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West Virginia Democrats Want GOP Candidates Off Ballot

West Virginia Democrats say Republican state Del. Suzette Raines doesn't live where she claims and shouldn't be on the November ballot.They also want GOP…

  West Virginia Democrats say Republican state Del. Suzette Raines doesn’t live where she claims and shouldn’t be on the November ballot.

They also want GOP House of Delegates hopeful Melissa Lewis off the ballot.

The state Democratic Executive Committee filed complaints Monday in Kanawha and Preston circuit courts.

Democrats say Raines doesn’t live at her listed St. Albans address, hasn’t filed campaign finance reports and a financial disclosure, and didn’t sign previous disclosures.

They say Lewis switched from Democrat to Republican five days before filing. State law allows only switches more than 60 days before filing.

Democrats claim she lived outside Preston-based District 52 within a year of November’s election, making her ineligible.

Raines is seeking a second term in Kanawha-based District 35.

Neither candidate has returned calls for comment.

West Virginia GOP Re-Elects Chairman

  Conrad Lucas of Huntington has been re-elected to a full four-year term as chairman of the West Virginia Republican Party.

The state GOP says in a news release Saturday that its Executive Committee unanimously re-elected Lucas at its annual summer meeting in Huntington.

Lucas served as the state party’s general counsel and chairman of the West Virginia Young Republicans before being chosen chairman in 2012. He succeeded Mike Stewart, who resigned to focus on career and family.

Executive Committee members also heard from Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, the party’s candidate for Senate; state Sen. Evan Jenkins, the GOP nominee in the 3rd Congressional District; and Republican National Committee Evangelical Outreach Director Chad Connelly.

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