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Home » US Law » 2019 US Virgin Islands Code » Title 18 - Elections » Chapter 7 - Election Officers

§ 152. Qualifications of election officers and clerks

(a) Election officers and clerks shall be qualified registered electors of the election district in which they are appointed. (b) No election officer or clerk shall be eligible for any public office to be voted for at a primary or election at which he shall serve. (c) The boards of elections may appoint special election […]

§ 153. Election officers and clerks to be sworn

(a) Pursuant to section 151, subsection (a) of this title, all judges, inspectors, voting machine monitors, and clerks of election shall be duly sworn by the Chairman of the Board of Elections of the district in which they are to serve, or, in his absence, by another member of the Board. Each of them shall […]

§ 154. Oath of election officers

The following shall be the form of the oath of each judge, inspector, voting machine monitor or clerk of election I, ____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will as judge, inspector, voting machine monitor or clerk duly attend the ensuing election (or primary) during the continuance thereof in the polling district for which […]

§ 157. Power of election officers to administer oaths

The judge and inspectors of election may administer oaths or affirmations to any person claiming the right to vote, or to his witnesses, or in any matter or thing required to be done or inquired into by them under this title.

§ 158. Compensation of election officers and clerks

(a) For each primary or election, election officers and clerks shall receive compensation from the board of elections which appointed them, as follows: 1. Each judge of election, $150. 2. Each inspector of election, $125. 3. Each clerk of election, $100. 4. Each voting machine monitor, $100. (b) Each of the election officials whose compensation […]

§ 159. Immunity from arrest

Judges, inspectors, and clerks of election shall be privileged from arrest upon days of primaries and elections, and while engaged in making up and transmitting returns, except upon the warrant of a court of record, or judge thereof, for an election fraud, for felony, or for wanton breach of the peace.