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V.I. Code tit. 18, § 581 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 21 - Preparation For, and Conduct Of, Primaries and Elections|Subchapter II - Voting|§ 581. Personal voting required; persons permitted to vote; change of residence within district

 (a) Except as provided by chapter 25 of this title, the right of voting may only be exercised by personal attendance, and no unregistered voter shall be allowed to vote at any primary or election, except by order of the district court. All persons whose names appear on the district register of electors of the polling district shall be permitted to vote, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the election officers that he no longer resides in the election district; but at a primary a person shall be permitted to vote only on the ballot of the political party in which he is enrolled in the district register. (b) If a voter has moved his residence from one polling district to another in the same legislative district within 30 days immediately preceding a primary or election, and for any reason his registration has not been transferred to the polling district of his new residence, he shall be permitted to vote only in the polling district in which he is registered and formerly resided. However, at the next election he shall be required to vote at the polling district where he resides.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 582 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 21 - Preparation For, and Conduct Of, Primaries and Elections|Subchapter II - Voting|§ 582. Manner of applying to vote; identification; voters' certificates; entries; voting list

 (a) Each elector desiring to vote shall, when he enters the place where the primary or general election is being held, state his name and present the Certificate of Registration, issued him in accordance with subsection (e) of section 100 of this title, to the election officers, if he is in possession of the same. If his registration card appears in the district register and, in the case of a primary, his party enrollment appears thereon, and the election officers are satisfied as to his identity and continued residence in the district, he shall be admitted to vote. (b) Election officers shall require the elector to sign or make his or her mark on a voter's certificate for the purpose of comparing his signature thereon with his signature or mark appearing on the district register and on the elector's Certificate of Registration, if he is in possession of the same. Such voter's certificate shall be supplied by the Supervisor of Elections in such quantities as he deems necessary, and shall be in the following form:I hereby certify that I am qualified to vote at this (primary) (election)Signature ____Address ________, Virgin IslandsApproved ____Party (if at primary) ____ (c) When an elector has been found qualified and admitted to vote, the election officer in charge of the district register shall write or stamp the date of the election or primary and the elector's number in order of admission to vote, and shall sign his name or initials, in the proper space on the registration card of such voter contained in the district register. The elector's name shall also be entered, with his running number, on the list of voters voting at that primary or election, to be kept by a clerk of election as provided by section 559 of this title, and to be known as the voting list. At primaries, after each name on the voting list a note of the voter's party enrollment shall be added. Such party designations may be abbreviated in the manner prescribed by the board of elections prior to the opening of the polls.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 585 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 21 - Preparation For, and Conduct Of, Primaries and Elections|Subchapter II - Voting|§ 585. Assistance in voting

 If a voter is unable by reason of physical disability or inability to read the English or Spanish language to mark his ballot or to mark same in an informed manner he may, if he declares to the judge of the election, under oath, that he is so disabled or unable to read, and the judge of the election is satisfied, from the contents of the voter's registration card or other convincing proof, as to the truth of such declaration, have the assistance of a person of his own selection to mark his ballot or to read the ballot for him. Such person so selected shall be sworn, may accompany the voter into the voting booth, and shall either mark the ballot as directed by the voter in the case of physical disability or read the ballot to the voter in the case of inability of the voter to read, and shall thereafter give no information regarding the same. Such person so selected may assist only one voter in any primary or general election.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 586 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 21 - Preparation For, and Conduct Of, Primaries and Elections|Subchapter II - Voting|§ 586. Challenging voters; oath

 Any voter may be challenged by any qualified elector of the district, and any watcher authorized by section 552 of this title to be present, and the election officers shall thereupon read to and afterward administer to the person challenged an oath in substance as follows: “I do swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the United States, that I am at least 18 years of age, that I have resided for a period of 90 days next preceding this election in the Virgin Islands and in this election district 30 days next preceding this election, and that I am a qualified elector registered under this name and that I have not voted before on this day.” If he takes the oath prescribed herein his vote shall be received, otherwise his vote shall be rejected.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 587 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 21 - Preparation For, and Conduct Of, Primaries and Elections|Subchapter II - Voting|§ 587. Duty of election officers to challenge voters

 The election officers shall challenge every person applying for a ballot when it shall be known or suspected that such person is not a qualified elector in the election district.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 588 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 21 - Preparation For, and Conduct Of, Primaries and Elections|Subchapter II - Voting|§ 588. Issuance of ballots by election officers only; ballots not to be removed; official ballots only to be deposited and counted; exception

