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VIRGINIA STATUTES AND CODES
24.2-626 - Governing bodies shall acquire electronic voting or counting systems.
§ 24.2-626. Governing bodies shall acquire electronic voting or countingsystems.
The governing body of each county and city shall provide for the use ofelectronic voting or counting systems, of a kind approved by the State Board,at every precinct and for all elections held in the county, the city, or anypart of the county or city.
Each county and city governing body shall purchase, lease, lease purchase, orotherwise acquire such systems and may provide for the payment therefor inthe manner it deems proper. Systems of different kinds may be adopted for useand be used in different precincts of the same county or city, or within aprecinct or precincts in a county or city, subject to the approval of theState Board.
On and after July 1, 2007, no county or city shall acquire any directrecording electronic machine (DRE) for use in elections in the county or cityexcept as provided herein:
1. DREs acquired prior to July 1, 2007, may be used in elections in thecounty or city for the remainder of their useful life.
2. Any locality that acquired DREs prior to July 1, 2007, may acquire DREs ona temporary basis to conduct an election when the existing DRE inventory isinsufficient to conduct the election because all or part of its inventory isunder lock or seal as required by § 24.2-659.
3. Any locality may acquire DREs from another locality within theCommonwealth, from among their existing inventories, for the expressedpurpose of providing accessible voting equipment as required by § 24.2-626.1.The local electoral board shall notify the State Board when acquiring any DREunder this provision and shall certify to the State Board that the DREacquired under this provision is necessary to meet accessible votingrequirements.
(Code 1950, § 242-291; 1970, c. 462, § 24.1-203; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 119;1972, c. 620; 1974, c. 428; 1976, c. 616; 1982, c. 650; 1985, c. 458; 1987,c. 129; 1993, c. 641; 1996, c. 258; 2000, c. 280; 2007, cc. 939, 943; 2009,cc. 751, 759; 2010, cc. 356, 533.)