Its duties include maintaining a voter registration system, ensuring fair and secure elections, overseeing campaign finance disclosure, and certificating voter equipment in coordination with Virginia's 113 local election offices.

The SBE promoted proper administration of election laws and voter registration.

ELECT is responsible for the SBE's administrative and programmatic operations and discharges the board's duties consistent with delegated authority.

[3] The department is led by a five-member body, the State Board of Elections.

[2][4][5] State law provides that, "The State Board, through the Department of Elections, shall supervise and coordinate the work of the county and city electoral boards and of the registrars to obtain uniformity in their practices and proceedings and legality and purity in all elections.