West Virginia Code § 3-1-22

County court clerks to provide election supplies; requirements for poll
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books and ballot boxes.
The clerk of the county court of each county shall provide poll books, a list of all precincts
within the county, tally sheets, ballot boxes, voting booths, registration records and forms,
strong and durable envelopes upon which to make returns, blank forms for certifying returns
and whatever further supplies are needed for holding the elections and makeing the returns
thereof. The poll books shall bear upon each page the following heading: "Names of persons
voting at precinct No. ...... in the District of ....................... in the countyr of ...................... on
this (the) ................. day of ................. in the year ........" Such poll books shall have columns
headed respectively: "Number of Voters," "Signature of Voter" and "Challenge of Voter", and
shall have under the heading "Number of Voters" numbers in consecutive order to the
bottom of each page. Forms for oaths of commissioners of eltection and poll clerks shall be
written or printed on the poll books. Each ballot box shall be provided with two locks with
different keys so that the key for one lock will not open the other and shall be so constructed
as to be safely and securely closed and locked, with an opening in the lid of the box sufficient
only for the passage of a single ballot.

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