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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the names of all candidates who have properly qualified and have not withdrawn, as provided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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17-8-1
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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17-1-2
Section 17-1-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this title, the following terms shall
have the definitions ascribed to them: (1) APPOINTING BOARD. In all elections the appointing
board consists of the judge of probate, circuit clerk, and sheriff of the county. (2) BALLOT.
The term includes paper ballots and electronic ballots. (3) BALLOT CONFIGURATION. The particular
combination and arrangement of offices, candidates, and questions for a precinct or subdivision
thereof. (4) BEAT. Has the same meaning as precinct. (5) BOX. The voting place in a precinct
or subdivision of a precinct for voting purposes. (6) CANVASSING BOARD. In all elections except
primary elections, the canvassing board consists of the judge of probate, circuit clerk, and
sheriff of the county. In primary elections, the county executive committee of the party is
the canvassing board for the primary of the party. (7) CENSUS BUREAU. The Bureau of the Census
of the United States Department of Commerce, or any successor...
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11-46-36
Section 11-46-36 Preparation, certification, filing, and publication of lists of qualified
regular voters. (a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of the city or town shall cause
to be made a list of the qualified voters who reside within the corporate limits of such city
or town and who are registered to vote regular ballots, dividing the same into separate alphabetical
lists of the qualified voters of each ward where such city or town has been divided into wards
and all qualified voters thereof vote at one box or voting machine, or dividing such list
into separate alphabetical lists of voters authorized to vote at each respective box or voting
machine if the list of qualified voters has been divided alphabetically and each alphabetical
group assigned a box or machine at which to vote. He or she shall have such lists compared
with the official list of electors qualified to vote during the current year on file in the
probate office of the county in which the municipality is...
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17-6-28
Section 17-6-28 Requirements for write-in votes. (a) Write-in votes shall be permitted
only in non-municipal general elections and shall be counted as provided in this section
based on one of the following: (1) Upon a determination that the number of write-in votes
for a specific office is greater than or equal to the difference in votes between the two
candidates receiving the greatest number of votes for the specific office. (2) Upon a written
request satisfying the requirements in subsection (i). (b) The ballot for a non-municipal
general election must be constructed so that the voter can mark a write-in vote for each office
in the same manner that votes are registered for regular candidates. In order to cast a valid
write-in vote, the voter must (1) write the name on the ballot and (2) register the vote by
a mark in the space designated for that office. A write-in vote that is not registered as
provided above shall not be considered a valid write-in vote and shall not be included...
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17-9-13
Section 17-9-13 Voting assistance; time allowed to finish voting. (a) Any person who
wishes assistance in voting may receive assistance from any person the voter chooses except
the voter's employer, an agent of the employer, or an officer or agent of the voter's union.
The voter is not required to state a reason for requesting assistance. To obtain assistance,
the voter must specifically request assistance by naming the person from whom assistance is
sought and by signing in the appropriate column of the voters' poll list. The person providing
assistance shall legibly sign in the adjacent column on the same line as the assisted voter's
name. By signing the poll list, the assistant shall certify that he or she is not the voter's
employer, an agent of the employer, or an officer or agent of the voter's union. If the voter
is unable to sign the poll list, the person giving assistance shall write the voter's name
in the appropriate column and then sign his or her own name in the third...
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15-8-150
Section 15-8-150 Contents; sufficiency; use of analogous forms. The forms of indictment
set forth in this section in all cases in which they are applicable, are sufficient,
and analogous forms may be used in other cases. (1) CAPTION, COMMENCEMENT AND CONCLUSION GENERALLY.
The State of Alabama,) Circuit court, ___ session, ___) 20___ The grand jury of said county
charge that, before the finding of this indictment, etc. (describing the offense as in the
following forms), against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. E.F.J.,District Attorney
of the ______ circuit. (2) ADVERTISING, ETC., UNREGISTERED SECURITIES. A. B. did, contrary
to law, and subsequent to the ____ day of ____, 20__, advertise (or otherwise describing the
unlawful act) in this state for the purpose of inducing or securing subscriptions to or sales
of the capital stock of the X. Y. company (or otherwise describing the security so advertised),
which said stock (or other security) had not then...
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11-46-39
Section 11-46-39 Oath and identification of voters challenged; voting procedure where
paper ballots used. (a) Where paper ballots are used, the inspector, upon the elector's entering
the polling place, shall examine the list of qualified electors furnished by the clerk pursuant
to subsection (a) of Section 11-46-36, and, if it appears from this examination that
the person is a qualified elector of the state authorized to vote at that box, the inspector
shall then give the person one ballot on the stub of which the inspector shall write or shall
have already written his or her name or initials. If the person's name does not appear on
the list of qualified voters for that ward or box, the person may not vote except by provisional
ballot. (b) In cities of more than 3,000 inhabitants, each elector on receiving a ballot shall
forthwith and without leaving the polling place retire alone to one of the booths or compartments
provided for that purpose and there prepare the ballot in the manner...
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17-8-7
Section 17-8-7 Poll watchers. (a) Except in the case of municipal elections, each political
party or organization having candidates nominated, by a writing submitted to the inspector
by the chair of the county executive committee or nominees for office or beat committeeman,
may appoint a watcher for each voting place. In the event of an election in which there are
no candidates, each political party, through a writing submitted to the inspector by the chair
of the county executive committee, may appoint a watcher for each voting place. (b) Watchers
shall have the right to: (1) Observe the conduct of the election. (2) Monitor the preliminaries
of opening the polls. (3) Remain at the polling place throughout the election until the results
of the election have been posted and the voting machines sealed, as provided by law. (4) Observe
the ballots as they are counted. (5) Observe absentee ballots and affidavits when they are
called during the count. (6) See all oaths administered and...
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45-31-110.05
Section 45-31-110.05 Inspector, chief clerk, and assistant clerks; duties. (a) For each
voting center where only one voting machine is to be used, the election officials shall consist
of an inspector, a chief clerk, and two assistant clerks. For each voting center where more
than one voting machine is to be used there shall be appointed one chief inspector who shall
supervise the conduct of the other officials and the operation of the voting center, one inspector
and one chief clerk, and for each voting machine to be used at such center there shall be
appointed two assistant clerks. For each voting center where more than four voting machines
are to be used there may be appointed two additional assistant clerks for each group of four
voting machines or fraction thereof. (b) The election officers provided for herein shall be
appointed by the same officers that appoint other election officers as provided for in Section
17-13-48. They shall perform all duties imposed on election officers...
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