VIRGIN 76 Virgin Islands Constitution. No. 7 of 1954.
IsLANDs. and /vlections.

2. The voters will go into one of the compartments and, with
the pencil provided in the compartment, place a cross on,the right
hand side, opposite the name of the candidate for whom he votes,
thus X. ,

For example: Supposing JOHN JONES and GEORGE SMITH
are the candidates for election and the voter wishes to
vote for JONES, he must piace a cross opposite JONES’
name as follows:—

 

Jones, John
Shopkeeper, x

Tortola.

 

 

Smith, George
Carpenter,
Virgin Gorda.

ST eC LTRNeRRe

 

In the Second Electoral District the voter will place a cross
opposite the name of each of the two candidates for whom he votes.

3. The voter shall then fold his ballot paper so that the initials of
the presiding officer and the numbers on the counterfoil can be geen
and the counterfoil detached without opening the ballot paper; he
shall then return the ballot paper so folded to the presiding officer
who shall in full view of those present including the voter remove
the counterfoil and place the ballot paper in the ballot box. The
voter shall then forthwith quit the polling station.

4, Ifthe voter inadvertently spoils a ballot paper, he can return
it to the presiding officer who will, if satisfied of such inadvertence,
give him another paper.

5. Ifthe voter places any mark on the paper by which he may
afterwards be identified or if—

(i) ata general election in the Second Electoral District he
votes for more than two candidates; or

(ii) in any other electoral district he votes for more than
one candidate: or

(iii) at a by-election he votes for more than the number of
candidates to be elected.

then his ballot paper will be void and will not be counted.

6. Ifthe voter takes a ballot paper out of the polling station
or deposits in the ballot box any other paper than the one given him
by the presiding officer, he shall be liable on summary conviction to
imprisonment for three months or to a fine of two hundred and
forty dollars. ?