VIRGIN
IsLANDS.

Form No. 16.

40 = Virgin Isicnds Constitution No.7 of 1954.
and Llections.

(8) The presiding officer shall secure the
admittance of every voter in the polling station

and shall see that they arc not impeded or
molested at or about the polling station.

(4) Every voter, upon entering the polling
station, shall declare his name, residence and
occupation. The poll clerk shall then ascertain
if the tame of the voter appears on the official
list of voters used at the polling station. When
it has been ascertained that the applicant voter
is qualified to vote at the polling station, his
name, address and occupation shall be entered
in the poll book to be kept by the poll clerk in
the form set out as Form No. 16 in the Second
Schedule; a number corresponding to the con-
secutive number allotted to the voter on the
official list of voters being prefixed to the voter’s
name in the appropriate colum of the poll book,
and the voter shall be immediately allowed to
vote, unless an election officer or any agent of
a candidate present at the polling station desires
that he be first sworn.

(5) The poll clerk shall—

(a) make such enteries in the poll book
opposite the name of each voter as the
presiding officer pursuant to the provisions
of this Ordirfance directs; and

(>) enter in the poll book opposite the
name of each voter as soon as the voter's
bailot paper has been deposited in the ballot
box, the word “ voted’; and

(c) enter in the poll book the word
“Sworn” or “ Affirmed” opposite the name
of each voter, to whom any oath or affirma-
tion has been administered indieating the
nature of the oath or affirmation; and

(d) enter in‘ the poll book the words
‘Refused io be sworn” or ‘Refuse to
affirm” or “ Refused to answer” opposite
the name of each voter who has refused to
take an oath or affirm, when he has been