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rest,” Mrs. Kilby said.
According to Susan FitzHugh, an official with the State Board of Elections in Richmond, it is not necessary that the full legal name of the candidate be written in. “If it is a serious write-in campaign, the candidate has been campaigning under one name. It should be pretty clear to the election officials who the voter is indicating as their choice,” she said during a telephone interview Monday.
She added that the only time confusion might arise is if the candidate has a father or son by the same name who is also a registered voter in Rappahannock County. In that case, she said, it would be necessary for the voters to include the suffix “Jr.” or “Sr.” on the ballot. That, however, is not the case with either write-in campaign this year.
Ms. Fitz-Hugh said that legal challenges to ballots which did not bear the full legal name of the write-in candidate would likely not be upheld, as long as it is reasonably clear who the voter’s choice was when the ballot was marked. Virginia law requires that the full legal name of formally announced candidates appear on the ballot, but there is no such requirement for write-in candidates.
She confirmed Mrs. Kilby’s instructions, stressing that along with the name being written in the proper area, a box must be drawn in and then marked next to the name of the write-in candidate by anyone casting a vote for that person.
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