2025 Regular Session
Link to Bill History on Legacy Website (Click Here)Summary: Eliminating requirement for write-in candidates to register with Secretary of State in order to qualify write-in candidate votes to be counted.
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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 2119
By Delegate Kump
[Introduced February 12, 2025; referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary]
A BILL to repeal §3-6-4a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to removing the requirement that write-in candidates file with the Secretary of State before votes for said candidates can be counted.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
Article 6. Canvass of Returns; Declaration of Results; Recordkeeping.
§3-6-4a. Filing requirements for write-in candidates.
[Repealed].
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement that write-in candidates file with the Secretary of State before votes for said candidates can be counted.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.