 Only election officers or clerks may take and give ballots to electors; and not more than one ballot shall be given to an elector desiring, and found qualified, to vote, except in the case of an unserviceable or spoiled ballot as provided in this chapter. No person other than the election officers shall take or remove any ballot from the polling place. No ballot without the official endorsement shall, except as provided in section 554 of this title, be deposited in the ballot box, and no other ballots shall be counted. If any ballot appears to have been obtained otherwise than from the Supervisor of Elections, through the board of elections, as provided in this title, or from the board of elections as provided in section 554 of this title, it shall not be counted, and the judge of election shall transmit such ballot to the United States attorney without delay, together with whatever information he may have regarding it.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 589 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 21 - Preparation For, and Conduct Of, Primaries and Elections|Subchapter II - Voting|§ 589. Preventing congestion at polls

 The election officers, to prevent congestion, may specify the number of voters to be allowed in the polling place at any given time, provided that no qualified elector be denied his right of voting.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 741 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 741. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different construction, application or meaning: “election official” means any election officer or clerk of election, and any member of a board of elections or employee of a board of elections; and “whoever” means any individual, and, where consistent with collective capacity, a committee, firm, partnership, company, corporation, club, organization, association, or other combination of individuals.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 761 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter II - Registration Offenses|§ 761. Disobedience to order or subpoena of election board or board member

 Whoever willfully disobeys a lawful order of a board of elections or of a member thereof, or refuses to obey its or his subpoenas duly issued and served under the provisions of chapter 5 of this title, shall be fined not more than $1,000.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 762 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter II - Registration Offenses|§ 762. Wrongful registration, entries or alterations by board official or employee, refusal to register

 Whoever, being a member of a board of elections, or clerk or other board employee: (1) knowingly registers, or permits to be registered, a person not entitled to be registered under this title; or (2) inserts, or intentionally permits to be inserted, a name or other entries in any registration card provided for under chapter 5 of this title without a proper application in person on the part of the person registered, except as authorized in this title with respect to armed forces absentees, or without requiring the proper evidence of the right of the applicant to be registered; or (3) materially alters any registration card after the entries have been made, except upon an order of the board or the district court; or (4) refuses to register a person entitled to be registered under this title— shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 763 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter II - Registration Offenses|§ 763. Preventing, or assistance in preventing, registration or change in party enrollment

 Whoever, being a member of a board of elections, or clerk or other employee of the board, or any other person, knowingly and willfully prevents or assists in preventing, or, by coercion, threats of bodily injury, or intimidation, prevents or attempts to prevent, a person from being registered or from changing his political enrollment in accordance with the provisions of this title, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 764 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter II - Registration Offenses|§ 764. Wrongful registration, or attempt to register, by person

 Whoever applies for registration under this title, or notifies the board of elections of a change of his residence address, knowing or having reason to know, that he is not entitled to be registered, or to have his residence address changed, or declares as his residence a place or address which he knows is not his legal residence, or falsely personates another in an application for registration, or knowingly offers false naturalization papers to establish his claim to be registered, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 765 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter II - Registration Offenses|§ 765. Neglect or refusal to furnish information or exhibit records

 Whoever willfully neglects or refuses to furnish to any inspector of registration any information which he is authorized by chapter 5 of this title to obtain, or to exhibit any records, papers or documents authorized by such chapter to be inspected by him, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 766 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter II - Registration Offenses|§ 766. Malicious filing of petition to strike off registration or party affiliation

 Whoever, maliciously and without probable cause, challenges a person under the provisions of sections 101(a) or 108(b), files a petition for the purpose of striking off the registration or party affiliation of an elector, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 781 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 781. Refusal to allow employees time off

 Whoever, being an employer, refuses to allow an employee time off for the purpose of voting, or, after allowing the time off, deducts the time from the wages of the employee, shall be fined not more than $5,000.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 785 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 785. Improper distribution and printing of ballots

 (a) Whoever, having contracted with, or become employed by, the Government of the Virgin Islands to print or reproduce in any manner any official ballot, willfully appropriates to himself, or gives or delivers to, or knowingly permits to be taken by anyone other than a person authorized by the Supervisor of Elections, any official ballots, or knowingly prints or reproduces or causes to be printed or reproduced any official ballots in any other form or with any other content than that prescribed by law or as directed by the Supervisor of Elections, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. (b) As used in subsection (a) of this section, “official ballot” and “official ballots” include any official ballot or ballots prepared or caused to be prepared by the Supervisor of Elections as required by this title, and any unofficial ballot or ballots prepared or caused to be prepared by a board of elections as authorized by section 554 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 786 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 786. Improper possession of ballot

 Whoever, other than an election official or other person authorized by law or by the Supervisor of Elections, has in his possession outside of the voting room any official ballot or unofficial ballot prepared under the authority of section 554 of this title, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 787 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 787. Counterfeiting of ballot

