CHAPTER 581

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 24-216 and 24-252 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the preparation and form of and the insertion of names on
official ballots.

[H 599]

Approved April 3, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 24-216 and 24-252 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows: |

§ 24-216. In submitting proposed amendments to the Constitution to
the people, the same shall be printed on a separate ballot; and in submitting
to the electors the question set forth in Section one hundred ninety-seven
of the Constitution, such question shall be printed on a separate ballot;
provided, that the names of all candidates for President and Vice Presi-
dent and for Presidential Electors shall be printed on a separate ballot;
provided, further, that the names of all persons voted for by an elector
shall be on * a ballot; and the form thereof shall be the same in all places
when the same persons shall be voted for * to fill the same office.

§ 24-252. Insertion of names on ballots.—It shall be lawful for any
voter to place on the official ballot the name of any person in his own
handwriting thereon and to vote for such other person for any office for
which he may desire to vote and mark the same by a check (\/) or cross
(< or +) mark or a line (—) immediately preceding the name inserted.
Provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall affect
the operation of § 24-251 of the Code of Virginia. No ballot, with a name
or names placed thereon in violation of this section, shall be counted for
such person. .