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V.I. Code tit. 18, § 193 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 9 - Polling Districts and Places; Booths|§ 193. Polling districts for the Island of St. Croix and adjacent islets and cays

 There shall be five polling districts for the Island of St. Croix and adjacent islets and cays, as follows: (1) The Eastern polling district of Christiansted Town, comprising that portion of the Town of Christiansted bounded on the north by the sea, on the east and south by the territorial limits of the Town of Christiansted, and on the west by a line commencing at the intersection of said southern territorial limits with the center line of Prince's Street and extending thence northwardly along the center line of Prince's Street to the Water Gut and thence eastwardly along the center line of the Water Gut to the Sea; (2) The Western polling district of Christiansted Town, comprising that portion of the Town of Christiansted not included in the Eastern polling district of Christiansted Town; (3) The Christiansted Country polling district, comprising Northside B, King's, Queen's, Company, East End A and East End B quarters of the Island of Saint Croix and Buck Island; (4) The Frederiksted Town polling district, comprising the town of Frederiksted; and (5) The Frederiksted Country polling district, comprising Northside A, Prince's and West End quarters of the Island of Saint Croix.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 194 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 9 - Polling Districts and Places; Booths|§ 194. Polling places to be fixed by election boards

 (a) The board of elections in each election district shall select and fix as many polling places for each polling district under its jurisdiction, herein or hereafter established as it may deem necessary. For the Island of St. Thomas and St. Croix, the polling places for any polling district may be located outside such polling district if convenience of the voter will be promoted thereby. (b) In order to facilitate the widest possible voter participation, and to minimize confusion as to the location of polling places, the board of elections of each election district shall provide for the utilization of the same polling places in use in 1968 in the respective polling districts for both the primary and general elections of 1970, so that all qualified electors who voted in 1968 may be able to vote at the same polling places in the 1970 primary and general elections.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 195 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 9 - Polling Districts and Places; Booths|§ 195. Same; use of public buildings

 (a) In selecting polling places, each board of elections shall, whenever possible and practicable, select schoolhouses or other public, civic, or fraternal buildings for that purpose. Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, the Commissioner of Education, or other proper official or officials, shall, upon request of the board, make arrangements for the use of school or other public property for polling places. (b) Schools or other public property shall be so used for polling places as not to interfere with the use thereof for the purposes for which they are primarily intended.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 196 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 9 - Polling Districts and Places; Booths|§ 196. Equipment and arrangement of polling places; guard rail; number of booths

 (a) Each board of elections shall cause all rooms used as polling places to be suitably provided with light and with a sufficient number of voting compartments or booths with proper supplies, in which electors may conveniently mark their ballots, with a curtain, screen or door in the upper part of the front of each compartment or booth so that in the marking thereof they may be screened from the observation of others. Each polling place shall consist of a single room, every part of which is within the unobstructed view of those present therein, and shall have a guard rail or barrier enclosing the inner portion of such room, which guard rail or barrier shall be constructed and placed at the express direction of the chairman of the board of elections in the election district so that only such persons as are inside the rail or barrier can approach within six feet of the ballot box and voting compartments or booths. The ballot box and voting compartments or booths shall be so arranged in the voting room within the enclosed space as to be in full view of those persons in the room outside such guard rail or barrier. (b) [Deleted.] (c) The board may make such arrangements as it deems proper for the storage of election equipment in the various polling districts of its legislative district at such times of the year when it will not be used for election purposes, and may fix reasonable compensation therefor.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 197 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 9 - Polling Districts and Places; Booths|§ 197. Compensation for rent and light

 Each board of elections shall fix the compensation for rent, light and janitorial services to be paid for the use of polling places for primaries and elections, within the legislative district, but no compensation for rent or light shall be paid in the case of schoolhouses or other public buildings used as polling places.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 231 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Dates of Elections and Primaries|§ 231. General elections

 General elections shall be held in the Virgin Islands on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, beginning with the year 1964, and every two years thereafter, for the purpose of choosing members of the legislature and such other public officers as are required by law to be elected.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 232 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 11 - Dates of Elections and Primaries|§ 232. Primary elections

