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17-6-22
Section 17-6-22 Political parties not included on ballot unless requirements met. (a) No political
party, except those qualified as a political party under Chapter 13, shall be included on
any general election ballot unless: (1) The party shall have filed with the Secretary of State
or other appropriate official on the date of the first primary election a list of the signatures
of at least three percent of the qualified electors who cast ballots for the office of Governor
in the last general election for the state, county, city, district, or other political subdivision
in which the political party seeks to qualify candidates for office; and unless (2) The party
shall have fulfilled all other applicable requirements of federal, state, or local laws. (b)
The provisions of this section are supplemental to the provisions of Chapter 13, and other
laws regarding the conduct of elections in Alabama, and shall repeal only those laws or parts
of laws in direct conflict herewith. (Acts 1982, No....
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21-4-23
Section 21-4-23 Registration and voting aids. (a) The appropriate election officials in the
several counties of this state shall make available registration and voting aids for handicapped
and elderly individuals in state elections. These aids shall include, but are not limited
to: (1) Instructions, printed in large type, conspicuously displayed at each voter registration
site and polling place, sufficient to provide hearing impaired and seriously visually impaired
individuals with adequate information as to how and where they may register and vote. (2)
Paper ballots, available at each polling place, for the use of voters who would otherwise
be prevented from voting because of their inability to operate a voting machine. (3) Absentee
ballots, available to any handicapped or elderly individual who, because of handicap or age,
is unable to go to the polling facility in a state election. The deadlines for requesting
and submitting an absentee ballot under this subsection shall not be...
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11-46-34
Section 11-46-34 Voting booths. For all elections at which paper ballots will be used, the
chief executive officer of the municipality at the expense of the municipality shall provide
at each polling place in all municipalities having a population of over 3,000 inhabitants
a room or covered enclosure and in such room or covered enclosure shall provide booths or
compartments, one booth or compartment for each 100 or fraction thereof over 50 electors registered
in the ward or wards in such municipality for that election, and shall furnish each booth
or compartment with a shelf or table for the convenience of the electors in the preparation
of their ballots. Each booth or compartment shall be so arranged that it will be impossible
for one elector at a shelf or table in one compartment to see an elector at a shelf or table
in another compartment in the act of marking his ballot. Each voting shelf or table shall
be kept supplied with conveniences for marking the ballots. In voting places in...
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17-11-4
Section 17-11-4 Form and contents of application; signature of applicant; filing of application.
The application required in Section 17-11-3 shall be filed with the person designated to serve
as the absentee election manager. The application shall be in a form prescribed and designed
by the Secretary of State and shall be used throughout the state. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
handwritten applications can also be accepted at any time prior to the five-day deadline to
receive absentee ballot applications as provided in Section 17-11-3. The application shall
contain sufficient information to identify the applicant and shall include the applicant's
name, residence address, or such other information necessary to verify that the applicant
is a registered voter. The application shall also list all felonies of moral turpitude, as
provided in Section 17-3-30.1. Any applicant may receive assistance in filling out the application
as he or she desires, but each application shall be manually...
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28-2A-1
Section 28-2A-1 Procedure for wet or dry classification option elections. (a) Any municipality
having a population of 1,000 or more, may change its classification from dry to wet or wet
to dry by a municipal option election, in the following manner. (b) Upon petition of 30 percent
of the number of voters voting in the last preceding general election of the municipality
being filed with the city or town clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing
body must call a municipal option election for the municipality to determine the sentiment
of the people as to whether or not alcoholic beverages can be legally sold or distributed
in the municipality. The petition for municipal option election shall contain the following:
"It is petitioned that a municipal option election be held to permit the legal sale and
distribution of alcoholic beverages within this municipality." On the ballot to be used
for such municipal option election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do...
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45-28A-41.20
Section 45-28A-41.20 THIS SECTION WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CODE COMMISSIONER IN THE 2019 REGULAR
SESSION, EFFECTIVE APRIL 6, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) Pursuant
to Amendment 659 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 104.01 of
the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, the Gadsden
City Council shall call an authorizing referendum election regarding changing the Gadsden
City Board of Education to an elected city board of education. (b) If a majority of the qualified
electors of the municipality voting in the authorizing referendum election vote in favor of
an elected city board of education, the board shall be established as provided in this subpart
and the Legislature, as provided in Amendment 659, from time to time, by local law may provide
further for the election and operation of the Gadsden City Board of Education. The local laws
may provide for the termination of the terms of office of members of...
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45-8A-23.006
Section 45-8A-23.006 Election of first council; term of office. Within five days of the date
of his or her receipt of the certificate of adoption the judge of probate with whom the certificate
was filed shall call an election to be held on the first Tuesday in September, 1954. The expenses
of this election shall be paid by the city. Before calling such election the judge of probate
shall cause the city to be divided into five wards containing as nearly equal number of people
as possible. Candidates shall qualify in the manner prescribed in Section 45-8A-23.051 and
shall have the qualifications and eligibility set forth in Sections 45-8A-23.052 and 45-8A-23.053.
Each candidate shall announce the ward from which he or she desires to become a candidate.
Each voter in the election may cast one vote for a candidate from each of the wards. Any candidate
receiving a majority of the total votes cast for the candidates from the ward from which he
or she is a candidate shall be elected as the...
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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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11-46-45
Section 11-46-45 Preparation of statements of vote; certification, sealing, and delivery of
statements and poll lists; packaging of ballots; sealing and delivery of ballot boxes. (a)
At elections where paper ballots are used, as soon as the ballots are all counted, the inspectors
must ascertain the number of votes received for each person and for what office and must make
a statement of same in writing. Each of the inspectors must sign this statement and must also
certify in writing on the sealed envelope containing the poll list signed by the electors
that such poll list is the poll list of the election in the ward or voting place at which
they were inspectors, the day and year on which such election was held and for what offices.
The statement of the vote and the poll list thus certified, together with a list of the registered
electors qualified to vote at such voting place at such election on such day, must be sealed
up in an envelope furnished along with the other election supplies...
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16-13-37
Section 16-13-37 Use of county sales and use tax funds for general educational purposes. (a)
When approved at a referendum election held for such purposes in the manner hereinafter prescribed,
any local board of education may divert any earmarked revenue derived by it from county sales
and use taxes heretofore levied and imposed by local laws enacted by the Legislature of Alabama
which exclusively earmarked such county sales and use taxes for capital outlay, construction
and maintenance of public schools and use or spend the same for general educational purposes,
including payment of teachers' salaries, other current school expenses, and costs of school
transportation, the provisions of any general, special or local law to the contrary notwithstanding.
(b) Upon the written request of the local board of education to the county commission, the
referendum elections referred to in subsection (a) of this section may be called, held and
conducted as nearly as may be in accordance with state...
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