VIRGIN
IsLanps.

Procedings
after poll,

Form No, 25,

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

74. (1) Forthwith upon the close of the
poll the presiding officer shall in’ the following
order—

(a) seal the ballot boxes;

(6) count the number of voters whose
names appear in the poll book as having voted
and make an entry thereof on the line im-
mediately below the name of the voter, who
voted last, thus “ The number of voters who
voted this election in this polling station is

_” (stating the number), and sign his
name thereto;

(c) count the spoiled ballot papers, if any,
place them in the special envelope supplied for
that purpose and indicate thereon the number
of such spoiled ballot papers and seal it up;

(d) count the unused ballot papers, place
them with all the stubs of all used ballot pa-
pers in the special envelope supplied for that

_ purpose and indicate thereon the number of
such unused ballot papers; and

(e) check the number of ballot papers
supplied by the returning officer against the
number of spoiled ballot papers, if any, the
number of unused ballot papers and the num-
ber of voters whose names appear in the poll
book as having voted, in order to ascertain that
all ballot papers are accounted for.

(2) The ballot boxes, poll book, envelopes con-
taining the spoiled and unused ballot papers, official
list of voters and other documents used at the poll
shall be transmitted to the place notified for the
counting of the votes or delivered to the returning
officer. The returning officer may specially appoint
one or more persons for the purpose of collecting
the ballot boxes and papers aforesaid from a given
number of polling stations, and such person or per-
sons shall, on delivering the ballot boxes and papers
to the returning officer, take the oath in the form
set out as Form No, 25 in the Second Schedule,

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