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WVC 3-4A-5

§3-4A-5. Duty of county commission to acquire vote recording

devices, acquire use of automatic tabulating

equipment, and provide a central counting center.

If the use of an electronic voting system shall have been

adopted as hereinbefore provided, it shall be the duty of the

county commission of such county to acquire the necessary number of

vote recording devices to supply all or part of the election

precincts within such county as soon as possible, and to acquire

such reserve vote recording device or devices as will be deemed

necessary. All such acquisition of vote recording devices shall be

by sealed competitive bidding.

If it shall be impossible for the county commission to comply

with its order or with the decision of the voters in a referendum

at the next primary or general election, it shall in any event do

so at the next following primary or general election, whichever

shall first occur.

It shall be the further duty of the county commission of such

county to acquire prior to any election in which such electronic

voting system is to be used, the use of automatic tabulating

equipment approved by the state election commission, for the

purpose of counting votes in such election. In addition, the

county commission of such county shall provide the necessary

central counting center for use in said election. Such central

counting center shall be located at the county seat of the county

involved.





Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2015 Regular Session

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