Chap. 389.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 84 of the Code of Virginia.
relating to the appointment of electoral boards. and the judges, clerks, and
registrars of election. [S 212}

Approved March 31, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section eighty-four of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 84. Circuit court to appoint electoral boards: term; vacan-
cies; board to appoint judges, clerks and registrars of election; qualif-
cation.— There shall be in each county and city an electoral board, com
posed of three members, who shall be appointed by the circuit cour
of the county or the corporation court of the city, or the judge of the
court in vacation. In the appointment of the electoral board representa.
tion as far as practicable shall be given to each of the two political
parties which, at the general election next preceding their appointment,
cast the highest and the next highest number of votes, and a majority
of the electoral board shall be from the political party which cast the high-
est number of votes in the State for governor at the last preceding gub-
ernatorial election. The three members of the board who are in ofhce
when this Code takes effect, shall continue in office until their respective
terms expire; to-wit March first, nineteen hundred nineteen, March first
nineteen hundred twenty, and March first, nineteen hundred twenty-
one. During the month of February in each year, as the terms of the
members of the board respectively expire, their successors shall be
appointed for a term of three years. Any vacancy occurring in any
board shall be filled by the same authority for the unexpired term. The
term of the electoral boards appointed under this section shall com-
mence on the first of March next succeeding their appointment. The
members of the board shall qualify before the first of March next suc-
ceeding their appointment by taking and subscribing the oaths required
to be taken by county and city officers. Each electoral board shall ap-
point the judges, clerks, and registrars of election for its city or county,
including the towns therein; and in appointing the judges of electicn
representation, as far as possible, shall be given to each of the twe
political parties which, at the general election next preceding their
appointment, cast the highest and next highest number of votes. No
person, nor the deputy of any person, holding any office or post oi
profit or emolument under the United States government, or who is
in the employment of such government, or holding any elective office
of profit or trust in the State, or in any county, city or town thereof,
shall be appointed a member of the electoral board or a registrar or
judge of election.