Title 48, chapter 12, section 1542 states:
(a) The franchise shall be vested in residents of the Virgin Islands who are citizens of the United States, twenty-one years of age or over. Additional qualifications may be prescribed by the legislature: Provided, however, that no property, language, or income qualification shall ever be imposed upon or required of any voter, nor shall any discrimination in qualification be made or based upon difference in race, color, sex, or religious belief.
(b) The legislature shall have authority to enact legislation establishing the voting age for residents of the Virgin Islands at an age not lower than eighteen years of age, if a majority of the qualified voters in the Virgin Islands approve in a referendum election held for that purpose.
Title 48, chapter 12, section 1571 states:
The apportionment of the legislature shall be as provided by the laws of the Virgin Islands: Provided, that such apportionment shall not deny to any person in the Virgin Islands the equal protection of the law: And provided further, that every voter in any district election or at large election shall be permitted to vote for the whole number of persons to elected in that district election or at large election as the case may be…
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…