W.Va. Early Voting Starts Wednesday
By JOSELYN KING Political WriterWHEELING - Voting for the 2008 presidential election starts Wednesday in West Virginia, and residents of the state not already registered to vote must do so by Tuesday if they want to vote this year.
Although Tuesday is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 4 general election in West Virginia, county courthouses will be closed Monday in observance of Columbus Day.
Early voting in the state then starts Wednesday morning and extends through Saturday, Nov. 1.
Northern Panhandle voters will be able to cast early ballots on weekdays at their respective county courthouses at the following times: Brooke County - 9 a.m to 5 p.m.; Hancock County - 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Marshall County - 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and until 5:30 p.m. Fridays; Ohio County - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Tyler County - 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
In Wetzel County, the hours are from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays.
All courthouses will also be open for voting from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, and Saturday, Nov. 1.
Ohio County Coordinator of Elections Toni Chieffalo said more than 200 in the county registered to vote in just the past week, and she is expecting a big turnout Tuesday.
She said the number of registered voters in the county has jumped from 32,355 in August to 32,818 as of Friday morning with at least another 100 registrations to be added to the totals.
"All the voter registrations ... I didn't realize there were that many people in the county not registered," Chieffalo said. "I'm expecting a big turnout. We will be closed Monday, so Tuesday will be interesting."
It will take officials a few days to enter all the new voter registrations into their records systems, she noted.
Early voting will take place in the first floor municipal courtroom at the City-County Building, 1500 Chapline St., Wheeling.
Some residents who register Tuesday and then show up to vote early Wednesday morning may find they are not yet on the voting rolls, Chieffalo acknowledged.
In that event, the newly registered voter will be sent upstairs to the county commission office to verify their status, she said. After the new voter's registration card is found, they will quickly be added into the system so they can vote.
Chieffalo wishes there were at least a week between the end of the voter registration period and the start of early voting so that all the work could be completed.
"It makes it tough that way," she said.
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wonderwhy
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10-13-08 6:40 AM
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ellis- now you have obama encouraging students of voter fraud. let's see, you went to college, were in the military, know everything about politics and the world view, and you are a rush clone. i sure wish you get on some fact checking websites.
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EllisWyatt
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10-13-08 6:20 AM
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Nancy In 1960, the Democrats, with the help of the mafia in Chicago, registered and voted thousands of people whose names came directly from Chicago cemetaries. These votes gave JFK an edge in Chicago, which won him Illinois, which won him the Presidency. People laugh about it today but it was a serious crime. Of course, we expect nothing less from a corrupt city that gave us shady characters like Al Capone, Tony Rezko and Barack Hussein Obama. No way for a single vote to influence the election? In 1960, the switch of a single vote in every precinct would have given the popular and electoral victory to Nixon. Votes count.
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EllisWyatt
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10-13-08 6:17 AM
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Nancy When I was in college, I PERSONALLY witnessed at least 4 out of state students fill out absentee ballots and vote for Clinton and THEN go to the polls in Wheeling and vote for Clinton. At the time, I didn't think much of it because I didn't know the law. But don't you think that is voter fraud? How about Obama paying ACORN $800,000 in Ohio, where ACORN suddenly found 90,000 + new Democratic voters in a matter of weeks-in Cuyahoga County, which has been bleeding population! In fact, officials say that Cuyahoga County has 200,000 more registered voters than it does adults! How about bribing criminals and the homeless to register and encouraging them to vote Obama? How about providing rides to and from the polls? How about giving out food and snacks? A sane person realizes that, registering people with bribes and asking them to vote Obama, giving the rides and food and asking them to vote Obama, encouraging college students to vote twice are all cases of fraud.
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NancySI
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10-12-08 8:19 PM
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Wonder, you are being awfully nice to Ellis, who never met a lie he wasnt willing to pass along. When you got nothing good to offer, make stuff up. Fact: Voter fraud by individuals is extremely rare, and incredibly difficult. There has never been a single proven case of anyone, anywhere, casting an illegal vote as a result of a phony voter registration. Even if someone wanted to influence the election this way, it would not work.
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wonderwhy
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10-12-08 6:57 PM
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ellis- you are so darn silly.
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EllisWyatt
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10-12-08 1:06 PM
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Why even have "Election Day"? Why not just let people mail in a vote whenever they feel like it? We could change Presidents every couple of months. This "early voting" and "same day registration and voting" is all a fraud. ACORN is busy signing up the dead to vote for Obama. I'm pretty sure that, in driving past the cemetary on National Road this morning, I saw two people with clipboards writing down names of potential voters, taken from headstones.
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