CHAPTER 129
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 24-265 of the Code of 1950, relating
to counting votes, so as to allow the designation of certain
clerks to assist the judges of clection in the counting of votes.
[S231 ]
Approved March 9, 1950

Le it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 24-265 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 24-265. How votes counted and returns made.—After the
poll books are signed and attested, the judges, and any clerk or
clerks designated by the judges for the purposc, shall, in the pres-
ence of such persons as shall be present under §§ 24-260 and 24-261,
proceed to count and ascertain the number of votes cast for each
- person voted for; and the tickets or ballots shall be distinctly read,
and as soon as read and canvassed shall be strung by one of the
judges on a string, and the clerk shall set down on the poll books,
next after the certificate of the judges at the foot of the list of
electors as the returns of the election, the name of every person
voted for, written in full length, the office for which such person
received such votes, and the number of votes he received, the num-
ber being expressed in figures and also at full length in writing,
in accordance with the form prescribed in § 24-257, which returns,
when so made out, shall be signed and attested as provided in that
section, but no person other than the judges of the election shall
handle the ballots.