(a) Every person who possesses all the qualifications of an elector as provided in this title and the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954, or any other law hereafter applicable to the Virgin Islands, or who, by continued residence in this district, will have obtained such qualifications before the next ensuing election, shall be entitled to register as herein provided. No person shall be permitted to vote at any election or primary held in any election district unless he shall have been so registered, except by order of the district court as hereinafter provided; and no elector so registered shall be required to register again for any election or primary while he continues to reside at the same address, unless his registration is cancelled by reason of his failure to vote at two consecutive general elections as provided in section 116 of this title.
(b) The provisions and requirements for registration as set forth in this title shall not apply to persons otherwise entitled to vote, who are, at the time of the election, or at any time within 60 days prior to an election have been, engaged in the military service of the United States, and who appear personally at the polling place on election day and produce to the registrar or any authorized inspector of registration, satisfactory evidence thereof. Such persons, if otherwise qualified to vote, shall be permitted to vote at such election without previous registration.