CHAPTER 593

An Act to amend and reenact § 24-245 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to manner of voting.
[H 740]

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
an That § 24-245 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 24-245. The elector shall then take the official ballot and retire to
the voting booth; provided that a person with a physical disability render-
ing it unduly burdensome for him to enter the polling place may be
handed a ballot outside the polling place but within one hundred feet
thereof by one of the judges, and in his presence but in a secret manner,
mark and return the same to such judge who shall proceed as provided in
§ 24-247. He shall then mark immediately preceding the name of each
candidate he wishes to vote for a check (\/) or a cross (xX or +) mark
or a line (—) in the square provided for such purpose, leaving the square
preceding the name of each candidate he does not wish to vote for
unmarked.