West Virginia
Record-breaking early voter turnout reported in West Virginia
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A record number of West Virginia voters have already participated in person for the November 5 General Election, according to a report released on Monday by WV Secretary of State Mac Warner.
Early voting for the November 5 General Election has surpassed the previous record for early voting set in the 2020 General Election.
According to Warner, as of Saturday evening, a total of 332,081 voters have already cast a ballot statewide. Early in-person voters accounted for 310,421 of the ballots cast. 21,660 voters participated by absentee ballot. A total of 4,640 absentee ballots have not yet been returned to the county clerks.
A breakdown of early voting totals to date including voter participation by political party affiliation for each county can be downloaded HERE.
A summary of the breakdown includes:
In-Person Voters = 310,421 (Includes Saturday’s totals)
- 91,978 Democrats
- 143,554 Republicans
- 329 Mountain Party
- 60,196 No Party Affiliation
- 1,547 Libertarian
- 12,817 Other Parties
Absentee Ballot Voters = 21,660 (as of Saturday)*
- 9,494 Democrats
- 7,993 Republicans
- 23 Mountain Party
- 3,273 No Party Affiliation
- 71 Libertarian
- 806 Other Parties
*Absentee ballots requested but NOT returned yet = 4,640
There are 1,657 precincts open on Tuesday throughout the state. Polls are open 6:30am to 7:30pm, and voters in line at the close of polls will be able to vote. No campaigning or wearing campaign materials within 100-ft or inside polling locations.
Keep checking the WSAZ app for the latest information.
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West Virginia dropped to 7-3 on the season following a 75-66 loss to Wake Forest in Charleston.
Here are a few of my initial thoughts from this one.
Sloppy first half offense
I don’t know what’s worse, the 12 turnovers or the 4/18 mark from three-point range, with most of those attempts not coming off a paint touch. Brenen Lorient had four turnovers himself, one of which was a questionable travel call, but there were way too many live-ball turnovers, leading to points the other way.
Good response, bad response
After falling behind 10, the Mountaineers turned things around quickly, largely due to Honor Huff heating up for a few possessions. During that stretch where they fell behind, the ball-handling was sloppy, shot selection wasn’t the greatest, and Wake Forest just out-physicaled them on the interior. Weathering that storm and tying the game up at the half was big. The punch Wake threw in the second half? Yeah, WVU must have been weak on the ropes because they had no answer.
Still no offensive identity
Aside from Honor Huff jacking up a bunch of threes every game, I’ve yet to see an identity pop up for this team offensively. What do they do extremely well? I haven’t seen anything above average play through the first ten games of the season. They haven’t shot it well or attacked the paint consistently to dominate the interior either. Something has to emerge before conference play, or it’s going to be a big uphill battle.
Allergic to passing the ball inside
I understand Wake does a pretty good job of closing out the paint, but this is something that’s been a bit of a problem all year for WVU when not playing the low major scrubs (no offense to those programs). Swinging the ball around the perimeter isn’t going to open anything up. You have a 7-footer (Harlan Obioha) and an athletic freak (Brenen Lorient) down there for a reason — pound the ball inside. If they take away the passing lanes, they need to get more downhill, and Chance Moore can’t be the only one capable.
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Every game is considered a “must-win” when you really think about it, but in some instances, certain games feel a little more important than others.
Even after a slow start, there was no worry whatsoever that West Virginia would lose to Coppin State on Wednesday night. Getting out to a slow start in tonight’s matchup against Wake Forest could be troublesome, and it’s a game that the Mountaineers absolutely need to have.
The season is still young, but West Virginia enters tonight’s game ranked 95th in the NCAA’s NET Rankings, and if you drop this one, you’re really digging yourself quite a hole before Big 12 Conference play even begins.
According to the ESPN Basketball Power Index (BPI), the Mountaineers have a 61.6% chance to take care of business, while Wake Forest has a 38.4% chance to spoil the fun for WVU fans from the southern part of the state.
West Virginia’s recent games
After going a disappointing 0-2 in the Charleston Classic, the Mountaineers have bounced back, as expected, beating Mercyhurst by 32 and Coppin State by 42. For the first time, really this season, the Mountaineers opened the game a little flat, even falling behind to Coppin State in the first handful of minutes of the game. They eventually turned things around and held them to just 17 second half points en route to a dominant victory.
Wake Forest’s recent games
The Demon Deacons saw their three-game winning streak come to an end earlier this week with a blowout loss to Oklahoma. Their two other losses came by a single point each, falling to No. 6 Michigan in overtime and No. 15 Texas Tech. Of their six wins, American is the only team they’ve beaten with a winning record. Although they played extremely well against two top-15 teams, they were unable to reach the finish line, so this one is just as important for them.
West Virginia and Wake Forest are slated to get the action started at 6 p.m. ET on ESPN2.
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The West Virginia National Guard member who survived last week’s shooting in Washington is slowly healing, West Virginia’s governor said Friday.
Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe’s head wound is slowly improving and “he’s beginning to ‘look more like himself,’” Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement quoting Wolfe’s parents.
Wolfe and Spc. Sarah Beckstrom were ambushed as they patrolled a subway station three blocks from the White House on Nov. 26. Beckstrom died from her injuries the next day.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who was also shot during the confrontation, has been charged with murder. He has pleaded not guilty.
Wolfe’s family expects he will be in acute care for another two or three weeks, the governor said.
He asked that West Virginians and Americans continue to pray for Wolfe.
A vigil was scheduled to be held for him at his alma mater, Musselman High School, in Berkeley County on Friday night.
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Wolfe, 24, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, about 75 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., was assigned to the Force Support Squadron, 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard.
He has worked as a lineman with Frontier Communications since early 2023, the company said.
Wolfe joined the National Guard in 2019, the year he graduated from high school.
At Musselman, Wolfe was an engaged and high-achieving student “who embodied the Applemen spirit, contributing positively to our school community both academically and athletically,” Principal Alicia Riggleman said.
Wolfe and Beckstrom were among more than 2,000 troops deployed to the nation’s capital as part of President Donald Trump’s crime-fighting mission that involved taking over the local police department.
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