                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

STATE BOARD TO MEET AND MAKE STATEMENT AS TO NUMBER OF VOTES (§ 24.2-679)

A. The State Board shall meet by the first Monday in December to ascertain the
results of the November election. If a majority of the Board is not present or
if, for any other reason, the Board is unable to ascertain the results on that
day, the meeting shall stand adjourned from day to day for not more than three
days until a quorum is present and the Board has ascertained the results as
provided in this section.
			The Board shall examine the certified abstracts on file in its office and
make statements of the whole number of votes given at any such election for
members of the General Assembly, Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney
General, members of the United States Congress and electors of President and
Vice President of the United States, and any officer shared by more than one
county or city, or any combination thereof, or for so many of such officers as
have been voted for at the election.			The statement shall show, for each office
and each county, city, and election district, the whole number of votes given to
each candidate and to any other person elected to office. The Board members
shall certify the statements to be correct and sign the statements. The Board
shall then determine those persons who received the greatest number of votes and
have been duly elected to each office. The Board members shall endorse and
subscribe on such statements a certificate of their determination. The Board
shall record each certified statement and determination in a suitable book to be
kept by it in its office.

B. The State Board shall meet as soon as possible after it receives the returns
for any special election held at a time other than the November general election
to ascertain the results of the special election in the manner prescribed in
subsection A. If the returns have not been received within seven days of the
election, the Board shall meet and adjourn from day to day until it receives the
returns, ascertains the results, and makes its determination.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 24-285, 24-286, 24-287, 24-289; 1958, c. 605; 1962, c.
536; 1970, c. 462, §§ 24.1-154, 24.1-155; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 206; 1974, c.
428; 1980, c. 639; 1983, c. 461; 1993, c. 641; 2015, c. 740; 2022, cc. 443, 444.