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V.I. Code tit. 18, § 92 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 92. Investigative and enforcement powers of board members and inspectors of registration

 Any member of a board of elections, and any inspector of registration when directed by the board of elections under which he serves, may: (1) at any time prior to 30 days before any primary or general election and after 5 days from such election, investigate all questions relating to the registration of electors in his election district, and, for that purpose, enter and inspect any house, dwelling, building, inn, lodginghouse or hotel in such district, and interrogate any inmate, householder, lodger, lessee, keeper, caretaker, owner, proprietor, or agent therein, regarding any person residing or claiming to reside thereat or therein; provided, that no such entry, inspection or interrogation shall be made except upon warrant issued by a judge of a court of record. A warrant shall issue only on an affidavit sworn to before the judge by a person who has been duly appointed as a member of a board of elections or an inspector of registration setting forth the purpose and necessity for the same, a description of the premises to be entered, and the name of the registered elector or applicant for registration, residing or claiming to reside therein who is being investigated. If the judge is satisfied that sufficient grounds for the warrant exist, he shall issue the same identifying the registered elector or applicant for registration who is being investigated, the premises to be entered, and the parts thereof, if any, to be inspected. Any entry, inspection or interrogation hereunder shall be made only in the daytime between the hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., except upon a satisfactory showing to the judge that the information sought could not be obtained except at other times. (2) inspect in like manner and copy any register of lodgers in any lodginghouse, inn or hotel relating to or affecting the right of any person to vote or to be registered in such district; and (3) call on any police or peace officer within the district to assist him in the maintenance of peace at any place of registration or in making any arrest.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 93 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 93. Who may register; who may vote; electors need register only once; exception

 (a) Every person who possesses all the qualifications of an elector as provided in this title and the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954, or any other law hereafter applicable to the Virgin Islands, or who, by continued residence in this district, will have obtained such qualifications before the next ensuing election, shall be entitled to register as herein provided. No person shall be permitted to vote at any election or primary held in any election district unless he shall have been so registered, except by order of the district court as hereinafter provided; and no elector so registered shall be required to register again for any election or primary while he continues to reside at the same address, unless his registration is cancelled by reason of his failure to vote at two consecutive general elections as provided in section 116 of this title. (b) The provisions and requirements for registration as set forth in this title shall not apply to persons otherwise entitled to vote, who are, at the time of the election, or at any time within 60 days prior to an election have been, engaged in the military service of the United States, and who appear personally at the polling place on election day and produce to the registrar or any authorized inspector of registration, satisfactory evidence thereof. Such persons, if otherwise qualified to vote, shall be permitted to vote at such election without previous registration.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 94 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 94. Registration period

 (a) The offices of each board of elections shall be open for the examination and registration of electors every day from 8:00 o'clock a.m. to 5:00 o'clock p.m., except Saturday, Sunday, legal holidays and except during the period of 30 days immediately preceding and five days immediately following each election. An employee of the election system of the Virgin Islands who has been appointed by the Supervisor of Elections to be a registrar pursuant to subsection (b) of this section or any board member shall examine and register applicants who present themselves at the offices of the board for registration pursuant to this subsection. (b) The Supervisor of Elections may appoint any full-time employee of the election system of the Virgin Islands to act as a registrar. A registrar shall be empowered to register electors pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section. A registrar shall be a qualified elector of the district in which he is appointed, and shall take an oath of office prescribed by the Supervisor of Elections. Registrars may be removed by the Supervisor for cause. Employees of the election system who are appointed registrars shall receive no additional compensation for serving as registrars. (c) The Board of Elections of each district, or a part thereof of not less than two members, shall sit for the purpose of examining and registering qualified electors on such days and at such times and places in addition to those provided in subsection (a) of this section as it may deem necessary or advisable for the accommodation of electors, except that no electors shall be registered during the period of 30 days immediately preceding and five days immediately following each election. The Supervisor shall insure that there be at least one full-time registrar who is fluent in both Spanish and English present at the offices of each board of elections every day in each week in which the offices are open for the examination and registration of electors.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 95 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 95. Place of registration

 (a) Registration shall be made at such place or places in each election district as the board of elections of the district may designate. (b) In addition to the places designated for registration pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, the Board of Elections of each district shall arrange with the Commissioner of Education and the President of the University of the Virgin Islands to conduct registration of students who are qualified electors for one week each during the fall and spring semesters at each public and vocational school and at the St. Thomas and St. Croix campuses of the University of the Virgin Islands. In election years, the Board shall conduct the week of registration in the fall at least two weeks prior to the closing of registration for the general election. The Board shall insure that notice of the registration be given during a period of not less than two weeks prior to each week of registration. Such notice shall include, but shall not be limited to, the posting of appropriate notices in conspicuous places at each school or college campus. The Board shall further plan and present appropriate educational and informational programs in conjunction with each week of voter registration. (c) With the concurrence and cooperation of the head or director of each private and parochial school, the Board shall conduct voter registration and educational and informational programs in such school similar to those conducted pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 96 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 96. Notice of registration

