---
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](/usc/2/4556.md?p=1) 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.