Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateU.S. Virgin Islands has not yet signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Section 100, subsection (d) states:
If the applicant for registration shall allege inability to sign his name, then he shall be required to present affidavits, subscribed in person before a member of the board or the clerk, of two electors who are personally acquainted with the applicant and who know his qualifications as an elector. Each of said two electors shall state in his affidavit the applicant's residence, his own residence, his knowledge of the statement made by the applicant under oath or affirmation in applying for registration, and his belief that they are true. Upon the filing of such affidavits, the applicant shall be permitted to subscribe to his oath or affirmation by making his mark, except that if the applicant's inability to sign his name is not due to some apparent physical infirmity, he shall first also be required to make and file with a member of the board or the clerk, an affidavit of his inability to sign his name. Every affidavit required because of an applicant's inability to sign his name shall be filed with the registration card of the person whose registration it affects.
Section 151, subsection (c) states:
If, at any time prior to the day of any primary or election, a vacancy occurs by reason of the disqualification, removal, resignation or death of an election officer, clerk or voting machine monitor, or from any other cause, the board shall fill the vacancy by appointment of another person who has the qualifications prescribed in this chapter and who is a member of the same political party as that of the appointee whose place he is filling. The chairman of such party in the legislative district shall have the right, prior to such appointment, to submit to the board his nomination therefor. If, on or before the day of any primary or general election, a temporary vacancy occurs by reason of absence, temporary illness or other cause, the board may, in order to discharge any of the functions involved, make a temporary appointment as acting election officer, clerk or voting machine monitor, appointing another person with the prescribed qualifications.
Section 263, subsection (a) states:
No inmate of a public or private institution for the insane and no person under the care of a guardian by reason of any mental incapacity shall be entitled to vote.
Section 559 states:
…(b) The judge of election may assign any inspector or clerk of election to assist another election officer in the performance of his duties, or to perform them during his absence or disability.
Section 585 states:
If a voter is unable by reason of physical disability or inability to read the English or Spanish language to mark his ballot or to mark same in an informed manner he may, if he declares to the judge of the election, under oath, that he is so disabled or unable to read, and the judge of the election is satisfied, from the contents of the voter's registration card or other convincing proof, as to the truth of such declaration, have the assistance of a person of his own selection to mark his ballot or to read the ballot for him Such person so selected shall be sworn, may accompany the voter into the voting booth, and shall either mark the ballot as directed by the voter in the case of physical disability or read the ballot to the voter in the case of inability of the voter to read, and shall thereafter give no information regarding the same. Such person so selected may assist only one voter in any primary or general election.
Title 48, chapter 12, section 1572 states:
(b) No person shall be eligible to be a member of the legislature who is not a citizen of the United States…or who has been convicted of a felony or of a crime involving moral turpitude and has not received a pardon restoring his civil rights…