Title 18 — Elections
17 chapters · 232 sections in this title.
18 V.I.C. § 551 Notices of primaries and general elections
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(a) Not less than three weeks before each primary and each general election, the board of elections for each election district shall post a notice in three public places in its district, which notice shall specify the time of the primary or election, the location of the polling p…
18 V.I.C. § 552 Watchers
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(a) Each candidate for nomination or election at a primary may appoint two watchers in each polling place in which such candidate is to be voted for. (b) Each political party or political body which has nominated candidates in accordance with this title, and each nominated indepe…
18 V.I.C. § 553 Delivery of supplies, certificates, district registers, ballots, and ballot boxes to judges of election
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(a) The cards of instructions referred to in section 514 of this title, return sheets, tally papers, statements, oaths of election officers, affidavits, voters' certificates, sample ballots, and other forms and supplies required for use in each polling district, and in each polli…
18 V.I.C. § 554 Unofficial ballots
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If from any cause the official ballots have not been received at a polling place on the morning of a primary or election and before the opening of the polls, or if the supply of ballots shall become exhausted during the process of balloting and before the polls are closed, the bo…
18 V.I.C. § 555 Hours polls open; persons inside at time of closing
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At all primaries and elections, the polls shall be open from 7:00 a.m., until 7:00 p.m. All persons entitled to vote who are present at the place where the primary or election is being held at or before the time of closing the polls shall be allowed to vote.
18 V.I.C. § 556 Electioneering prohibited
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(a) There may be no electioneering within 200 feet of the polling place property boundary lines, as designated by the chairman of the board of elections in the election district, prior to the date of a primary or general election, as the polling grounds incidental to the polling …
18 V.I.C. § 557 Assistance of police
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The Police Commissioner shall provide police protection at each polling place for the duration of the primary and election. The election officers, or any three qualified electors of a polling district, may call upon any police officer present to clear an avenue to the door of the…
18 V.I.C. § 558 Meeting of election officers on day of election
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The election officers shall meet at the polling place to which they were assigned at least one (1) hour before the hour for opening the polls on the day of each primary or election. Any person who is selected to fill a vacancy or a temporary vacancy after the time for swearing in…
18 V.I.C. § 559 Duties of election officers
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(a) After the election officers and clerks have subscribed their oaths required by section 558 of this title, the judge of election shall designate one of the inspectors of election to have custody of the district register and to make the entries therein required by section 582 o…
18 V.I.C. § 560 Opening of polls; posting of instructions and sample ballots
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The election officers shall, after taking the oath, open the ballot boxes which have been furnished to them, before opening of the polls. Not earlier than one hour prior to the opening of the polls, but subsequent to compliance with section 153 of this title, the seals of the pac…
18 V.I.C. § 581 Personal voting required; persons permitted to vote; change of residence within district
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(a) Except as provided by chapter 25 of this title, the right of voting may only be exercised by personal attendance, and no unregistered voter shall be allowed to vote at any primary or election, except by order of the district court. All persons whose names appear on the distri…
18 V.I.C. § 582 Manner of applying to vote; identification; voters' certificates; entries; voting list
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(a) Each elector desiring to vote shall, when he enters the place where the primary or general election is being held, state his name and present the Certificate of Registration, issued him in accordance with subsection (e) of section 100 of this title, to the election officers, …
18 V.I.C. § 583 Repealed. Act May 3, 1984, No. 4934, § 12(f), Sess. L. 1984, p. 127, 128
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18 V.I.C. § 583 Statutes current through Act 9046 of the 2025 session of the 36th Legislature, including all code changes through October 25, 2025 Virgin Islands Code AnnotatedCopyright © 2026 All rights reserved.
18 V.I.C. § 584 Voting; presence of other persons prohibited; time for voting
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(a) The elector, after having been certified to vote and after having received upon his request verbal instructions as to the manner of voting from an election official, shall retire to a voting booth and vote the ballot on the electronic voting machine by depressing the button o…
18 V.I.C. § 585 Assistance in voting
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If a voter is unable by reason of physical disability or inability to read the English or Spanish language 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 or unable to read, and the j…
18 V.I.C. § 586 Challenging voters; oath
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Any voter may be challenged by any qualified elector of the district, and any watcher authorized by section 552 of this title to be present, and the election officers shall thereupon read to and afterward administer to the person challenged an oath in substance as follows:“I do s…
18 V.I.C. § 587 Duty of election officers to challenge voters
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The election officers shall challenge every person applying for a ballot when it shall be known or suspected that such person is not a qualified elector in the election district.
18 V.I.C. § 588 Issuance of ballots by election officers only; ballots not to be removed; official ballots only to be deposited and counted; exception
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Only election officers or clerks may take and give ballots to electors; and not more than one ballot shall be given to an elector desiring, and found qualified, to vote, except in the case of an unserviceable or spoiled ballot as provided in this chapter. No person other than the…
18 V.I.C. § 589 Preventing congestion at polls
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The election officers, to prevent congestion, may specify the number of voters to be allowed in the polling place at any given time, provided that no qualified elector be denied his right of voting.