Absentee voters in Virginia will almost certainly not need to get a witness signature on their ballots in order to be counted in elections during the pandemic, according to a temporary agreement announced Tuesday between the League of Women Voters of Virginia and the state’s attorney general.

The agreement, which must still be accepted by a district judge, temporarily suspends a requirement for absentee voters to find a witness to watch them open, mark and fold their ballots, and then sign the envelopes.

Attorney General Mark Herring agreed not to enforce the witness requirement for the upcoming June primary, to issue guidance on how local election officials can count ballots without witness signatures, and to update voter instructions.

Deb Wake, president of the League of Women Voters of Virginia, said she was satisfied the law would protect the vote in June, but is worried about the election in November.

“Perhaps we need to look at changing the law in Virginia,” she said. Wake said Virginia was one of a few states to require a witness signature, “and it serves more as a voter suppression tool than a fraud deterrent.”

Virginia’s absentee voting requirements are stricter than others in the region.

On Tuesday, Maryland experimented with sending mail-in ballots to all eligible voters in a special election to replace the late Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings. By Tuesday afternoon, nearly 110,00 out of 482,000 ballots were cast by mail. Polls were still open and ballots postmarked Tuesday would also be counted.

Both Virginia and D.C. require voters to request mail-in ballots.

Virginia lawmakers recently eliminated a requirement for absentee voters to state a reason for requesting a ballot, but that goes into effect in July 2020, after Virginia’s primary. Instead, voters who would like to mail in their ballots in upcoming town and primary elections because of the coronavirus must state the reason “2A My disability or illness,” according to the Virginia Department of Elections.