Virginia Senate Bill 771 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-01-30 - Continued to 2019 in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Absentee voting; counting military and overseas absentee ballots received after close of polls on election day. Provides that absentee ballots cast by military and overseas absentee voters that are (i) received after the close of the polls on any election day but before 5:00 p.m. on the second business day before the State Board meets to ascertain the results of the election and (ii) postmarked on or before the date of such election are to be counted if the voter is found entitled to vote. The bill provides that a postmark includes any other official indicia of confirmation of mailing by the United States Postal Service or other postal or delivery service. Under current law, such ballots cast by military and overseas absentee voters would be counted in this manner regardless of the date of any postmark, but only if the absentee ballot had been requested on or before, but not sent by, the deadline for making absentee ballots available.

Absentee voting; counting military and overseas absentee ballots received after close of polls.

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2018-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2019 in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-30	Senate	Continued to 2019 in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 0-N)
2018-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2018-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101815D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	709	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB771
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB771+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S08V0077+SB0771