VIRGIN
ISLANDS.

Form No. 20,

Form No. 21.

Who may
vote.

44. Virgin Islands Constitution No. 7 of 1954.
and Elections.

such voter by marking his ballot paper in the man-
ner directed by such voter in the presence of the
poll clerk and of the sworn agents of the candidates
and of no other person, and shall place such ballot
in the ballot box. .

(4) The presiding ofticer shall either deal with
a blind voter and a voter who is unable to mark his
ballot paper by reason off illiteracy in the same
manner as with an otherwise incapacitated voter, or
at the request of any blind voter or a voter who 18
unable to mark his ballot paper by reason of illit-
eracy and who has taken the oath in the form set
out as Form No. 20 in the Second Schedule, and is
accompanied by a friend who is a voter in the elec-
toral district, shall permit such friend to accompany
the blind or illiterate voter, as the case may be, into
the voting compartment and mark the voter’s ballot
oe for him. No person shall at any election
be allowed to act ag such friend to more than one
voter.

(5) Any fed who in accordance with the
provisions of subseetion (-£) of this section is per-
mitted to mark the ballot paper of a blind voter
ora voter who is unnble to mark his ballot paper
py reason of illiteracy shall first be required to take
an oath in the form set out as Form No, 21 in the
second Schedule that he will keep secret the name

-of the candidate for whom the ballot of such voter

is marked by him, and that he has riot already acted
as the friend of any other voter for the purpose of
marking his ballot paper at the pending election.

(6) Whenever any voter has had his ballot
paper marked as provided in subsection (3) or sub-
section (4) of this section, the poll clerk shall enter

~ an the poll book opposite the voter’s name in addi-

tion to any other requisite entry, the reason why
such ballot paper was so marked,

72. (1) Where there is contained in the
official list of voters a name, addvess and occupation

“which correspond so closely with the name, address

and cecupation of a person by whom a ballot paper
is demanded aa to suggest that the entry in such list
of voters was indended to refer to him, such person