[image: lwv msn logo.png] OPPOSE HB 2400 https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2400&year=2025&sessiontype=RS, which restricts access to absentee ballot applications. This bill makes it illegal for any person or organization to distribute absentee ballot applications -- blank applications, NOT ballots. Applications will be available only to voters who request them directly. This makes no sense. Absentee applications are public documents available to anyone from the Secretary of State’s website.
Absentee voting is essential for West Virginians with disabilities, those who lack transportation, the elderly, and residents of rural areas. This bill targets vulnerable West Virginians least likely to have computers and direct Internet access. And it conflicts with Federal regulations designed to help nursing home residents vote. That means voter suppression.
HB 2400 https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?INPUT=2400&year=2025&sessiontype=RS is on the agenda for the *Legal Services Subcommittee* of the House Judiciary Committee for Wednesday, Feb 19, 9:30 a.m. Contact members from your district ASAP. You can look them up here: House Judiciary Committee members https://wvecouncil.org/wv-legislature/house-judiciary-committee/.
Subcommittee members include: Laura Kimble - Chair; Josh Holstein - Vice Chair; Butler, Flanigan, Fluharty, Hornby, Marple, Maynor, Ridenour, Roop.
Tell them to OPPOSE HB 2400.