 Party primary elections shall be held in the Virgin Islands on the first Saturday of August for the purpose of choosing candidates for nomination to public offices to be voted for at the ensuing general election. The Board of Elections will be responsible for certifying the process to be used by any political party to select party officers and candidates for public-office.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 261 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 13 - Qualifications of Electors|§ 261. Qualifications generally

 Except as provided in this chapter, every resident of the Virgin Islands, who is a citizen of the United States and is 18 years of age or over, has the right to franchise, and shall be entitled to vote at all elections if he or she has complied with the provisions of this title requiring and regulating the registration of its electors.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 262 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 13 - Qualifications of Electors|§ 262. Residence defined

 (a) For the purposes of this title, “resident of the Virgin Islands” is a person who has maintained legal residence in the Virgin Islands and in the election district in which he desires to vote for a period of at least 90 days next preceding the date of the election. A registered voter of an election district, who is temporarily residing in another election district and expects to continue such temporary residence until after the ensuing primary or general election, may, in the manner provided by section 107 of this title, and upon application at least 30 days before the primary or election, transfer his registration to the election district in which he is temporarily residing. In all cases of doubt as to legal residence, the board of elections shall request the registrant to submit substantial and satisfactory proof that he has fulfilled the legal residence requirement. The domicile, which is the registrant's legal residence, shall be determined in accordance with the following rules: (1) Every person has a domicile. (2) There can be but one domicile. (3) Legal residence or domicile is the place where a person habitually resides when not called elsewhere to work or for some temporary purpose and to which such person returns in season for rest. (4) Legal domicile or residence may be changed by joinder of act and intent. (5) A domicile cannot be lost until a new one has been acquired. (b) This section shall be strictly enforced by the boards of elections.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 263 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 13 - Qualifications of Electors|§ 263. Loss of franchise by felon; mental incompetents

 (a) No inmate of a public or private institution for the insane and no person under the care of a guardian by reason of any mental incapacity shall be entitled to vote. (b) Every person who has been convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction of a felony or of a crime involving moral turpitude shall be debarred from voting while serving out his sentence, including any period of incarceration, probation, or parole. (c) The right to vote is automatically restored to every person convicted of a felony upon completion of all the conditions of the person's sentence, including any period of incarceration, probation, parole, or payment of restitution.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 264 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 13 - Qualifications of Electors|§ 264. Status of members of armed forces as to franchise

 For the purpose of this title, no person on active duty in the armed services of the United States or any person residing on active military reservations shall be deemed to have acquired residence in the Virgin Islands in consequence of having been stationed within the same.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 265 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 13 - Qualifications of Electors|§ 265. Certified Listing of Electors

 The Boards of Elections shall provide political parties with a certified listing of all registered party members as of the close of registration, fifteen days prior to a primary election.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 301 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Organization of Political Parties|§ 301. Political parties and political bodies

