(a) The mode of voting shall be by ballot, but the voter shall be left free to vote an open or sealed ballot as he or she may elect. The elections in said city shall be held and conducted, and the result thereof determined, as fixed by the laws of this state, relating to general elections, as they exist at the time any such election is being held, except that the persons conducting said elections shall, on the day that the election is held, deliver the ballots to the Recorder, and thereafter the Common Council of said city shall meet on the sixth day succeeding said election and canvass the return thereof, and declare the result thereof, and in all respects comply with the requirements of the Council and the statute relating to general elections as they are in force at the time of holding such election. The corporate authorities of said city shall perform all the duties in relation to such elections required by general law of county courts and officers in the general election laws of this state, and the provisions of the Code of West Virginia, in effect at the date of such election, concerning elections by the people, shall govern such election laws shall have the same force and effect as if they were specially enacted for corporate elections.
(b) All of the provisions of W. Va. Code Ch. 2, Art. 3-3 relating to voting by absentees, are hereby to the same extent as if such article were set out in full and embodied in this section. This shall be the city’s preferred method of early voting.
(Ord. passed 2-1-2022)