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(excerpt from) Ballot Access News
West Virginia Legislators Introduce Clearly Unconstitutional Election Law Bills
February 17th, 2009
Recently, two election law bills have been introduced in the West Virginia legislature that are clearly unconstitutional.
Senators Robert Williams (D-Bridgeport) and Robert Plymale (D-Ceredo) have introduced SB 271, to require declared write-in candidates to pay a filing fee…
Delegates Ron Fragale, Tim Miley, and Richard Iaquinta have introduced HB 2052, which says that no one who has ever been convicted of a felony in the courts of West Virginia “or any other court” (which would even include foreign courts) may be elected to any public office. This bill, if enacted, would be unconstitutional as applied to federal office…
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