Jack Walker Published

Absentee Voting Applications Now Open For November Election

A dark-tinted glass door displays signs containing election information, including one sign that reads "Polling Place" and displays the polling location's hours of operation. Two miniature American flags are displayed prominently above the signs.
The Morgan County Courthouse will serve as a polling location for November's general election in West Virginia.
Jack Walker/West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Listen

Eligible West Virginia residents can now request an absentee ballot for the state’s Nov. 5 general election.

Applications must be submitted to a voter’s county clerk through mail, email, fax or hand delivery.

Mountain State residents can only participate in absentee voting if they meet specific conditions.

Those conditions include having medical circumstances that make in-person voting impossible; being incarcerated or detained under most misdemeanor charges; residing temporarily outside of one’s home county; having a polling location that is inaccessible or too far from one’s workplace; and serving as a state or federal official.

Applications opened Tuesday and will remain open until Oct. 30 at 5 p.m. Election officials will begin mailing ballots to eligible voters Sept. 20.

Absentee ballots will be accepted until Nov. 12 through mail, so long as they are postmarked by Nov. 5, the day of the election.

For more information on absentee voting, visit the website GoVoteWV.com, which is run by the secretary of state.

To access the absentee ballot application, visit the secretary of state’s website.