An additional 513 registered voters may have voted the wrong delegate district in Kanawha County, and those voters may have been voting in the wrong district since 2012, said Kanawha County Clerk Vera McCormick.
Two of the general election races in those districts, the 36th District in 2014 and the 35th District in 2012, were decided by less than 50 votes.
The Democratic primary race in District 35 was decided by about 100 votes.
McCormick was unclear about when she first noticed there was a problem and said that she was unable to give the number of people who voted in the wrong district in 2016, 2014 and 2012.
The most recently discovered issue occurred in Precinct 240 in the South Hills neighborhood of Charleston. Since 2012, voters in the affected neighborhood, which includes parts of Parkwood and Huber roads, have been voting in District 35 instead of District 36 according to the maps.
That would bring the total number of voters who voted in the wrong district in Kanawha County in the 2016 primary, between districts 35 and 36, to a little under 1,000. That number includes the 472 people who were determined to have voted in the wrong district as of the primary election, as previously reported.
Despite receiving a Freedom of Information Act request on May 24 asking how many registered voters in Kanawha County voted in the wrong delegate district in 2012, the county did not reveal the problem in Precinct 240 until a Kanawha County Commission meeting Thursday night.
Both Commission President Kent Carper and Commissioner Dave Hardy said that the problem in Precinct 240 was first brought to their attention Thursday.
McCormick was not straightforward about the problem during the meeting.
"The only thing I've done is move the people back," McCormick said.
McCormick also said that she would not take full blame for the issue, pointing out the fact that the state Legislature did not respect Charleston city lines when it redrew the delegate districts in 2012.
The Kanawha County Clerk and the Kanawha County Assessor's offices already have drawn maps that would correct the problem for the 2016 general election, but Carper has said that he doesn't want to approve them until he knows that all problems have been corrected.
"Prove to me it's right this time," Carper said.
The county has until July 11 to approve new precinct lines to have them in effect for the general election in November.
The commission also decided Thursday to allow voters to decide if Sunday hunting should be permitted on private properties in Kanawha County, with the owners permission.
The issue will be on the ballot in November and will permit hunting on about 25 Sundays during hunting season.
"I certainly do not have a problem with the county voting on this again," Hardy said.
The county voted on a similar law in 2002, and rejected it by a 2-to-1 margin.
Also, county commissioners invited Andrew Schneider, the executive director of the LGBT rights group Fairness West Virginia, to speak about the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, where 49 people were shot and killed in a gay nightclub.
"We are excluded from non-discrimination laws here," Schneider said, referencing the fact that West Virginia does not have non-discrimination protections for LGBT citizens. "That should change because society has to make it clear to folks that that kind of hatred is not acceptable."
Kanawha County has passed non-discrimination protections for all employees of the county.
When asked if the county can expand those protections to LGBT citizens in the county, Carper said he would look into it.
"I would if I could," Carper said. "But there has been too much silence on this issue."
State Treasurer John Perdue gave $16,449 back to Kanawha County from unclaimed property.
The County Commission decided to give $24,000 to Recovery Point, an organization that provides places to stay for men and women who are recovering from drug addiction.
Recovery Point hopes to provide beds for 136 women on the Charleston's West Side.
"This program is a peer-based recovery program and that is probably the most successful way of recovery," said Kanawha Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey, who spoke in favor of Recovery Point.
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