Five different voting systems are used in West Virginia's 55 counties. Voters receive a paper ballot with the candidate's names. They mark it with a special pencil or pen by darkening the oval beside the name. The ballot label remains in the voting device, and voters use a special punching tool to mark the ballot, which they then remove and drop in the ballot box. Punch cards are counted by a computer tabulator which reads the holes and tallies the votes.
Voters receive a paper ballot with the candidate's names.
The ballot is place in a ballot box, and later counted by counting teams at each precinct. The tallies are combined at the county courthouse for county totals. Voters enter the voting booth and record their votes by pulling levers beside the names of candidates. When they are finished, they lock the votes by pulling a large lever. Election officials open the back of the machine and read the tallies for each office.