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2025 Virgin Islands Code
Title 18 - Elections
Chapter 13 - Qualifications of Electors
§ 263. Loss of franchise by felon; mental incompetents

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V.I. Code tit. 18, § 263 (2025)
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  • (a) 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.

  • (b) Every person who has been convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction of a felony or of a crime involving moral turpitude shall be debarred from voting while serving out his sentence, including any period of incarceration, probation, or parole.

  • (c) The right to vote is automatically restored to every person convicted of a felony upon completion of all the conditions of the person's sentence, including any period of incarceration, probation, parole, or payment of restitution.

History

—Added Feb. 20, 1963, No. 936, § 1; amended July 12, 2011, No. 7262, § 1(1)–(4), Sess. L. 2011, pp. 101, 102.

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