 Whoever makes, or knowingly has in his possession, any counterfeit of an official ballot or of an unofficial ballot prepared under the authority of section 554 of this title, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 788 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 788. Illegal voting

 Whoever willfully, being unqualified to vote at an election, votes thereat, shall, even though not challenged, be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned no more than one year, or both; but such vote shall not invalidate the entire election.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 789 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 789. Voting in false name

 Whoever votes or attempts to vote in the name of another person or in any name other than his own, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 790 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 790. Voting more than once

 Whoever willfully votes or attempts to vote more than once at the same election, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 791 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 791. Refusal to accept vote; acceptance of illegal vote

 Whoever, being an election official, knowingly refuses the vote of a duly registered and qualified elector, or knowingly accepts the vote of a person not registered in accordance with the provisions of this title (except that of an armed forces absentee as provided in chapter 25 of this title, or of a person having an order of the district court), or knowingly receives a vote from a person falsely claiming to be a registered voter, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 792 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 792. Undue influence by force

 Whoever directly or indirectly uses or threatens to use force, coercion, violence or restraint, or inflicts or threatens to inflict damage, harm, or loss, upon or against any person to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting for any candidate in any election, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 793 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 793. Undue influence by gift of money or valuable thing

 Whoever gives or promises to give, or offers any money or valuable thing, to any person with the intent to induce him to vote for or refrain from voting for any candidate at any election, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 794 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 794. Improper disclosure of vote

 Whoever, being an election official or any other person, while the polls are open, opens any ballot marked by, or received from, a voter at any election, or marks a ballot by folding or otherwise so as to be able to recognize it, or otherwise attempts to discover, or, having discovered, discloses how, any person has voted, or allows the same to be done by any other person, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 795 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 795. Improper change of election documents

 Whoever willfully changes or causes to be changed any official election documents, including ballots, tallies, and returns, or attempts to do so, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 796 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 796. Improper delay of election returns

 Whoever willfully delays or causes to be delayed any election returns, or attempts to do so, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 797 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 797. False count by election officials

 Whoever, being an election official, willfully permits or makes or attempts to make any false count of ballots or the election returns, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 798 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 798. Concealment or destruction of ballots or returns by election officials

 Whoever, being an election official, willfully conceals, withholds, or destroys any ballot or election returns, or attempts to do so, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 799 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 799. Improper influence of election by election officials

 Whoever, being an election official, willfully fails to perform any election duty or knowingly does any unauthorized act with the intent to affect the election or its results, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 800 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter III - Election Offenses|§ 800. Time limitation

 No prosecution for any offense defined in this subchapter may be maintained unless it is commenced within one year after the date of the election in connection with which the offense is alleged to have been committed.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 831 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter IV - Absentee Voting Offenses|§ 831. Offenses defined; penalties

 (a) Whoever: (1) being an official, fails, neglects or refuses to perform the duties required of him by chapter 25 of this title; or (2) makes a false statement for the purpose of procuring an absentee ballot, or knowingly assists in procuring such a ballot for a person who is not entitled by law to it; or (3) subscribes to a false statement contained in the affidavit on the envelope containing an absentee ballot; or (4) solicits or attempts to procure for hire, remuneration or reward, a person to vote by absentee ballot or to make application for such a ballot; or (5) uses an absentee ballot for any purpose except to vote the same; or (6) prior to the closing of the polls on election day, shows or exhibits an unsealed absentee ballot to any person other than an official or officer authorized to administer the oath required by section 665 of this title; or (7) not being entitled to vote as an absentee under chapter 25 of this title, votes or attempts to vote as such an absentee; or (8) being entitled to vote as an absentee under chapter 25 of this title, knowingly votes or attempts to vote in violation of such chapter; or (9) knowingly violates a provision of chapter 25 of this title— shall, for each offense, be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, and shall be deprived of his voting privileges for a period of five years, commencing from the date of his conviction by the court. (b) Any court convicting a person of an offense under this section shall forthwith transmit a certificate of such conviction to the board of elections for the legislative district in which such person has his legal voting residence. The board shall retain such certificate with its records.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 851 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 27 - Offenses and Penalties|Subchapter V - Miscellaneous Offenses|§ 851. False statements; false swearing

 Whoever: (1) With regard to a material matter or thing relating to any subject investigated, heard, or acted upon by any board of elections or member thereof, or by any election officer, clerk, watcher, inspector of registration, court or judge by virtue of this title, willfully makes any false statement under oath or affirmation; or (2) willfully makes a false affidavit or swears falsely under any oath required or provided for or permitted by this title, or willfully swears or affirms falsely under an oath required or provided for or permitted by this title— shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.