 Within seven days before the first day of each month, the Chairman of the Board of Elections for each election district shall cause to be published in the local newspapers of general circulation in his district, and posted at the offices of the Board and at three public places in the district, the places and hours at which registration will be made in that district during the ensuing month. Such notice shall include the dates upon which registrars who are fluent in both Spanish and English shall be present at each place of registration. The notices required by this section shall be printed in both English and Spanish.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 97 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 97. Attendance of board or registrars at registration place

 The places of elector registration established pursuant to section 95 of this title shall be open continuously during the hours specified in the public notices published pursuant to section 96 of this title. During the time any elector is being registered, only members of the board, registrars appointed by the Supervisor of Elections, clerical staff of the board, the Supervisor of Elections, one watcher for each political party, and persons being registered may be in the place of registration. Each watcher must obtain a certificate from the board of elections stating his name and the name of the political party which he represents. No such certificate may be provided to any person unless such person satisfies the board that he has been selected as a watcher by the territorial committee of the political party.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 98 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 98. Closing time of registration place

 All applicants entitled to register who are in the place where the registration is held at or before the time of closing shall be allowed to register if qualified.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 99 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 99. Registration cards; preparation and distribution

 (a) For the purpose of registering the qualified electors of the election districts, the Supervisor of Elections shall prepare and furnish to each board of elections registration cards, serially numbered, in duplicate, and containing spaces for entering the information required by section 100 of this title, and the following affidavit:I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the United States, that I am not a registered voter in any other state or territory of the United States or in any foreign country or in any other election district, that on the day of the next election I shall be at least 18 years of age and shall have resided for a period of 90 days next preceding said election in the Territory of the Virgin Islands and in this election district for at least 30 days next preceding said election, that I am legally qualified to vote, that I have read (or have had read to me) the foregoing statements made in connection with my registration and that they are true and correct.Subscribed and sworn to before me this ____ day of____, 19____.Signature of VoterSignature of Board Member or Clerk (b) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section, the Supervisor of Elections shall prescribe the form of such registration cards. (c) Each card shall be printed on stock of good quality, shall be of uniform size, and shall be filled out in duplicate for each applicant for registration. The Supervisor of Elections shall provide and furnish to the board suitable methods for filing and indexing the registration cards. His information may be filed, indexed and stored electronically. (d) The Supervisor of Elections shall develop and implement a uniform and nondiscriminatory primary, official, centralized, interactive computerized territorial voter registration list defined, maintained and administered at the territorial level. The list must include the following: (1) The computer list must serve as the single system for storing and managing the official list of registered voters throughout the territory; (2) The computerized list must contain the name and registration information of every registered voter in the territory; (3) Under the computerized list, a unique identifier is assigned to each legally registered voter in the territory; (4) The computerized list must be coordinated with other databases in the territory, including the Department of Health and Federal Social Security records; and (5) The computerized list must serve as the official voter registration list for the conduct of all federal and local elections.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 101 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 101. Applicants to register may be challenged; procedure; challenge affidavit

 (a) Any person claiming the right to register may be challenged by any member of the board of elections or by a qualified elector of the election district. Any person so challenged shall answer the questions of the challenge affidavit, as herein specified, and, after his answers have been recorded, he shall subscribe to them by his signature, and swear to their truth. (b) The affidavits of all persons so registered shall be filed with the duplicate registration affidavits. (c) The challenge affidavit shall be, in form, prescribed by the Supervisor of Elections, and shall contain spaces for the following information: (1) Serial number; (2) place and date of execution; (3) full name of challenged applicant; (4) whether he is married or single; (5) if married, where his family resides; (6) if single, where his parents reside; (7) where applicant actually resided immediately before he took up his present residence; (8) his residence for the four months immediately preceding date of execution; (9) the name of his present employer; (10) the election district, and town and street and number, if any, of his place of business; (11) the name of his last employer, and the year in which he left his employ; (12) the election district, and town and street and number, if any, of said last employer's place of business; (13) sex of the applicant; (14) the date of his birth; and (15) such distinguishing marks, peculiarities, and further information for identification as the board shall prescribe. (d) The challenged applicant shall produce at least one qualified elector of the polling district as a witness who shall make affidavit of his residence in the polling district. If such challenged applicant shall establish his right to be registered as required by this chapter, he shall be permitted to be registered. (e) Any person making application to be enrolled as a member of a political party for the purpose of voting at primaries may be challenged by any qualified elector of the election district. Any person so challenged shall be enrolled as a member of such party if he shall certify in writing that he subscribes to the policies of the party; but if he is unable or unwilling to make such a certificate, he shall be denied enrollment as a member of such party, but he shall not be deemed to be guilty of any violation or attempted violation of any law by reason thereof. This subsection shall become effective after the general election in 1964.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 102 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 102. Incomplete or rejected application to be recorded

