WEST VIRGINIA CODE
WVC 3-6-10
§3-6-10. Certificates of election results.
Whenever an election is held in any county or district to fill
any national, state, county, or district office, the board of
canvassers of the county, or a majority of them, under the
regulations prescribed in the next preceding section, shall
carefully and impartially ascertain the result of the election in
their county and in each district thereof, and shall record the
same in the following form, or to the following effect: "The board
of canvassers of the county of ........., having carefully and
impartially examined the returns of the election held in said
county, in each district thereof, on the ......... day of
..........., do hereby certify that in said county for the office
of ................., A....... B....... received ....... votes,
C....... D....... received ....... votes, and E....... F.......
received ..... votes. And we further certify that at said election
held in the district of ......., in the said county, for the office
of ......., G....... H....... received ..... votes, and I.......
J....... received ..... votes." (And so on as to each particular
office.) In such certificates shall be set forth, according to the
truth, the full name of every person voted for, and, in words at
length, the number of votes received for any office. When the
certificates are all entered, the record shall be signed by the
board or majority of them. The board shall then sign separate
certificates of the result of the election within the county, for
each of the offices to be filled.
Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2012 1st Special Session