West Virginia Legislature
Code of West Virginia, 1931
Official Recodification - Enacted December 31, 1930 - Effective January 1, 1931
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3-2-6 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS The Electorate; Registration Voters Affidavit Showing Right to Registration; Procedure Where Marked “Challenged” If the registrars, after examination, are not satisfied of the right of any applicant to be registered, they shall require of such applicant an affidavit in wri… Proofed
3-2-7 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS The Electorate; Registration Voters Correction of Registration by Registrars; Return of Lists; Furnishing Copy of List The registrars, after having completed the registration, shall, for the purpose of amending, correcting and completing such registration, sit together at some c… Proofed
3-2-8 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS The Electorate; Registration Voters Transfer of Registration From One Precinct to Another Any voter who shall have been registered in any precinct as in this article provided, and who shall have removed from such precinct to another precinct in the s… Proofed
3-2-9 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS The Electorate; Registration Voters Compensation of Registrars Each registrar shall receive as compensation for his services under this article the sum of ten cents for each name registered, to be allowed by the county cour… Proofed
3-2-10 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS The Electorate; Registration Voters Correction of Registration by County Court; Appeals; Further Work by Registrars; Special Elections It shall be the duty of the county court of each county to convene in regular or special session on the third Tuesday next preceding any and every election to b… Proofed
3-2-11 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS The Electorate; Registration Voters Furnishing Registration Lists to Election Commissioners; Special Elections The clerk of the county court shall furnish one of such registration books, filed with him by the registrars, to the election commissioners of the respective vo… Proofed
3-2-12 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS The Electorate; Registration Voters Sessions of Courts in Registration Cases It shall be the duty of the circuit court and the supreme court of appeals to hold such sessions as may be necessary to determine any cases involving the regist… Proofed
3-3-1 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Political Party Committees Political Party Defined Any affiliation of voters representing any principle or organization which, at the last preceding general election, polled for its candidate for governor a leas… Proofed
3-3-2 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Political Party Committees Party Committees in Office The members of all state, congressional, senatorial, judicial, and county executive committees for political parties in office at the time this article becomes … Proofed
3-3-3 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Political Party Committees Executive Committees of Political Parties At the May primary in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-two and in every fourth year thereafter, the voters of each political party, in each senatorial distr… Proofed
3-3-4 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Political Party Committees Powers of State Executive Committee; Central or Subcommittees The state executive committee of each party may make such rules for the government of such party, not inconsistent with law, as may be deemed expedient; and it … Proofed
3-3-5 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Political Party Committees Members of National Party Committee The members of the national party executive committee of any political party, to which the State is entitled under the national organization and the rules and r… Proofed
3-3-6 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Political Party Committees Other Party or Group Committees The members of any political party which, at the last preceding general election, polled, for its candidate for governor, fewer, than ten per cent of the total … Proofed
3-4-1 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates May and August Primaries Primary elections shall be held at the voting place in each of the voting precincts in the State for the purposes set forth in this article, as follows: On th… Proofed
3-4-2 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Persons Entitled to Vote At any primary election, any person possessing the qualifications of a voter, under sections one and two, article two of this chapter, who shall have been regis… Proofed
3-4-3 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Delegates to National Convention; Election At each May primary there shall be elected by the voters of each political party of the State the number of persons to which the party is entitled as delegates … Proofed
3-4-4 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Presidential Preference In presidential election years, in addition to the candidates hereinbefore required to be nominated at the general primary election, the qualified voters of eac… Proofed
3-4-5 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Nomination of Candidates for Offices At each primary election, the candidate or candidates of each political party for all offices to be filled at the ensuing general election by the voters of the … Proofed
3-4-6 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Announcement of Candidacies Any person who is eligible to hold an office (including that of member of a state or county executive committee) may file with the secretary of state, if it be … Proofed
3-4-7 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Ballot Commissioners The ballot commissioners for conducting the general election shall perform the duties of ballot commissioners for primary elections. Proofed
3-4-8 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Certification and Posting of Candidacies At least thirty days before the day fixed for the primary election, the secretary of state shall arrange the names of all the candidates who have filed announce… Proofed
3-4-9 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Publication and Printing of Ballots At least twenty-five days before the holding of any primary election, the ballot commissioners of each county shall prepare from the list and certificate or cer… Proofed
3-4-10 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Announcements Not Certified; Vacancies on Ticket Filled If, by satisfactory evidence, it shall appear to the primary ballot commissioners of any county that announcements have been made in conformity with the provisi… Proofed
3-4-11 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Primary and Sample Ballots; Color of Paper There shall be a separate ballot printed on different colored paper, for each political party participating in the primary election, and the ballot of no two pa… Proofed
3-4-12 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Form and Contents of Ballots The official primary ballot shall contain, at the left of each column of names of candidates, a perpendicular column, and be so printed as to leave a square at … Proofed
