Online voting

The county clerks of two of West Virginia’s largest counties are refusing to accept online voter registrations, instead mailing would-be voters a paper form that must be returned before registration is complete and delaying the registration of thousands of potential voters. Kanawha County Clerk Vera McCormick and Cabell County Clerk Karen Cole both said they are uncomfortable with the security provisions in West Virginia’s six-month-old online voter registration website and would not accept applications through the website until changes were made.
Statewide, about 18,000 people have registered to vote online in the last six months, Tennant said.