West Virginia House Bill 4435: Increasing the percentage of precincts to be audited during the election canvass

West Virginia · 2026 Regular Session

What it does

The purpose of this bill is to increase the number of precincts to be audited by manual hand count to ensure accuracy of the electronically tabulated results and to lengthen the timeframe that candidates have to demand a recount to ensure sufficient time for the manual audit to be conducted and candidate opportunity to ascertain advisability of demanding a recount following the audit.

Latest action

Markup Discussion (2026-01-22)

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