Voting franchise; discrimination prohibited

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.

( July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 4 , 68 Stat. 498 ; Pub. L. 91–460 , Oct. 16, 1970 , 84 Stat. 978 .)