Virain
Isnanns.

Questions
which may be
put toa voter.

42. Virgin Islands Constitution No.7 of 1954.

and Elections.

(3) The voter on receiving the ballot paper
shall forthwith enter one of the polling compart-
ments in the polling station and there mark his
ballot paper by marking with a black lead pencil
and not otherwise a cross within the space aaionils
the name of the candidate for whom he intends to
vote, and he shall then fold the ballot paper as
directed so that the initials and the numbers on the
counterfoil can be seen without opening it, and hand
the paper to the presiding officer who shall, without
unfolding it, ascertain by examination of the initials
aud numbers appearing thereon that it is the same
paper as that delivered to the voter and, if the same,
he shall in full view of the voter and of all others
present remove the counterfoil and deposit the ballot
in the ballot box.

(4) A voter who has inadvertently so dealt
with the ballot paper delivered to him that it cannot
conveniently be used shall restore it to the presiding
officer who shall cancel it by writing the word
“Spoiled” across the face of the same. The pre-
siding officer shall then deliver another ballot paper
to the voter.

(5) Every voter shall vote without undue
delay and shall leave the polling station as soon as
his ballot paper has been put into the ballot box.

(6) If at the closing of the poll there are any -
voters inside the polling station who are qualified to
vote and have not been able to do so since their
arrival at the polling station, the poll shall be kept
open a sufficient time to enable them to vote, but
no one not actually present within the polling
station at the hour of closing shall be allowed to
vote.

70. (1) The presiding officer may, and shall
if requested by a candidate or his agent, put to the
voter the following questions-~-

(a) Are you the same person vhoxe
name appears as “A.B.” on the official list of
voters now in force for this polling division ?

(b) Have you already voted at this elec-
tion either here or elsewhere?