§3-4-19 "Independent" voting in primary elections. - West Virginia Statutes

§3-4-19. "Independent" voting in primary elections.
If at any primary elections nonpartisan candidates for office and public questions are submitted to the voters and on which candidates and questions persons registered as "independent" are entitled to vote, as provided in section eighteen of article two of this chapter, the election officers shall adjust the voting machines, if mechanically possible to do so, so that such "independent" voters may vote only those portions of the voting machine ballot relating to the nonpartisan candidates and the public questions submitted.

If the voting machines cannot be so adjusted for the "independent" voters, then such "independent" voters, under the close supervision of two commissioners of the election of different political party affiliation, shall be permitted to use the voting machines for voting only those parts of the ballot relating to such nonpartisan candidates and public questions so submitted to the voters.

In lieu of using the voting machines, such "independent" voters may request official printed ballots relating to such nonpartisan candidates and public questions. Such ballots, when signed on the back by the poll clerks as in other elections, shall be voted and folded by the "independent" voter and shall be delivered to one of the election commissioners who shall secure same in a sealed or locked container until canvassed and counted in the same manner as provided for handling and recording absent voter ballots as provided in the section next hereafter.