SB 487 — Removing ineligible voters from active voter rolls

WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION Enrolled Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 487 BYSENATOW OODRUM [Reported[Passed FebruaryMarch 28,17, 2025,2025; from the Committee on Government Organization] CS for SB 487 A BILL to amend and reenact §3-2-25 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to systematic purging program and additional systematic confirmation procedure for the removal of ineligible voters from active voter rolls;

in effect 90 days from passage (June 15, 2025)] Enr CS for SB 487 AN ACT to amend and reenact §3-2-25 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to systematic purging program and additional systematic confirmation procedure for the removal of ineligible voters from active voter rolls;

The resulting lists shall be returned to the appropriate county and the clerk of the county commission shall proceed with the confirmation procedure for those voters as prescribed in section§3- twenty-six2-26 of this article §3-2-26 of this code.

(c) The Secretary of State may provide for the comparison of data records of counties with the data records of the Division of Motor Vehicles, the registrar of vital statistics, and with the data Enr CS for SB 487 records of any other state agency which maintains records of residents of the state, if the procedure is practical and the agency agrees to participate.

Any resulting information regarding potentially ineligible voters shall be returned to the appropriate county and the clerk of the county commission shall proceed with the confirmation procedure as prescribed in section twenty-six of this article §3-2-26 of this code.

The cost of the change of address comparison procedure shall be paid for from the combined voter registration and licensing fund established in section twelve of this article and the cost of the confirmation notices, labels, and postage shall be paid for by the counties.

(2) The clerk of the county commission shall then mail to each voter who appears to have moved from the residence address shown on the registration records a confirmation notice pursuant to section twenty-six of this article §3-2-26 of this code and of section 8(d)(2) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (42 U.

CS for SB 487 (f) The clerk of the county commission shall indicate in the statewide voter registration database the name and address of each voter to whom a confirmation notice was mailed and the date on which the notice was mailed.

(g) Upon receipt of any response or returned mailing sent pursuant to the provisions of subsection (e) of this section, the clerk shall immediately enter the date and type of response Enr CS for SB 487 received in the statewide voter registration database and shall then proceed in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-six of this article §3-2-26 of this code.

C.§1973gg, et seq.), and with the provisions of section twenty-seven of this article §3-2-27 of this code, the public inspection lists shall be maintained either:

(j) In addition to the preceding purging procedures, all counties using the change of address information of the United States Postal Service shall also, once each four years during the period established for systematic purging in the year following a presidential election year, CS for SB 487 conduct the same procedure by mailing a confirmation notice to those persons not identified as potentially ineligible through the change of address comparison procedure but who have not updated their voter registration records and have not voted in any election during the preceding four two calendar years.

The purpose of this additional systematic confirmation procedure shall be to identify those voters who may have moved without filing a forwarding address, moved with a forwarding address under another name, died in a another county or state so that the certificate of Enr CS for SB 487 death was not returned to the clerk of the county commission, or who otherwise have become ineligible.

Enr CS for SB 487 The Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Delegates hereby certify that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.

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Clerk of the Senate ...............................................................

Clerk of the House of Delegates Originated in the Senate.

In effect 90 days from passage.

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President of the Senate ...............................................................

Speaker of the House of Delegates __________ The within is ................................................

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