Gum Spring, Virginia Public Records

Virginia residents can register to vote online through the Virginia Department of Elections website at vote.virginia.gov, which provides online voter registration, registration status lookup, and absentee ballot applications. To register, applicants must be U.S. Citizens, Virginia residents, at least 18 years old by the next general election, and not currently declared mentally incompetent by a court or convicted of a felony unless rights have been restored. The voter registration deadline in Virginia is 22 days before any election. Virginia requires a valid form of identification to vote in person, including a Virginia driver's license, U.S. Passport, employee ID, student ID from a Virginia school, or other approved photo ID; voters without ID may sign a statement and cast a provisional ballot. Because the community is unincorporated with no municipal government, there are no city council or mayoral elections specific to the area. Instead, residents vote in Goochland County Board of Supervisors elections, state legislative races, and federal elections. Local residents fall within one of these supervisor districts. Residents can find their assigned polling location by using the polling place lookup tool at vote.virginia.gov or by contacting the Goochland County elections office. Virginia does not have U.S.Current federal, state, and local election schedules, ballot contests, candidate filings, and certified results for Gum voters are published by the Virginia Department of Elections (https://www.elections.virginia.gov/). Virginia election records that are publicly accessible include voter registration lists (without birth dates or social security numbers) available for purchase under Virginia Code § 24.2-405 for lawful purposes, campaign finance reports filed with the Virginia Department of Elections and searchable at apps.elections.virginia.gov/SBE_CSV/CFREPORTS, candidate filings and ballot information, and precinct-level election results published by the State Board of Elections and the Goochland County elections office. Absentee voting in Virginia is available to any registered voter without providing an excuse, as Virginia adopted no-excuse absentee voting in 2020. Voters may request absentee ballots online through the state portal, by mail, email, fax, or in person at the Goochland County elections office. The absentee ballot application deadline is 11 days before the election for mail ballots, though in-person absentee voting at the elections office is available up to the Saturday before Election Day. Virginia also offers early voting at designated locations beginning 45 days before the election.