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Virginia v. West Virginia 78 U.S. 39 (1871) is a 6-to-3 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that where a governor has discretion in the conduct of the election the legislature is bound by his action and cannot undo the results based on fraud. The case implicitly ratified the secession of the state of West Virginia from the state of Virginia and explicitly ratified that the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson were part of West Virginia.
