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US
Virgin Islands
General Right to
Vote
Electoral Law:
(Title 18)
Section 93, subsection (a) refers to Revised Organic Act of the
Virgin Islands of 1954 for voting qualifications.
Section 261 states: "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."
Specific Inclusion
of People with Disabilities
Electoral Law:
(Title 18)
Note 2 after section 261 states: "Persons having a physical
disability preventing them from reading or writing, or both, who are citizens
in good standing, and who could read and write prior to their disability,
should be permitted to register and vote., 3V.I.Op.A.G.289."
Exclusion Based
on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(Title 18)
Section 263, subsection (c) states: "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."
Voter Assistance
by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(Title 18)
Section 585 states: "If a voter is unable by reason of physical
disability
to mark his ballot or to mark same in an informed manner
he may, if he declares to the judge of the election, under oath, that
he is so disabled
and the judge of the election is satisfied, from
the contents of the voter's registration card or other convincing proof,
as to the truth of such declaration, have the assistance of a person of
his own selection to mark his ballot or to read the ballot for him. Such
person so selected shall be sworn, may accompany the voter into the voting
booth, and shall either mark the ballot as directed by the voter in the
case of physical disability
and shall thereafter give no information
regarding the same. Such person so selected may assist only one voter
in any primary or general election."
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