Summary: Elections; form of ballot; party identificationof candidates on ballots; constitutional officers. Extends toelections for constitutional officers the requirement that ballotsidentify the nominating political party for party candidates andidentify independent candidates as such. Currently, this requirementapplies only to federal, statewide, and General Assembly elections.

Summary: Campaign finance; mandatory electronic filingfor all candidates. Requires all candidates to file their campaignfinance reports electronically with the State Board of Elections.

Summary: Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications; disclaimer requirements. Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and messages advocating for the passage or defeat of a referendum. The bill also requires an advertisement that is an independent expenditure or expressly advocates for the passage or defeat of a referendum to contain a disclaimer providing the names of the advertisement sponsor's three largest contributors or individuals representing a contributor that is not an individual.

Summary: Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee for his personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but excepts from "personal use" the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. Any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to provide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the Attorney General's opinion and any regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections.

Summary: Elections; removal of officers; recall elections; petition. Provides for the removal of certain elected officers and officers appointed to elected offices by recall referendum. The bill requires a petition for recall be signed by 30 percent of the total number of votes cast at the last election for the office for which a recall is sought.

Summary: Elections; lists of persons voting at elections;creation of searchable public lists prohibited. Prohibits therecipient of a list of registered voters from publishing on the Internetany of the information contained in such list as a list, database,or other similar searchable format or providing information containedin a list of registered voters to a third party for such purpose.