CHAPTER 330

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 24-290.3 and 24-290.4 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to how groups may submit names of electors so as to
change the period of time in which petitions may be filed and relating
to how and when ballots to be printed.

(S 132]

Approved March 29, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 24-290.3 and 24-290.4 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 24-290.3. Any group of qualified voters of not less than one thou-
sand in number, not constituting a political party as defined in § 24-290.2,
may have the names of electors selected by them printed upon the official
ballot to be used in the election of electors for President and Vice President
by filing a petition so requesting with the State Board of Elections not
less than * fifty days before said election. Said petition, which shall be
signed by said voters and the signatures to which shall be witnessed by
a person whose affidavit to that effect is attached to said petition, shall
set forth the names of the electors selected by such voters, the party name
under which they desire the electors so selected to be listed on the ballot,
and the names of the candidates for President and Vice President for
whom such electors are expected to vote in the Electoral College. The
party name selected by any such group of qualified voters shall not be
identical with the name of any political party as defined in § 24-290.2.

§ 24-290.4. It shall thereupon be the duty of the State Board of
Elections immediately to so notify the secretary of the electoral board of
each county and city of the State, and to certify to each said secretary the
form of official ballot which shall be uniform throughout the State. It shall
then become the duty of the electoral board of each of the several counties
and cities within the State, at least forty days preceding such election, to
cause to be printed on the uniform official ballot provided for in this sec-
tion, and in chapter 11 of this title, the name of each said political party
and the party name specified by the persons naming electors by petition,
and underneath or below the party name in parenthesis the words “Electors
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with the blanks filled 1 in with the names of the candidates for President and
Vice President for whom said candidates for electors are expected to vote
in the Electoral College, after which the names of the electors nominated by
said political parties or groups or petitioners shall follow; and to print a
square preceding the name of each such party and party designation.