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General Registrar's Duties
In summary, your local General Registrar's duties include but are not limited to:
Maintaining the office of the General Registrar and establishing and maintaining additional places for voter registration; Participating in programs to educate the general public concerning registration and encouraging registration by the genral public; Providing the appropriate forms for applications to register and to obtain the information necessary to complete the application; Accepting registration applications or request for transfer or changes of address submitted for a resident of any other county or city in the Commonwealth; Preserving order at and in the vicinity of the place of registration; Maintaining the offiicial registration records for his/her county or city in the Commonwealth; Preserving order at and in the vicinity of the place of registration; Maintaining the official registration records for his/her county or city; Verifying the accuracy of the pollbooks provided for each election by the State Board of Elections and making the pollbooks available to precints; Maintaining accurate and current registration records and complying with the requirements of the Code of Virginia, Title 24.2-Elections, for the transfer, inactivation, and cancellation of voter registrations; review any petition required by political parties in its nomination process to determine whether those signing the petition are registered voters with active status.
Voting in Virginia
To be eligible to register to vote in Virginia a person must:
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Be a resident of Virginia ( A person who has come to Virginia for temporary purposes and intends to return to another state is not considered a resident for voting purposes)
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Be a U.S. Citizen
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Be 18 years old (Any person who is 17 years old and will be eighteen years of age at the next general election shall be permitted to register in advance and also vote in any intervening primary or special election)
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Does not claim the right to vote in any other state
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Not currently declared mentally incompetent by a court of law
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If convicted of a felony, your right to vote must have been restored
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