GREENBRIER COUNTY CLERK
	GREENBRIER COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA

	GOING TO VOTE

Elections are held every even year in the State of West Virginia, while presidential elections are held every four years. Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and do not close until 7:30 p.m. You can request up to 3 hours off from your employer, without taking leave or a deduction of pay, if you do not have at least 3 hours before or after work that you can go to the polls to vote.

Candidates

Before running for office, you will need to decide which office you would like to run for. All candidates for county offices must be qualified voters. Some offices have special requirements in order to be able to run. They may include, but are not limited to, age and residency. Residence for voting and candidacy means where you live the majority of the time. Being away temporarily, such as for school, temporary work assignments, weekend or winter home, may not end your residence in a place. However, your residence is not a business address, an extra place you own or a place you stay occasionally. The deadline for establishing a residence varies from office to office. To find out more, visit http://www.wvsos.com/elections/offices/officesdetail.htm.

The period for filing for candidates wishing to run for office is from January 14 until midnight on January 26. You must complete a certificate of announcement and return it to either the Secretary of State for all offices on the ballot in more than one county or to the County Clerk's office for all offices on the ballot for only Greenbrier County. You may mail your certificate of announcement and filing fee but it must be received during the filing period or bear a legible US postmark with a date no later than January 26. The candidate must also fill out a personal financial disclosure with the WV Ethics Commission within 10 days of filing their certificate of announcement. The period for disclosing personal finances is between January 14 and February 5.

After you have decided on the office you want to run for, have completed and returned the certificate of announcement and filed your personal finance disclosure, you must submit the appropriate filing fee. The filing fee is 1% of the salary of the position. These salaries may be obtained by contacting the County Clerk at 304.647.6603.

If you should change your mind about running for office, you may withdraw by sending a signed and notarized statement of withdrawal no later than February 12, 2008 for this year's general election.

Positions on the ballot is drawn on Tuesday following the deadline. The drawing will take place in the Greenbrier County Clerk's office at 9:00 a.m. on February 19, 2008 for the general election.

For more information on running for office, visit the election site on the West Virginia Secretary of State web site at http://www.wvsos.com/elections/.

For further information, see press release below.

Registering to Vote

You may register to vote at the Greenbrier County Health Department, 9207 Seneca Trail South, Ronceverte; Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), 150 Maplewood Avenue, Lewisburg; Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), 148 Maplewood Avenue, Lewisburg; and the Greenbrier County Clerk's Office, 200 Court Street North, Lewisburg.

In order to register to vote, you must bring proof of your Greenbrier County residency. Post office boxes are not proof of your physical address. You may find your physical address on your driver's license, state ID, a utility bill or bank statement.

Deadline to register to vote in the primary election is April 22, 2008 and in the general election is October 14, 2008.

Voting

You must have established residency 30 days prior to election day.

Anyone in the military or who is unable to vote on election day may vote absentee ballot by mail. Your application to vote by mail must be received no later than the 6th day before the election. You may apply as early as 8 weeks before the election (or January 2 for military or overseas voters for the primary election and August 12 for general), but the ballot will not be ready for mailing to you until 6 weeks before the election. Unless you are voting absentee by mail because of illness or disability, the ballot must be mailed to an out-of-county address. The absentee ballot period for the primary election is open from April 1, 2008 until May 7, 2008. They must be received in the Election Room of the County Clerk's Office no later than May 16, 2008 with a postmark on or before May 13, 2008. For the general election, the absentee voting is open from August 12, 2008 through October 29, 2008. The latest a absentee ballot will be accepted in the general election is November 10, 2008 with a postmark on or before November 4, 2008.

If you choose to, you may vote early in person at the Greenbrier County Courthouse. The dates for early voting are April 23, 2008 through May 10, 2008, with voting available on Saturday, April 26 from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, May 2 from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

Office on the Ballot in 2008
Federal Offices
Office	Term
President	4 years
US Senate	6 years
US House of Representative	2 years
State Offices
Office	Term
Governor	4 years
Attorney General	4 years
Auditor	4 years
Commissioner of Agriculture	4 years
Secretary of State	4 years
Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals	12 years
District Offices
Office	Term
Circuit Judge	8 years
State Senate	4 years
House of Delegates	2 years
Family Court Judge	8 years
County Commission	6 years
Board of Education	4 years
Assessor	4 years
Prosecuting Attorney	4 years
Sheriff	4 years
Magistrate	4 years

 

Anyone interested in being a poll worker, please contact Gail White at 304.647.6601.

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2008 Certificate of Announcement

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