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E. Ensure that a sign or poster is posted in a visible location in the office notifying clients that the office provides voter registration services. Posters are found at https://fusion.dss.virginia.gov/bp/BP-Home/VOTER-REGISTRATION. You may print copies of the posters to display or order posters from the State Board of Elections.

IV. Voter Registration Forms

A. Voter Registration Application - in Virginia, one voter registration application form will be used to serve a twofold purpose:

1. the voter registration application will be completed by the customer with necessary assistance from local agency staff during the application/review process and left at the local agency for transmittal to the local general registrar; or,

2. for customers who do not wish to complete the voter registration during the application process, they may take a voter registration form for mail-in registration.

V. Individuals Required to be Offered Registration Services – In order to be offered voter registration services, an individual must:

A. Be a member of the TANF assistance unit/SNAP household/Medicaid family unit.

B. Be at least 18 years old by the next general election. General elections are held in all localities on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November or on the first Tuesday in May to fill offices regularly scheduled by law to be filled at those times. If any question arises as to whether the individual will turn 18 before the next general election, complete the registration application and the local registrar will determine if the individual may be registered.

C. Be present in the office at the time of the application/review interview or when a change of address is reported (if a change of address is not reported in person, a registration application will be sent to the individual upon request for mail-in purposes.) Any change in household/assistance unit/Medicaid family unit composition that does not occur concurrent with an application/review or change of address will be handled at the next scheduled review.

D. Have had voting rights restored if they have ever been convicted of a felony.

E. Have had capacity restored if they have ever been adjudicated incapacitated (mentally incompetent) by a court.

Any individual accompanying the customer to the local agency who is not a member of the assistance unit/household (including payees and authorized representatives) will not be offered voter registration services by the local agency; however, a registration application is to be provided to the non-unit member upon request for mail-in purposes.

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