 A member of the Board of Elections, the clerk, or the registrar shall record on registration cards the surname, Christian name or names, and street and number of residence of each person who applies for registration, whether or not the application is accepted. Whenever the applicant is rejected or the card is voided after a portion of the record has been filled in, the registration card or cards shall be marked “Applicant Rejected” or “card voided” and the Board member, clerk, or registrar shall note thereon the reason for the rejection, or the reason why the card is voided, and shall sign his name thereto. The Board member, clerk, or registrar shall forthwith personally notify the applicant if his application for registration is rejected. All such cards shall be preserved for a period of two years.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 103 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 103. Appeal of rejected applicant

 Any person whose application to be registered has been denied by a part of the board of elections, may file a petition with the board, not later than the twentieth day prior to an election or primary, setting forth the ground of his complaint under oath, and praying to be registered. The board shall fix a time for a public hearing thereof at its office not later than the fifteenth day prior to the election or primary. At the time so fixed, the board shall hear and dispose of the petition, having first given at least forty-eight hours' notice of the hearing to the board members who rejected the petitioner's application for registration. The board, if satisfied that the petitioner is entitled to be registered, shall direct a board member, or clerk, to register him in the usual manner, and shall amend accordingly the records affected, but any qualified elector of the election district may appear and show cause why the petitioner should not be registered.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 104 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 104. General register

 The duplicate registration cards for the entire election district shall be placed in exact alphabetical order, and shall be kept at the office of the board in a place and in such manner as to be properly safeguarded. These cards shall constitute the general register of the election district, and shall not be removed from the office of the board except upon order of a court of record. The general register may be compiled in an electronic format.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 105 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 105. District registers

 (a) The original registration cards shall be filed by polling districts, and within each polling district, in exact alphabetical order. The cards so filed for each polling district shall constitute the district register for such district. The district register and any and all subdivisions thereof, shall be kept at the office of the board except when used at primaries and elections, as hereinafter provided, and shall be open to public inspection at all times, subject to reasonable safeguards, rules and regulations. (b) If more than one polling place for a polling district is established under section 194 of this title, the district register for such district shall be subdivided into separate registers for each such polling place according to such allotment of the registered voters of the district among the polling places by area of residence, alphabetical position of surname or otherwise as the board of elections of the election district may prescribe. The names of the registered voters thus allotted to each polling place shall be arranged in the subdivision of the district register provided for such polling place in exact alphabetical order. (c) The district register may be compiled in an electronic format.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 106 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 106. Removal notices

 The Supervisor of Elections shall provide and furnish to the boards removal notices, which they shall cause to be made available for the convenient use of registered electors. These notices shall be printed upon cards suitable for mailing, addressed to the office of the board, and shall contain spaces wherein the elector shall write—(1) the election district and the polling district, with the street or road and number, if any, of his present residence, and the specific location thereof, including the number of the room or rooms, apartment, flat, or floor, if his residence is a portion only of a house; (2) the election district and the polling district, with the street or road, and number, if any, of the address from which he was last registered; (3) the date of his removal to his present residence; and (4) space wherein the elector shall sign his name. The removal notice shall contain a statement that the elector may, by filling out properly and signing a removal notice and returning it to the office of the board of elections of the election district in which he is registered, secure the transfer of his registration to the polling district in which he resides, effective as to elections and primaries occurring at least 30 days after the date of his removal into the new district. Each removal notice shall contain a warning to the elector that the notice will not be accepted as an application for transfer of the elector's registration unless the signature thereon can be identified by the board as the elector's signature in the general and district registers. Each removal notice, to be effective, must be received at the office of the board at least 30 days prior to any primary or election, which warning shall also be contained on the removal notice.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 107 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 107. Transfer of registration

 (a) Upon receipt, not later than the thirtieth day next preceding any primary or election, of a signed removal notice properly filled out, or signed request containing the required information and setting forth a removal of residence to another location in the territory, the board shall cause the signature thereon to be compared with the signature on the registration card of the elector from whom the removal notice purports to come, and, if the signature shall appear authentic, shall enter the change of residence in the general and district registers, and, if the removal shall have been from one polling district to another in the same election district, shall transfer the registration card of the elector from the district register of the polling district of his previous residence, to the district register of the polling district of his new residence, and if the removal shall have been from one election district to another, shall remove the registration cards of the elector from the general and district registers and transmit them to the board of the election district in which the elector resides for insertion in the general register and appropriate district register of that district. (b) Every elector who is recorded as having voted at a primary election shall be entitled to vote at the succeeding general election at the same polling place (or within the same polling district if such polling place shall have been changed between the time of the primary and the election) where he voted in such primary, notwithstanding any other provision of this Code; provided, however, that an elector may voluntarily transfer his registration pursuant to the provisions of this section.