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Virgin Islands:Election 2010 officially begins as candidates start collecting signatures, Virgin Islands Daily News (2010)
Filing documents have been available since the end of June, but today candidates can begin collecting signatures. Filing packets can still be picked up until the filing date on August 10.
Virgin Islands, U.S.:Elections Expo draws hundreds, Virgin Islands Daily News (2010)
This article reports on the Elections Expo in the Virgin Islands. This event attracted a large number of people, who will be able to register to vote an access election-related services. Elections staff will also help voters sign up to be election workers and fill out absentee ballot applications. Candidates will also be in the Expo presenting their programmes.
US Virgin Islands:Elections Board creates new committees, VI Daily News (2011)
The VI Joint Board of Elections has created two new committees - an Interviewing Selection Committee and a Rules and Regulations Committee - to deal with major issues, including legislative changes and the applications for supervisor and deputy supervisor of elections.
U.S. Virgin Islands:Elections Officials Plan Voter Outreach, St. Croix Source (2011)
In a bid to increase voter registration, election officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands will be hosting of community outreach events throughout St. Croix in the coming months, to get as many residents as possible registered to vote.
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US Virgin Islands: Right-to-vote lawsuit advancing in local court system, Virgin Islands Daily News (2012)
A case introduced in local and federal Virgin Islands courts in both districts suing several agencies for territorial citizens' right to vote and run for federal office advanced in the V.I. Superior Court's St. Thomas-St. John District. The case, which attorney Russell Pate filed last year, argues that federal voting rights have been denied since the United States bought the territories in the early 1900s - when segregation and Jim Crow laws prevailed amid fears of the new U.S. Virgin Islands' black majority.
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