11-46-27
Section 11-46-27 Appointment, compensation, etc., of election officers. (a) The municipal governing
body or a majority of them must, not less than 15 days before the holding of any municipal
election, appoint from the qualified electors of the respective wards or voting districts
officers to hold the election as follows: Where paper ballots are used, one returning officer
for each ward and three inspectors and two clerks for each box at each voting place and, where
voting machines are used, an inspector, a chief clerk, and a first and second assistant clerk
for each voting machine; except that in the event voting centers or voting places are established,
then the requirements of Section 11-46-24 shall control the number of election officials.
In any Class 6, Class 7, or Class 8 municipality, election officials must reside within the
municipality and may serve at any polling place within the municipality. An election official
appointed to serve in a polling place other than where he or...
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17-9-7
Section 17-9-7 When election officials to meet, open polling place, etc. The precinct election
officials appointed shall meet at the place of holding elections in the several voting places
for which they have been appointed not later than 30 minutes before the scheduled opening
of the polls and shall open the several polling places at the time designated. (Code 1907,
§358; Code 1923, §448; Code 1940, T. 17, §131; Acts 1979, No. 79-616, p. 1086, §2; §17-7-6;
amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §44.)...
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17-12-1
Section 17-12-1 Conclusion of voting; locking of equipment; certificates of result. When the
time arrives for closing the polls, all qualified voters, who are then waiting within the
voting room to vote, shall be permitted by the election officers to do so. After closing the
polls and sealing the required records, the precinct election officials shall follow the manufacturer's
instructions to lock the equipment against further voting and to obtain a printout of the
votes on each office and question. The first printout shall be torn from the equipment so
that all printing during the day, from the initial test before the polls opened through the
first printout of results, shall be on one continuous sheet or roll of paper. Then, four other
printouts of the results shall be produced and torn out. To each certificate shall be added,
if it is not automatically printed, the following information: (1) The name of the voting
place. (2) The date. (3) The identifying number (serial number) of the...
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17-12-8
Section 17-12-8 Count of votes to be sealed, certified, and delivered to sheriff; public inspection
of results. As soon as the ballots are counted, the inspectors shall ascertain the number
of votes received for each person and for what office and shall make a statement of the same
in writing, which statement shall be signed by them. They shall also certify in writing on
both the clerk's poll list and the voters' poll list, that the poll list is the poll list
of the voting places at which they were inspectors, the day and year on which the election
was held, and for what offices, which certificates shall be signed by them. The clerk's poll
list, as sealed and certified, shall be placed in the records of election containers to be
furnished for each voting place. The record of election containers shall be securely sealed
and delivered by the precinct returning officer to the sheriff as county returning officer.
No later than two hours after the polls are closed, the voting place election...
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11-42-73
Section 11-42-73 Creation, etc., of wards; election of aldermen or representatives. (a) The
council or governing body of the city shall create new wards (as many as may be deemed to
be necessary) regardless of any limitation in the charter of the city on the number of wards,
or may enlarge the wards so as to embrace all territory brought within the corporate limits
of the city and so as to afford opportunity to all persons entitled to vote at elections in
the city to vote thereat. (b) Each ward in the city shall have the same number of aldermen
or representatives in the council or governing body of the city, and as new wards are created
the council or governing body of the city shall elect aldermen or representatives to represent
such wards in the council or governing body of the city, as in the case of a vacancy, the
aldermen or representatives so elected to hold office until the next regular election in the
city; provided, however, that no person residing on territory which is exempt...
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11-46-22
Section 11-46-22 Notice of elections. (a) It shall be the duty of the mayor to give notice
of all municipal elections by publishing notice thereof in a newspaper published in the city
or town, and, if no newspaper is published in the city or town, then by posting notices thereof
in three public places in the city or town. When the notice is of a regular election, the
notice shall be published on the first Tuesday in July preceding the election or the first
business day thereafter. When the notice is of a special election to be held on the second
Tuesday in a month, the notice shall be published on or before the second Tuesday of the second
month preceding the month in which the election will be held, except where otherwise provided
by law. When the notice is of a special election to be held on the fourth Tuesday of a month,
the notice shall be published on or before the fourth Tuesday of the second month preceding
the month in which the election will be held, except where otherwise...
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16-13-181
Section 16-13-181 Request by board of education for election. Upon the written request of the
county board of education or of the board of education of any city having a city board of
education for a special election in any school tax district under the control of the respective
board, the county commission shall call an election at the time and for the rural or city
school tax districts as requested by the respective board of education and shall appoint three
managers and one returning officer for each voting place in the school tax district or at
such special voting places as may be designated for the special election by the judge of probate
of the county who shall locate such voting places, upon the recommendation of the county board
of education, and such special voting places shall be set out in the notices of the special
election. (School Code 1927, §265; Code 1940, T. 52, §258.)...
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17-8-1
Section 17-8-1 Appointment of election officials; duties. (a) The appointing board, or a majority
of them acting as an appointing board, not more than 20 nor less than 15 days before the holding
of any election in their county, shall appoint from the qualified electors of the respective
precinct, necessary precinct election officials, which shall include at least one inspector,
to act at each voting place in each precinct. The appointing board may appoint the number
of precinct election officials necessary for each precinct, provided that, absent consent
of the county commission, the total number of precinct election officials appointed in a county
shall not exceed the total number of precinct election officials who were paid by the county
for the general election held November 2004. In the event that the number of precincts or
voting places utilized in an election within a county is increased or decreased, the total
number of officials who may be appointed without consent of the...
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11-46-25
Section 11-46-25 Ballots; statements of candidacy; withdrawal of candidacy. (a) In all municipal
elections on any subject which may be submitted by law to a vote of the people of the municipality
and for any municipal officers, if paper ballots are used, the voting shall be by official
ballot printed and distributed as provided in subsections (c) and (d), and no ballot shall
be received or counted in any election unless it is provided as prescribed by law. (b) There
shall be but one form of ballot for all the candidates for municipal office and every ballot
provided for use at any polling place in a municipal election shall contain the names of all
candidates who have properly qualified and have not withdrawn, as provided in subsection (g),
together with the title of the office for which they are candidates. (c) All ballots shall
be printed in black ink on clear book paper. At the bottom of each ballot and at a point an
equal distance from the sides thereof there shall be printed a...
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17-11-7
Section 17-11-7 Form of affidavit to be printed on envelope - General, special, or municipal
elections. (a) Each absentee ballot shall be accompanied by an envelope upon which shall be
printed an affidavit. (b) With respect to an absentee ballot cast pursuant to Section 17-11-3,
the affidavit shall read as follows: "State of Alabama County of ___ I, the undersigned,
do swear (or affirm) that: My place of residence in Alabama is: ___ (street) ___, Alabama
___ (city or town) (zip code) My date of birth is: ___ month day year I am entitled to vote
an absentee ballot because: Check at least one: ___ I expect to be out of the county or the
state on election day. ___ I am physically incapacitated and will not be able to vote in person
on election day. ___ I expect to work a required workplace shift which has at least 10 hours
which coincide with the polling hours at my regular polling place. ___ I am a student at an
educational institution...
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