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 261 states:
Except as provided in this chapter, every resident of the Virgin Islands, who is a citizen of the United States and is 18 years of age or over, has the right to franchise, and shall be entitled to vote at all elections if he or she has complied with the provisions of this title requiring and regulating the registration of its electors.
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…