CHAPTER 537

An Act to amend and reenact § 24-23.1, as amended, and §§ 24-28.2 and
24-28.8, of the Code of Virginia, relating to waiver of poll tax regis-
tration by certain voters.

[H 580]

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 24-23.1, as amended, and §§ 24-23.2 and 24-23.3, of the Code of
Virginia, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 24-23.1. Whenever a majority of the judges of election of any pre-
cinct are satisfied, by such evidence as they may deem proper, that a person
offering to vote in person in any election, is in active service as a member
of the armed forces of the United States *, and that such person is other-
wise qualified to vote, they shall permit such person to vote in such election
(and also in any second primary election that may be held in connection
therewith) without being required to register or to pay any poll tax; pro-
vided, however, that such person shall execute and file with the judges of
election an affidavit, subscribed and sworn to before a judge of election,
substantially as follows: .

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(street and number or place of residence therein) and am now in active
service in the armed forces of the United States; that I am twenty-one
years of age; and that by exercising the privilege of voting I acknowledge
and accept all of the responsibilities and obligations of full citizenship of
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Judge of Election”.

The affidavit shall be returned to the clerk’s office with the ballots
and shall be preserved by the clerk as a public record until such time as the
judge of the circuit or corporation court of the county or city in whose
clerk’s office the affidavit is filed shall order the same to be destroyed.

§ 24-23.2. Whenever a majority of the judges are likewise satisfied
that a person offering to vote in person in any election, including a primary
election, has been discharged from active service as a member of the
armed forces of the United States * on or after the first day of the calendar
year preceding the year in which such election occurs, and that such dis-
charge was not dishonorable, and that such person is registered and other-
wise qualified to vote, they shall permit such person to vote in said election
(and also in any second primary election that may be held in connection
therewith) without the payment of any poll tax.

§ 24-23.3. Whenever a majority of the judges are likewise satisfied
that the discharge from active service occurred * at a time when the regis-
tration books were closed for the election, at which the person offers to
vote, such person’s right to vote without being required to register shall be
deemed to have accrued while he was still in such active service and the
person shall be entitled to vote in said election, even though not then regis-
tered.