3-4-13 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Procuring Ballots and Other Primary Supplies It shall be the duty of the board of ballot commissioners to appoint one of the commissioners of election at each precinct of the county to attend at the office… Proofed
3-4-14 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Loss or Destruction of Primary Ballots or Supplies If, by any accident or casualty, the ballots, ballot boxes, poll books or any of the other supplies delivered to a commissioner of election or to any messenger,… Proofed
3-4-15 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Commissioners and Clerks for Primary The county court of every county shall hold a regular or special session at the courthouse of the county on the second Tuesday of the month preceding that in wh… Proofed
3-4-16 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Oaths of Primary Commissioners and Clerks Each commissioner and clerk of the primary election, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and subscribe the following oaths, respectivel… Proofed
3-4-17 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Conducting Primary; Voting On entering the election room, the voter shall announce his name and the name of the party the ballot of which he desires to vote, and if he is duly registered,… Proofed
3-4-18 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Ascertainment of Result of Primary; Certificates When the polls are closed, the commissioners of election and the poll clerks shall proceed to ascertain the result of the election as follows: (a) All ballots… Proofed
3-4-19 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Delivery of Primary Ballots, Supplies and Election Returns to County and Circuit Clerks It shall be the duty of the commissioner of election at each precinct who was appointed to attend at the offices of the clerks of the county and circuit courts,… Proofed
3-4-20 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Canvass of Primary Election Returns; Certificates When any such election is held in a county or district, the county court sitting as a board of canvassers shall meet at the court house thereof on Friday next s… Proofed
3-4-21 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Disposition of Certificates; Certification of Nominations The certificates of the board of canvassers made pursuant to the preceding section shall be by them disposed of as follows: One of the certificates showing the … Proofed
3-4-22 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Plurality to Govern; Tie Vote Of the candidates for each office, respectively, including party committeemen and delegates and alternate delegates to national conventions, where only one such… Proofed
3-4-23 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Vacancies in Nominations If any vacancy shall occur in the party nomination of candidates for office, caused by death, withdrawal, failure to make a nomination for the office at the pri… Proofed
3-4-24 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Leave of Absence for Voting Any person entitled to vote at any primary or convention shall, on the day of such primary or convention, be entitled to absent himself from any service or empl… Proofed
3-4-25 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Contests; Review by the Courts Any candidate for nomination for an office to be filled by the voters of a county, school district or of a magisterial district, or any candidate for membership… Proofed
3-4-26 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Expense of Conducting Primary Elections The ballot commissioners, election commissioners, poll clerks, and other officers conducting primary elections shall receive the same compensation for services … Proofed
3-4-27 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Nominations by Party Conventions Candidates for presidential electors, for judge of the supreme court of appeals, for judge of any judicial circuit, and for judge of any inferior court, all sha… Proofed
3-4-28 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Convention Nominations by Party Casting Less Than Ten Per Cent Vote Any political party which polled less than ten per cent of the total vote cast for governor at the general election immediately preceding may nominate candidate… Proofed
3-4-29 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Certificate Nominations Groups of citizens having no party organization may nominate candidates for public office otherwise than by conventions or primary elections. In such case, a ce… Proofed
3-4-30 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Nomination of Candidates Certificates; Where Filed; Time of Filing All certificates nominating candidates for office under the preceding section, including a candidate for the office of presidential elector, shall be filed, in … Proofed
3-5-1 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Conducting Election; Ascertaining and Certifying the Result Election Rooms and Booths The county court in each county, before each election, shall secure, in each voting precinct in the county, a suitable room or building in which to hold the ele… Proofed
3-5-2 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Conducting Election; Ascertaining and Certifying the Result Ballot Commissioners In each county in the State, the clerk of the circuit court while holding such office, and two persons by him appointed, one from each of the two political part… Proofed
3-5-3 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Conducting Election; Ascertaining and Certifying the Result Ballots; Printing It shall be the duty of the board of ballot commissioners for each county to provide printed ballots for every election for public officers in which the voters … Proofed
3-5-4 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Conducting Election; Ascertaining and Certifying the Result Form and Arrangement of Ballots All ballots prepared under the provisions of this article shall be printed in black ink on number two white book paper sufficiently thick so that the printing c… Proofed
3-5-5 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Conducting Election; Ascertaining and Certifying the Result Number of Ballots; Packages The board of ballot commissioners shall, for each general election to be held in their county, cause to be printed official ballots to at least one and one-half… Proofed
3-5-6 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Conducting Election; Ascertaining and Certifying the Result Cards of Instruction to Voters; Sample Ballots The board of ballot commissioners of each county shall cause to be printed in large, clear type, on cards, instructions for the guidance of voters in preparing … Proofed
3-5-7 Ch. 3 — ELECTIONS Conducting Election; Ascertaining and Certifying the Result Vacancy Filled After Ballots Are Printed If a nomination to fill a vacancy be made by a political committee or the chairman thereof and be certified to the clerk of the circuit court after the ballots … Proofed
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