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This page details signature requirements for statewide ballot measures in West Virginia.


Laws • History
List of measures

West Virginia ballot measures come in only one variety. That is:

legislatively referred constitutional amendment - A constitutional amendment that appears on a state's ballot as a ballot measure because the state legislature in that state voted to put it before the voters.

West Virginia is one of the 24 states that do not have initiative and referendum.

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