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
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."

• Electoral Law provisions above are drawn from Westlaw's database.