VA SB169

Establishes specific deadlines for filing legal challenges to candidate ballot eligibility: at least 90 days before general elections, 65 days before primaries, 70 days before special elections held with general elections, and 55 days before other special elections

Requires challenges to be filed in circuit court and decided no later than 10 days before absentee voting begins, with appeals filed within 7 days and given docket precedence

Mandates that district-based election challenges be filed in the circuit court jurisdiction with the largest share of registered voters in that district

Bars challenges to general election candidates based on facts that existed before their primary election and could have been raised at that time

Preserves the ability to challenge an elected official's qualification to serve under the Virginia Constitution outside of an election cycle