Legal Liquor Sales During Election

{West Virginia}...West Virginia liquor retailers have waited 148 years to be able to sell liquor on an election day. During Tuesday's election, retail liquor sales were legal. Earlier this year, the Legislature rescinded a ban on election day liquor sales that dated to West Virginia's founding in 1863. The ban was designed to prevent swapping liquor for votes. The Secretary of State's Office estimated that last year's special U.S. Senate election cost liquor retailers an estimated $1 million in lost sales.