---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 9"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "9"
heading: "Voting for Representatives"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/9"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Election of Senators and Representatives"
---

# §9. Voting for Representatives


All votes for Representatives in Congress must be by written or printed ballot, or voting machine the use of which has been duly authorized by the State law; and all votes received or recorded contrary to this section shall be of no effect.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 27; Feb. 14, 1899, ch. 154, 30 Stat. 836.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 27 derived from acts Feb. 28, 1871, ch. 99, § 19, 16 Stat. 440, and May 30, 1872, ch. 239, 17 Stat. 192.