The tallies are combined at the county courthouse for county totals. Voters enter the voting booth and record their votes by touching the screen in the box beside the candidate's name. When they are finished, they lock the votes by pressing a VOTE button. The votes, which are stored electronically, are transferred from the voting devices at the county courthouse to a central computer for county totals. For a list of counties for each system, see Voting Systems .
All ballots follow some basic rules for arrangement which are set in West Virginia law.
Each party has a straight ticket position, by which a voter can vote for all candidates in a single party. Cross-over voting is allowed. The offices appear in the same order on all ballots. The parties appear in the same sequence on all ballots. Official political parties are placed on the ballot in the order in which their candidates ranked in votes for President in the last presidential election.