Bill > HB630

Introduced Session

Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Expands the option to use ranked choice voting from only elections for county board of supervisors and city councils to any local governing body. The bill requires the State Board of Elections to provide standards and to approve vote tabulating software for use with existing voting systems in elections conducted by ranked choice voting. The bill provides for copying damaged or defective ballots that cannot be properly counted by electronic voting systems. The bill allows localities to request risk-limiting audits of elections conducted using ranked choice voting and provides that no such election may be included in any random drawing required to satisfy the general requirements for risk-limiting audits. The bill specifies that the State Board is required to produce generalized voter education materials on ranked choice voting and is also permitted to create and modify recount procedures to the extent necessary to accommodate a recount of an election. The bill directs the Department of Elections to review the testing and approval framework for voting equipment in the Commonwealth and submit a report of such review no later than the first day of the 2027 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Finally, the bill repeals the 2031 expiration of the option to use ranked choice voting in elections, making such option permanent.

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Katrina Callsen (D)*,  Jessica Anderson (D),  Bonita Anthony (D),  Elizabeth Bennett-Parker (D),  Nadarius Clark (D),  Laura Jane Cohen (D),  Joshua Cole (D),  Rae Cousins (D),  Lindsey Dougherty (D),  Mark Downey (D),  Jackie Glass (D),  J.R. Henson (D),  Phil Hernandez (D),  Patrick Hope (D),  Fernando Martinez (D),  John Chilton McAuliff (D),  Adele McClure (D),  Sam Rasoul (D),  Irene Shin (D),  Shelly Simonds (D),  J.J. Singh (D),  Kathy Tran (D), 

Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote) (on 03/06/2026)

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