CHAPTER 488

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 24-319 and 24-321 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to absent voters so as to provide for absent voting in second
primaries and to change the time within which applications for ballots
shall be made.

[S 342]

Approved April 2, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 24-319 and 24-321 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 24-319.—Any duly qualified voter who will, in the regular and
orderly course of his business, profession, occupation, or other personal
affairs, or while on vacation or during his attendance as a student at any
school or institution of learning, be absent from the city, town, or from
the precinct in which he is entitled to vote, if in a county, and any such
voter who may be physically unable to go in person to the polls on -the day
of election, may vote in any primary, second primary, special or general
election, in accordance with the provisions of the following sections of this
chapter, as amended.

§ 24-321.—He shall make application in writing for a ballot to the
registrar of his precinct, not less than five nor more than sixty days
prior to the primary, special or general election in which he desires to vote
if he be within the confines of the United States. Such application shall be
made not less than five days nor more than ninety days, if he be in Hawaii,
Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, or in territory over which the United States
has no jurisdiction.

In case of any second primary such application shall be made not less
than three days nor more than thirty-five days prior to such second

primary.