After several contentious Board of Elections meetings recently, the Elections Systems on St. Croix conducted an orderly, short meeting to draw numbers for district senatorial candidates ballot placement in the Nov. 2 general election.
The Elections Systems conference room was standing room only as Genevieve Whitaker, deputy supervisor of Elections, started drawing numbers shortly after 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. By 6 p.m., the candidates and their supporters left with their ballot numbers in hand.
Per Whitaker’s instruction, the candidates drew their ballot numbers in the order they filed their paperwork at the Elections office. Miquel Quinones was the first to pick his number – No. 16, followed by Iqnacio Llanos III, with No. 18, and incumbent Sen. Terrence “Positive” Nelson who picked No.12. 
St. Croix Senate candidates and their ballot numbers are:
1. Dwight Nicholson – no party affiliation
2. Robert Moorhead – Republican
3. Nereida “Nellie” Rivera-O’Reilly (incumbent) – no party
4. Diane Capehart (incumbent) – Democrat
5. Kevin Romain – no party
6. Arthur Brown, Jr. – Democrat
7. Naomi Joseph – ICM
8. Kurt Vialet – Democrat
9. Arthur Joseph – ICM
10. Alicia “Chucky” Hansen (incumbent) – no party
11. Linus Lacane – no party
12. Terrence “Positive” Nelson (incumbent) ICM
13. Malcolm McGregor – Democrat
14. Kenneth Gittens (incumbent) – Democrat
15. Neville James – Democrat
16. Miquel Quinones – no party
17. Jamila Russell – no party
18. Ignatio Llanos II – ICM
19. Novelle Francis Jr. – Democrat
20. Sammuel Sanes – Democrat
Elections supervisor Carolyn Fawkes joined the meeting by phone and announced the territorial St. Thomas/St. John candidates will draw numbers on Thursday. Meetings will be held simultaneously in Elections’ offices on St. Croix and St. Thomas at 5:30 p.m. After delegate to Congress, gubernatorial and at-large senate numbers are drawn, St. Thomas senatorial candidates will draw numbers for their order on the ballot.
Fawkes said the delay in certifying the St. Thomas/St. John district primary election until Tuesday afternoon would not cause any deadline problems. Candidates will be notified the required two days in advance of casting lots, she said.
“By pulling (numbers) this week, we still could meet the deadlines. We’ll be all right,” Fawkes said.
Since there were no Elections board members present who were up for reelection, Whitaker pulled ballot numbers and they will be listed on the ballet in this order: 1. Adelbert Bryan (no party), 2. Epiphane Joseph (ICM), 3. Raymond Williams (Democrat), 4. Rupert Ross (Democrat), and 5. Barbara Jackson-McIntosh (Democrat).
I am so happy happy happy that I made sure that I built my home on St. Croix. I am so happy that I did not listen to those state-side (mostly white) liars I grew up with while attending private school. By the way, I am not a racist; my wife is white. They used to tell me, “go to the states and you will be so happy there” and “it is the best place in the world to live, so much to do” and “it’s much much better than St. Croix.” I just finished a two year contract working up in Kansas, Texas, and Louisiana. What dirt hills! Hot like hell, no beach, poisonous snakes in the parks, poisonous spiders in every house, police harassment, all processed foods, white people who do not talk to anyone of color, they look at mixed couples like they are freak shows, low class people with no love of anything but guns, UFC, KFC, trucks, and high carb diets (many of them are obese). Listen good, if any of them start their glory nonsense about the USA, please don’t believe them. It is a true hell hole, the mainland. You have been warned! That is why, whenever they have to leave the islands, you see them crying at the airports.