Wrongful registration, entries or alterations by board official or employee, refusal to register

1. Law
2. US Virgin Islands Code
3. Elections
4. Offenses and Penalties
5. Registration Offenses
6. Wrongful registration, entries or alterations by board official or employee, refusal to register

• Whoever, being a member of a board of elections, or clerk or other board employee:

  • (1) knowingly registers, or permits to be registered, a person not entitled to be registered under this title; or

  • (2) inserts, or intentionally permits to be inserted, a name or other entries in any registration card provided for under chapter 5 of this title without a proper application in person on the part of the person registered, except as authorized in this title with respect to armed forces absentees, or without requiring the proper evidence of the right of the applicant to be registered; or

  • (3) materially alters any registration card after the entries have been made, except upon an order of the board or the district court; or

  • (4) refuses to register a person entitled to be registered under this title—

    shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

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