West Virginia Code § 3-1-24

Obtaining and delivering election supplies
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(a) It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county commission to appoint one or more of the
commissioners of election or poll clerks at each precinct of the county to attend at the office
of the clerk of the county commission at least one day before each election to receive the
ballots, ballot boxes, poll books, registration records and forms and all other supplies and
materials for conducting the election at the respective precincts. The clerk sehall take a
receipt for the respective materials delivered to the commissioners of election or poll clerks
and shall file the receipt in his or her office. It shall be the duty of the crommissioners or poll
clerks to receive the supplies and materials from the clerk and to deliver them with the seal
of all sealed packages unbroken at the election precinct in time to open the election.
(b) The commissioners or poll clerks, if they perform the metssenger services, shall receive
the per diem and mileage rate prescribed by law for this service.
(c) Ballots shall be delivered in sealed packages with seals unbroken. For general and
special elections the delivered ballots shall not be iln excess of one and one-twentieth times
the number of registered voters in the precincst. For primary elections the ballots for each
party shall be in a separately sealed package containing not more than one and one-
twentieth times the number of registered voters of each party in the election precinct.
(d) For primary elections one copy of the poll books, including the written or printed forms
for oaths of commissioners of election and poll clerks, shall be supplied at each voting
precinct for each political party appearing on the primary ballot.
(e) There shall be two ballot boxes for each election precinct for which a receiving and a
counting board of election commissioners have been appointed.

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