The Town of Jarratt, VA - Election Reminders!

Hopefully everyone is having an awesome morning (yay, early morning attempts at reminders for the voting public!) and an even better voting experience.

Quick links to previous posts:

1. Registrars: If you believe you have the right to vote in the Jarratt town election, but are denied, contact your registrar to make certain.
2. Ballot How-To's: The reasons why you should always vote for six (6) members of Council.
3. Write-Ins - and the names of two known write-in candidates.

Need help in other areas?  Here are a few pointers:

• Polling stations open at 6:00 am, and close at 7:00 pm.
• If you are running late, made it there before 7:00 pm, and there is a line, all persons in said line will be able to vote.  If you make it to the line at 7:01 pm, you will be denied.
• If you are not registered to vote yet, you may do so at the polling station ON election day in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
• If you are told otherwise by someone outside the polling station, request their name and let poll officers know that you were told by said person that you were not able to register to vote inside.
• If you have a SAMPLE BALLOT, you are allowed to take it into the building with you.
  
• You are NOT allowed to hand out sample ballots while inside the building, nor are you allowed to do so - or pander for votes - anywhere within a forty (40) foot radius of the door to said building.  Most places have this forty (40) foot boundary marked.
• "Ballot Selfies" are completely legal in Virginia -- If you wish to take a picture of the ballot you have filled out, you may do so behind your partition where you have filled in your choices.
• Virginia Code can be very vague [1VAC20-60-30]: "Electronic Devices" are permitted in polling stations - what you do with them, depending on who you are and why you are there, will decide if you are stepping out-of-bounds.
• You are NOT allowed to take pictures of anyone else's ballot, nor any of the private information on the roll books used by the poll workers.
• Be careful with your choices, as any majority of the Election Officers present can use this code's GRAY AREA to dismiss you for your use of said "Electronic Devices."
• LEAVE YOUR WEAPONS AT HOME.  In Virginia, it is illegal to carry a weapon into a polling station, with some VERY minor exceptions (review subsection F). [Clause iv, subsection A: § 24.2-604].
• The use of LOUDSPEAKERS is prohibited within 300 feet of the polling station [§ 24-2.605]; such use is viewed as a class 4 misdemeanor.
• If you believe you require assistance due to physical disability or inability to read; if you speak and/or read a language other than English and require a translator; if you need help due to blindness, you may request an officer of election -- or another person of your choosing -- to help you fill out your ballot (§ 24.2-649).  Your signature on paper requesting such is required if they are to assist you behind the booth/partition while you are voting.
• If you are disabled, injured - or over the age of 65 - and unable to make it inside the building, you have the ability to fill your ballot outside of the polling station [§ 24.2-649.1], provided you are within 150 feet of the polling station entrance.  This will be accommodated by an officer of the election.  A phone number should be posted outside the polling station so you can easily contact such and have things move smoothly.

Hopefully all of these items listed will help you in today's election procedures - make your voices heard, and go vote!

- Jarratt, VA, USA:

For the People.