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(By Delegates Barker, Lawrence, Ferro, Frazier
A BILL to amend and reenact §3-1-9, §3-1-21, §3-1-31, §3-1-34, §3-1-35 and §3-1-50 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend and reenact §3-5-7, §3-5-8, §3-5-13a, §3-5-21, §3-5-23 and §3-5-24 of said code; to amend and reenact §3-6-4a of said code; to amend and reenact §3-8-1a and §3-8-5a of said code; to amend and reenact §3-9-6 of said code; to amend and reenact §8-5-14; and to amend and reenact §59-3-3 of said code, all relating to the clarification of inconsistences in the election code and the elimination of obsolete and outdated language.
That §3-1-9, §3-1-21, §3-1-31, §3-1-34, §3-1-35 and §3-1-50 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted; that §3-5-7, §3-5-8, §3-5-13a, §3-5-21, §3-5-23 and §3-5-24 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §3-6-4a of said code be amended and reenacted; that §3-8-1a and §3-8-5a of said code be amended and reenacted; that §3-9-6 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §8-5-14 be amended and reenacted; and that §59-3-3 of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
(f) After preparing the ballot, the voter shall fold the ballot so that the face is not exposed and so that the names of the poll clerks thereon are seen. The voter shall announce his or her name and present his or her ballot to one of the commissioners who shall hand the same to another commissioner, of a different political party, who shall deposit it in the ballot box if the ballot is the official one and properly signed. The commissioner of election may inspect every ballot before it is deposited in the ballot box to ascertain whether it is single but without unfolding or unrolling it so as to disclose its content. When the voter has voted, he or she shall retire immediately from the election room and beyond the sixty-foot three hundred-foot limit thereof and may not return except by permission of the commissioners.
In general and special elections the ballots for all voters of an election precinct shall be the same. In primary elections the ballot of the voter's political party at that election in that precinct shall be furnished to the voter together with separate ballots, if any, on any nonpartisan candidates and any public questions submitted to the voters generally at such primary election. In the event the voter is lawfully registered as "independent" or as an adherent of a political party not appearing on any primary election ballot to be voted in his precinct, he shall not, in a primary election, be given or entitled to vote any a party ballot be given a party ballot and is not entitled to vote a party ballot unless the voter requests a ballot of a political party that has permitted the voter to vote according to section thirty-one, article two, of this chapter. but shall be furnished any separate ballots to be voted thereat on nonpartisan candidates and public questions.
(e) The Secretary of State or the Board of Ballot Commissioners, as the case may be, may refuse to certify the candidacy or may remove the certification of the candidacy upon receipt of a certified copy of the voter's registration record of the candidate showing that the candidate was registered as a voter in a party other than the one named in the certificate of announcement during the sixty days immediately preceding the filing of the certificate. Provided, That Unless a signed formal complaint of violation of this section and the certified copy of the voter's registration record of the candidate are filed with the officer receiving that candidate's certificate of announcement no later than ten days following the close of the filing period, the candidate may not be refused certification for this reason.
For goods or services provided or rendered for an expenditure less than the dollar value as determined by this section, the difference between the calculated dollar value and the actual cost shall be deemed an in-kind contribution. The actual cost shall be reported as an expenditure of the campaign of committee as required under article eight of this chapter. In-kind services do not include nonprofessional campaign-related services voluntarily rendered for which no compensation is asked or given.
Excepting those individuals provided for expressly in this or other sections of the code, only full-time employees designees of the Secretary of State's office or full-time employees designees of the respective county offices of the county clerk or the county prosecutor or international observers who have registered as such and been approved by the Secretary of State may enter or otherwise disturb the polling place.
(2) 11 1/2 ¢ per word if the qualified newspaper has a bona fide circulation of one thousand to five thousand;
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to clarify inconsistences in the code and to eliminate obsolete and outdated language.