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Home » US Law » 2019 US Virgin Islands Code » Title 18 - Elections » Chapter 19 - Ballots and Ballot Boxes » Subchapter IV - Electronic Voting Machines; Official Election Format

§ 501. Electronic voting machines; format

(a) All ballots shall be designed so that they are in plain clear type as the space will reasonably permit, capitalizing only the first letters and initials of each name. The names of parties or political bodies which contain more than twenty-two letters may, whenever limitations of space so require, be listed on the ballot […]

§ 502. Form for referenda

Proposed referenda or other questions submitted shall appear on the electronic voting machine. The electronic voting machine shall contain buttons indicating “yes” or “no” and the questions shall be numbered consecutively on the face of the ballot.

§ 503. Facsimile and sample

The Supervisor of Elections shall provide facsimile and sample ballots which shall be arranged in the form of a diagram showing such part of the face of the electronic voting machine as shall be in use at that election under the direction of the District Board. Such facsimile and sample ballots shall be either in […]

§ 506. Testing of tabulating equipment

(a) On any day not more than 10 days prior to the election day, the Supervisor of Elections shall have the electronic voting machines tested to ascertain that the equipment will correctly count the votes cast for all offices and on all measures. Public notice of the time and place of the test shall be […]

§ 507. Examination of equipment during voting

A member of the board of elections, or a designee of the board of elections, shall occasionally examine the face of the electronic voting machine and the ballot information to determine that the machine and the ballot information have not been tampered with or damaged.

§ 508. Election contests

Except as herein provided, certification and election contests shall be conducted as otherwise provided in chapter 23 of this title. Automatic tabulating equipment shall be tested prior to the recount of election contests, as provided in section 506 of this subchapter and then the official ballots or ballot cards shall be recertified on the equipment. […]