VI Update · Digital Investigations St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Goat Foot Woman received three votes.

Every name Virgin Islanders wrote on a ballot when nobody printed on it would do. The awards, the field guide, the mysteries — and the complete record, 2016–2024.

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Why any of this exists in writing

Every USVI ballot carries blank lines. You may write in anyone. After the count, the Elections System publishes a Write-In Appendix A for each district. Under 18 V.I.C. § 625, officers must record those names “exactly as they were written or pasted to the ballot.” No cleanup. No spellcheck. No editorial discretion — which is why all of it is now, permanently, a public record.

What’s in here

• One
  Nineteen awards

  Goat Foot Woman, a cat with seven seats, and the Trinity.
• Two
  A bestiary of the blank line

  Eight species. Learn to identify them at range.
• Three
  Three genuine mysteries

  Who is EEL? And who were the other 121?
• Four
  The part that isn’t funny

  Written in first, elected later — and the votes nobody counts.
• Five
  Twelve you’ll swear we invented

  A game. You will lose it.
• A
  The hundred heaviest

  Ranked by total votes, 2016–2024.
• B
  The complete record

  All 2,928, A to Z. Look for your own name.