 (a) Any political party in the Virgin Islands which is the officially recognized affiliate of either of the two major national political parties (of either the Democratic National Committee or the Republican National Committee) and each other political party or political body, one of whose candidates for election for a territorial office at the last preceding general election polled not less than five percent (5%) of the total number of valid ballots cast in the territory, shall be recognized as a political party within the territory, and, except as provided in sections 307 and 359 of this title or as otherwise provided by law, shall nominate all its candidates for public office, and shall elect the members of its territorial committee and such other party officers as its rules provide, by a vote of the electors enrolled as members of the party at the primary election in accordance with the provisions of this title. However, any political party or political body shall not be required to meet the 5% requirement of the total ballots cast, as provided under this subsection, but shall be automatically recognized as a political party within the territory, if the political party or political body has met the 5% requirement for at least ten (10) consecutive years. (b) Any political group which is not a political party but which has nominated candidates for at least two public offices by nomination papers under subchapter II of chapter 17 of this title, shall be deemed to be a political body for the purposes of this title, but such political body may not nominate its candidate or elect its party officers at primary elections held under the provisions of this title. (c) Whenever a political party in the Virgin Islands affiliates with a national political party, committee, convention or organization, regardless of when such affiliation took place, no association, group, club, organization or instrumentality shall use the symbol, emblem, or insignia, of the national political party, convention, committee or organization which has affiliated with a Virgin Islands political party, without the express consent in writing from the chairman and secretary of the Virgin Islands political party filed with the Supervisor of Elections. A petition for an injunction to restrain such association, club, group or instrumentality from using such symbol, emblem, or insignia may be filed in the District Court by the officers of said affiliated political party and/or the Supervisor of Elections. (d) The Chairman and the Secretary of any political party which is affiliated with a national political party may certify to the Supervisor of Elections at least twenty-eight (28) days prior to an election the emblem or emblems of such national party with which it is affiliated and such certification shall be prima facie evidence of such emblem or emblems of such national party.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 302 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Organization of Political Parties|§ 302. Only enrolled electors to vote at primaries or hold party offices

 No person who is not registered and enrolled as a member of a political party may vote at any primary election of such party, be elected to serve as a party officer or a member or officer of any party committee or as a delegate or alternate to any party convention, or be nominated for public office at any primary election of such party.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 303 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Organization of Political Parties|§ 303. Territorial committees

 (a) Each political party in the Virgin Islands shall have a territorial committee which shall be comprised of thirty (30) elected members as follows: (1) eight (8) members from the election district of St. Thomas-St. John, six (6) of whom shall reside on St. Thomas and two (2) of whom shall reside on St. John; (2) six (6) members from the election district of St. Croix; and (3) sixteen (16) at large members, of whom not less than seven (7) shall reside on St. Croix and not less than seven (7) shall reside on St. Thomas. (b) In addition to the elected members of the territorial committee of a political party there shall be such ex officio members as provided for by party rules, but not to exceed twenty (20) voting ex officio members. Such ex officio members shall have such powers and duties as set forth in the party rules. (c) The elected members of the territorial committee of a political party shall be elected at the primary election and shall serve for two (2) years. Each elector enrolled in a political party may, at the primary election, vote for members of the territorial committee up to the number at large and for the election district in which he registered to vote.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 304 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Organization of Political Parties|§ 304. Organization of territorial committees; rules

 (a) The members of the territorial committee shall meet for organization within 10 days following the primary, at such hour and place as shall be designated by the territorial chairman of each political party; provided, however, that the Supervisor of Elections shall designate the hour and place of the organization meeting of the first territorial committee of each party. The territorial committee of each political party shall make such rules for the government of the party in the territory that are not inconsistent with law, as it may deem expedient. No such rules shall be effective until a certified copy thereof has been filed in the office of the Supervisor of Elections. (b) The Supervisor of Elections, with the assistance of the boards of elections, shall prepare and certify rosters of the names and addresses of persons enrolling as members of each political party, and shall transmit such rosters to the Chairman of the territorial committee of each political party within 20 days after organization of its first territorial committee.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 305 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Organization of Political Parties|§ 305. Other party committees and offices

 The members of all other party committees, and all other party officers, whose election is required by the party rules, shall be elected at the primary in the manner provided by this title; provided, that in any event, where the party rules provide for such offices, the national committeeman, the national committeewoman, the state chairman, and a district chairman each for the Islands of St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas shall be elected at the primary election and shall serve for two (2) years, except that commencing with the year 1972 the national committeeman and the national committeewoman elected shall serve for four (4) years if the party rules so provide.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 306 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Organization of Political Parties|§ 306. Candidates who shall be declared elected to party offices; tie vote

