State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > West-virginia > 03 > 3-4-14§3-4-14. Instructions and help to voters; voting machine models; facsimile diagrams; sample ballots; legal ballot advertisements.
For the instruction of the voters on any election day there shall be provided for each polling place one instruction model for each voting machine. Each such instruction model shall be constructed so as to provide a replica of a portion of the face of the voting machine, and shall contain the arrangement of the ballot labels, party columns or rows, office columns or rows and questions. Fictitious names shall be inserted in the ballot labels of the models. Such models shall be located on the election officers' tables or in some other place in which the voter must pass to reach the voting machine. Each voter, upon request, before voting, shall be offered instruction by the election officers in the operation of the voting machine by use of the instruction model and each voter shall be given ample opportunity to operate the model himself.
The ballot commissioners shall also provide facsimile diagrams, at least two of which shall be posted on the walls of each polling place. The facsimile diagrams shall be exact diagrams of the face of the voting machines to the end that the voter may become familiar with the location of the parties, offices, candidates and questions as they appear on the voting machine to be used in his precinct. Ballot labels may be affixed to the diagrams to ensure that the position of the names of the candidates in each office division shall appear accurately on the diagrams of each precinct.
The ballot commissioners may, with the consent of the county commission, or the county commission may prepare and mail to each qualified voter at his or her address as shown on the registration books a facsimile sample of the ballot for his or her precinct.
In counties where voting machines have been adopted, the legal ballot advertisements required by articles five and six of this chapter which specify the publication of a facsimile sample ballot shall consist of a facsimile of the face of the voting machine with the names of the candidates and the offices for which they are running shown in their proper positions.
