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Home » US Law » 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, […]

§ 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 […]

§ 94a. Early voting

(a) As a convenience to the electors, the Board of Elections shall allow an elector to vote early in the main, or branch office of the Supervisor of Elections for the respective district. The Supervisor of Elections shall mark, code, indicate on, or otherwise track the elector’s precinct for each early voted ballot. In order […]

§ 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 […]

§ 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 […]

§ 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 […]

§ 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.

§ 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) […]