No. 7 0f 1954. = Virgin Islands Constitution 41
and Elections.

legally required so to do, or has refused to
answer questions which he has been legally
required to answer.

68. (1) The presiding officer shall keep
order at his polling station and shall regulate the
number of voters to be admitted at a time, and
shall exclude all other persons except the Supervi-
sor of Elections, the returning officer of the electo-
ral district, the poll clerk, the candidates, one agent
for each candidate appointed by such candidate in
uceordance with the provisions of section 60 and
_ the police officers on duty,

(2) The agents aforesaid shall be posted in
such a place that they can see each person ee
presents himself as a voter and hear his name as
given in by him, but so that they cannot see how
any voter votes. They shall not interfere in tie
proceedings save in so far they may be allowed by
this Ordinance.

(3) Tf any person persists, after being warned,
in disobeying the directions of the presiding officer
or in acting in contravention of this section, it shall
be lawful for the presiding officer to cause him to be
removed from the polling station.

69. (1) Each voter shall receive from the
presiding officer a ballot paper on which such officer
has previously put his initials so placed as indicated

in the form set out as Form No. 17 in the Second:

Schedule that when the ballot paper is folded the
said initials can be seen without opening it, and on
the counterfoil of which he has placed a number
corresponding to the consecutive number-on the
official list of voters and cntered in the poll book.

(2) The presiding officer shall instruct the
voter how to make his mark, and shall properly
fold the voter's cage paper, directing him to return
it, when marked, folded as shown, but without
inquiring or seeing for whom the voter intends to
vote, except when the voter is unable to vote in
the manner prescribed by this Ordinance on account
ef illiteracy, blindness or other physical incapacity.

VIRGIN
ISLANDS.

Who are to

be admitted
within polling
stations.

Avents how
to be placed.

Preservation
of order,

General mode
of taking
ballot.