West Virginia Code § 3-2-19

Maintenance of active and inactive registration records for municipal
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elections.
(a) For municipal elections, the registration records of active and inactive voters shall be
maintained as follows:
(1) Clerks of the county commissions shall prepare pollbooks or voter lists to be used in
municipal elections when the county precinct boundaries and the municipal precinct
boundaries are the same and all registrants of the precinct are entitled to vote in state,
county, and municipal elections within the precinct or when the registration records of
municipal voters within a county precinct are separated and maiuntained in a separate
municipal section or book for that county precinct and can be used either alone or in
combination with other pollbooks or voter lists to make up at complete set of registration
records for the municipal election precinct.
(2) No registration record may be removed from a municipal registration record unless the
registration is lawfully transferred or canceled purlsuant to the provisions of this article in
both the county and the municipal registrations records.
(b) Within 30 days following the entry of ainy annexation order or change in street names or
numbers, the governing body of an igncorporated municipality shall file with the clerk of the
county commission a certified current official municipal boundary map and a list of streets
and ranges of street numbers within the municipality to assist the clerk in determining
whether a voter's address is within the boundaries of the municipality.

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