Interested voters have until April 23 to register, Greenbrier County early voting relocated due to courthouse construction
By Sarah Richardson
The May 14 Primary Election is now less than a month away, and Secretary of State Mac Warner is reminding all West Virginia citizens that it is time to check your voter registration status and to register now if you haven’t already done so. The process to check your voter registration status is simple, just visit https://apps.sos.wv.gov/elections/Voter/amiregisteredtovote, enter in your name and date of birth, and see your voter registration status. To register to vote, visit https://ovr.sos.wv.gov/Register/Landing, or visit Greenbrier County’s Deputy Election Clerk Jason Morgan at the Greenbrier County Courthouse from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Registered voters who have moved or changed their name since the last election should update their voter registration.
Sample ballots are also now available to view online. According to Warner, sample ballots available through the search tool are specific to the voter’s residential address and take into consideration the voter’s Congressional, Senatorial, Delegate, and in some cases, Municipal Districts. Some of the Primary Election ballots may also include local bonds and tax levies for voters to consider.
“We are asking voters to take a little time to educate themselves before they go to vote to learn more about the candidates and the initiatives that will be on their ballot,” said Secretary Warner. “The online search tool for sample ballots is safe and accurate to use.”
Visit https://wv.omniballot.us/sites/54/ballot/app/sb/vr to view your sample ballot, you must be a registered voter to do so.
For Greenbrier County residents, early voting is typically held at the Greenbrier County Courthouse in Lewisburg. However, due to ongoing renovations to the courthouse, early voting will instead be held this year at the Romano Law Office, which is located directly across the street from the Lewis Theatre in downtown Lewisburg.
Deputy Election Clerk Morgan said that he feels as if this election year is “one of our most secure elections ever.” He explained that there is now a physical printout of each voter’s ballot for the voter to review before submitting their vote into the tabulator machine, the machine that scans and counts the votes. Individual ballot marking machines do not count the ballots, they are counted when they are submitted into the tabulator, which secures the physical and digital copies of the ballot for the official canvass count.
Important dates this election year are as follows:
- Apr. 23, 2024 – Voter Registration Deadline
- May 1 – May 11, 2024 – Early Voting in Person – Voter may vote an early ballot at the county courthouse, an annex or a designated community voting location during normal business hours. Early voting must be conducted between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the last two Saturdays before the Primary Election.
- May 7 – Noon, May 14, 2024- Emergency Absentee Voting
Registered voters and other qualified voters in the county are authorized to vote an emergency absentee ballot in the following circumstances may be eligible to receive an emergency absentee ballot in the following circumstances:
- Voter is in the hospital on Election Day;
- Voter is a replacement poll worker appointed after the period for Early Voting;
- Voter is in a licensed health care facilities within an adjacent county or within 35 miles of the county seat (county policy required;)
- Voter is in nursing home within the county if he or she has resided there for a period of less than 30 days (county policy required); or
- Voter becomes confined, on or after the seventh day preceding an election, to a specific location within the county because of illness, injury, physical disability, or immobility due to advance age or other medical reason (county policy required).
- May 8, 2024 – Deadline for Absentee Ballot Applications
- May 11, 2024 – Deadline for Early Voting in Person
- May 13, 2024 – Deadline for Hand-Deliver Absentee Ballot to the Clerk’s Office
- May 14, 2024 – ELECTION DAY
- May 14, 2024 – Absentee Ballots Received Electronically from Eligible Voters Accepted – Absentee ballots submitted electronically by eligible military and overseas voters and eligible voters with physical disabilities are accepted by close of polls.
- May 15, 2024 – Absentee Ballots without Postmark Accepted
- May 20, 2024 – Absentee Ballots Postmarked by Election Day Accepted
To learn more about the upcoming election, to request an absentee ballot, to register to vote, or to become a poll worker, please visit GoVoteWV.com – a secure website hosted by the WV Secretary of State’s Office.
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IMPORTANT PRIMARY ELECTION INFORMATION FOR ALDERSON AND SURROUNDING AREA VOTERS WHO HAVE VOTED AT CITY HALL (Monroe) and ALDERSON COMMUNITY CENTER (Greenbrier):
- APR. 23 is deadline to register to VOTE!
- MAY 1 begins Early Voting.
- MAY 14 is Primary Election Day.
THE VOTERS WHO HAVE NORMALLY VOTED AT THE ALDERSON COMMUNITY CENTER (currently under construction for new elementary school) will vote at the CAFETERIA OF THE CURRENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (500 Elmwood Avenue) ON MAY 14.
MONROE VOTERS WHO NORMALLY VOTED AT CITY HALL FOR COUNTY/STATE ELECTIONS WILL VOTE AT THE ALDERSON SENIOR CENTER (228 Monroe Street, South) for the Primary and General elections.