 (a) Candidates for the various political parties for party offices who receive a plurality of the votes of the party electors at a primary election shall be declared elected. (b) In the case of a tie vote for any party office, the candidates receiving the tie vote shall cast lots before the Supervisor of Elections or his deputy at a time and place to be fixed by the Supervisor of Elections and the one to whom the lot shall fall shall be declared elected. If any candidate receiving a tie vote fails to appear at the time and place fixed by the Supervisor of Elections the Supervisor of Elections or his deputy, as the case may be, shall cast lots for him. For the purpose of casting lots, any candidate may appear in person, or by proxy appointed in writing.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 307 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 15 - Organization of Political Parties|§ 307. Primary for particular office prohibited if number of nomination petitions exactly equals number to be elected; declaration of election

 If the number of candidates who filed nomination petitions for a particular party office exactly equals the number of persons who are to be elected to such office, no party primary with respect to such office shall be held, and, in such a case, the Supervisor of Elections shall declare the candidates who filed the petitions to be elected to such party office.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 521 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 20 - Electronic Voting System|§ 521. Adoption of system; procurement and commercial tabulations

 The Joint Boards of Elections shall, with the consultation and assistance of the Supervisor of Elections and the Commissioner of Property and Procurement, acquire by competitive bidding, as required by the procurement laws of the Virgin Islands, not less than one hundred ten (110) electronic voting machines and related equipment for the purpose of conducting all party primaries, general elections, and referenda, and for receiving, registering, and counting the votes thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 522 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 20 - Electronic Voting System|§ 522. Examination and approval of equipment

 Any person or company interested in selling an electronic voting system may submit its proposal to the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, through the Joint Boards of Elections, the Supervisor of Elections and/or the Department of Property and Procurement of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, for examination. The vote counting segment shall be certified after a satisfactory evaluation testing has been performed according to electronic industry standards. The testing shall include, but not be limited to, the basic source program and its security; the ballot reader; the vote processor, especially in its logic and memory components; the digital printer; the fail-safe operations; the counting center environmental requirements; and the equipment reliability estimate. For the purpose of assisting in examining the system, the Joint Boards may employ not more than three individuals who are expert in one or more fields of data processing, mechanical engineering, and public administration and shall require from them a written report of their examination. No officer of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, no member of the Legislature of the Virgin Islands, no member of the Board of Elections, the Supervisor of Elections, no employee of the Election System of the Virgin Islands, nor any examiner shall have any pecuniary interest in any voting equipment. The Joint Boards of Elections and the Supervisor of Elections shall approve or disapprove any voting system submitted to them within 20 days after the date of its initial submission.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 523 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 20 - Electronic Voting System|§ 523. Requirements for approval of system

 No electronic voting system shall be approved for use in the Virgin Islands unless it is so constructed that: (1) It permits and requires voting in secrecy; (2) It permits each elector to vote at any election for all persons and offices for whom and for which he is lawfully entitled to vote, and no others; to vote for as many persons for an office as he is entitled to vote for; and to vote for or against any question upon which he is entitled to vote; (3) The electronic voting system may be set to reject all votes for any office or measure when the number of votes therefor exceeds the number which the voter is entitled to cast or when the voter is not entitled to cast a vote for the office or measure; (4) It is capable of correctly counting votes; (5) When used in primary elections, the electronic voting equipment will count votes for the candidates of one part; reject all votes for an office when the number of votes therefor exceeds the number which the voter is entitled to cast; and reject all votes of a voter cast for candidates of more than one party; (6) It provides a method for write-in or paste-in voting; (7) It is capable of accumulating a count of the specific number of votes tallied for a polling place, accumulating total votes by candidate for each office, and accumulating total votes for and against each question and issue of the ballots tallied for a polling place; (8) It is capable of tallying votes from ballots of different parties from the same polling place, in the case of a primary election; (9) It is capable of automatically producing precinct totals in printed form; and (10) Deleted. (11) It is accessible for persons with disabilities, including persons who are blind or have low vision.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 524 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 20 - Electronic Voting System|§ 524. Joint Boards of Elections to prescribe rules and regulations

 The Joint Boards of Elections shall prescribe rules and regulations to achieve and maintain the maximum degree of correctness, impartiality and efficiency of the procedures of voting, counting, tabulating, and recording votes, by the electronic or voting systems and methods provided by law.