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11-46-35
Section 11-46-35 Watchers. (a) Each candidate may name a watcher for every polling place.
As used in this subsection, a polling place shall mean a location for ballot boxes or voting
machines, regardless of the number thereof. (b) The watcher, upon presentation of his or her
appointment in writing and being sworn faithfully to observe the rule of law prescribed for
the conduct of elections, shall be permitted to be present at the place where ballots are
cast from the time the polls are opened until the ballots are counted and certificates of
the result of the election are duly signed by the proper election officers. The function of
the watcher is to observe activities at the polling place. The watcher may not disturb voters,
attempt to influence voters, campaign, or display or wear any campaign material or buttons
while inside any polling place. (c) When paper ballots are used at the election, the watcher
shall be permitted to see the ballots as they are called during the count. (d)...
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11-46-32
Section 11-46-32 Election supplies. (a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of
the municipality shall at the expense of the municipality procure and superintend and insure
the delivery to the election officers at each polling place within the corporate limits of
the municipality of the necessary election supplies and shall also procure and deliver or
cause to be delivered to the municipal clerk a sufficient number of the absentee ballots and
the envelopes therefor prescribed by general laws and other supplies needed for the handling
of absentee ballots in such election in the manner prescribed by general law. In the event
the municipal clerk is a candidate in the election, he or she shall immediately upon receipt
of the absentee ballots and other supplies deliver the same to the person appointed pursuant
to Section 11-46-55 to act in his or her stead. (b) When paper ballots are used, such
supplies shall consist of: At least 100 ballots for each 50 registered electors at each...
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11-46-47
Section 11-46-47 Delivery, examination, and identification of keys to voting machines;
examination of counters, ballots, etc.; certification as to keys, counters, and ballots; opening
of machines and polls. (a) Whenever voting machines are used for municipal elections, the
key or keys to the voting machine or machines, still in the envelopes in which they were placed
when the machines were sealed for this election pursuant to subsection (b) of Section
11-46-33 and with the seals thereof unbroken and all other necessary election supplies shall
be delivered to the inspector of each poll at least 30 minutes before the time for opening
the polls. The inspector shall compare the number appearing on the envelope containing the
key or keys with the number shown in the protective counter, and, if these numbers are not
identical, he shall not break the seal on the envelope containing the keys, and he shall immediately
so notify the municipal clerk or his representative, who shall immediately...
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45-48-111.04
Section 45-48-111.04 Representative of candidate authorized to observe conduct of election.
Any candidate in an election shall have the right to designate one representative to be present
at each polling place, and such representative shall have the right to observe the conduct
of the election as a watcher at such polling place as provided by law, but shall also have
the right to observe and be present at the opening of each voting machine when the totals
of such machines are tabulated by the election officials. Such representative shall be appointed
as provided by law. (Acts 1971, No. 1899, p. 3088, ยง 5.)...
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17-2-4
Section 17-2-4 Voting system requirements; vote standards; uniform polling system; purchase
of equipment. (a) On or before January 1, 2005, each voting system used in an election shall
meet the following requirements: (1) The voting system shall: a. Permit the voter to verify,
in a private and independent manner, the votes selected by the voter on the ballot before
the ballot is cast and counted. b. Provide the voter with the opportunity, in a private and
independent manner, to change the ballot or correct any error before the ballot is cast and
counted, including the opportunity to correct the error through the issuance of a replacement
ballot if the voter was otherwise unable to change the ballot or correct any error. c. If
the voter selects votes for more than one candidate for a single office: 1. Notify the voter
that the voter has selected more than one candidate for a single office on the ballot. 2.
Notify the voter before the ballot is cast and counted of the effect of casting...
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11-46-28
Section 11-46-28 Polling place hours; duties of election officers; challenger; deletion
of absentee voter applicants from voter list; preservation of order. (a) Every polling place
shall open for voting at 7:00 A.M. and shall close at 7:00 P.M. and shall remain open for
voting for not less than 12 consecutive hours. All polling places in areas operating on eastern
time may open and close under this section pursuant to eastern time. The election officers
at voting places shall meet at the respective places of holding elections for which they have
been appointed 30 minutes before the hour established by the municipal governing body to open
the polls and shall at the designated hour open the several polling places as designated and
keep them open without adjournment or recess until the hour established by the municipal governing
body to close the polls and no longer. (b) Any qualified elector entitled to vote at a polling
place who has identified himself or herself with the election...
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11-46-33
Section 11-46-33 Duties of clerk as to voting machines. (a) Whenever voting machines
are to be used in any municipal election the municipal clerk shall: (1) Cause the proper ballot
labels to be placed on the voting machines; (2) Cause the machines to be placed in proper
working order for voting; (3) Examine all voting machines in the presence of authorized watchers
for any interested persons before they are sent out to the polling places; (4) See that all
the registering counters are set at zero; (5) Lock, in the presence of authorized watchers,
all voting machines so that the counting machinery cannot be operated; and (6) Seal each one
with a numbered seal, a list of which numbered seals and the number on the protective counters,
together with the number of the voting place to which it was sent shall be kept as a permanent
record in such clerk's office, open to any citizen. (b) The inspection and sealing of voting
machines shall begin not later than 9:00 A.M., of the Monday before any...
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11-46-24
Section 11-46-24 Designating and equipping voting places; election officials; canvass
returns. (a) The municipal governing body may, when it orders an election, designate at least
one place of voting in each ward and if the ward has been divided into voting districts then
at least one place of voting in each district or the municipal governing body may establish
and designate one central place (location) within the municipality as the place of voting
for all wards. The number of voting boxes or voting machines as prescribed, shall be placed
in a central place of voting for use by the electors. The municipal governing body shall provide
at least one machine or at least one box for the voters of each ward, provided that this requirement
shall not apply to any municipality which uses electronic vote counters or tabulators or other
devices that are regulated by the Alabama Electronic Voting Committee established in Chapter
24 of Title 17 that are capable of counting the ballots from all...
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11-46-31
Section 11-46-31 Exhibition of voting machines for voter instruction and information;
diagrams furnished with voting machines. During the 30 days next preceding an election at
which voting machines will be used, the municipal governing body shall place on public exhibition
in public places and at times as it may deem most suitable for the information and instruction
of the voters one or more voting machines, containing the ballot labels and showing the offices
and questions to be voted upon and, so far as practicable, the names and arrangements of the
candidates for office. The machines will be under the charge and care of a person competent
as custodian and instructor. No voting machine which is to be assigned for use in an election
shall be used for public exhibition and instruction after having been prepared and sealed
for the election. This requirement shall not apply in any municipality which will use a vote
tabulator that requires voters to fill out a card or paper ballot that...
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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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