State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > West-virginia > 03 > 3-4a-20§3-4A-20. "Independent" voting in primary elections.
If at any primary elections, nonpartisan candidates for office and public questions are submitted to the voters on which persons registered as "independent" are entitled to vote, as provided in section eighteen, article two of this chapter, the election officers shall provide a vote recording device, where applicable, or the appropriate ballot to be marked by an electronically sensible pen or ink, or by means of a stylus or by means of touch, so that "independent" voters may vote only those portions of the ballot relating to the nonpartisan candidates and the public questions submitted, or shall provide a ballot containing only provisions for voting for those candidates and upon those issues submitted common to the ballots provided to all voters regardless of political party affiliation, or both.
In counties utilizing electronic voting systems in which votes are recorded by perforating, if vote recording devices are not available for the "independent" voters, provisions are to be made for sealing the partisan section or sections of the ballot or ballot labels on a vote recording device using temporary seals, thus permitting the independent voter to vote for the nonpartisan section or sections of the ballot or ballot labels. After the "independent" voter has voted, the temporary seals may be removed and the device may then be used by partisan voters.
