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Elections in Virginia are authorized under Article I of the Virginia State Constitution, sections 5–6, and Article V which establishes elections for the state-level officers, cabinet, and legislature. Article VII section 4 establishes the election of county-level officers.
The Constitution of the United States recognizes that the states have the power to set voting requirements. A few states allowed free Black men to vote, and New Jersey also included unmarried and widowed women who owned property. [1] Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying White males (about 6% of the population). [2]
Virginia becomes the first state to allow in-person early voting in the 2024 election cycle, learn if your home state has absentee ballots available and if there are restrictions.
Early voting is set to start Friday in Virginia, where every seat in the state legislature is on the ballot in a high-stakes election with major implications for 2024.
1966: Tax payment and wealth requirements for voting in state elections are prohibited by the Supreme Court in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. 1971: Adults aged 18 through 20 are granted the right to vote by the Twenty-sixth Amendment. This was enacted in response to Vietnam ...
Virginia Republicans on Tuesday launched an early and absentee voting push ahead of this fall's legislative elections, an initiative intended to boost ballot access measures that GOP lawmakers in ...
In states that permit early voting, and have voter registration, the prospective voter must be registered before casting a vote. Some historical registration requirements, including poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses, were part of the systematic disenfranchisement of African Americans in the Jim Crow South.
Saturday marked the last day of in-person early voting in Virginia before Election Day on Tuesday and many voters across the Commonwealth showed up to cast their ballot.