district or ward shall be placed on the 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 provi-
sions of the law, printed in black ink, immediately below the office for
which they have so announced their candidacy, in due and orderly suc-
cession, and the names on the ballot shall be in clear print, in the same
order and each name in a separate line, and the type used in printing the
ballots shall be plain roman type, not smaller than pica. Immediately
to the left and on the same line with the name of each candidate shall be
printed a square, not less than one-quarter, nor more than one-half an
inch in size, printed thus:

[] JOHN DOE

In elections for President and Vice-President, immediately to the left
and on the same line with the name of each candidate for President shall
be printed a like square, but no square shall be printed on the same line
with the name of the elector of any candidate for Vice-President or Presi-

ent.

Hereafter it shall be the duty of the 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 officer 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 that office.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.