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11-42-2
Section 11-42-2 Annexation election and proceedings generally; proceedings where parties consent
to annexation. Whenever the council shall pass a resolution to the effect that the public
health or public good requires that certain territory (described in the resolution) shall
be brought within the limits of the city or town: (1) It shall be the duty of the mayor to
certify a copy of such resolution to the judge of probate of the county in which the land
proposed to be annexed is situated, and said certified resolution shall have attached thereto
a plat or map of said territory, which certified resolution and plat or map shall be filed
by the judge of probate. (2) Except as provided in subdivision (9) of this section, the judge
of probate shall, not less than 10 nor more than 15 days from the date of the filing of such
resolution, make and enter an order upon the minutes of said court, directing and ordering
an election to be held by the qualified electors residing within the territory...
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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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17-13-8.1
Section 17-13-8.1 Instant runoff primary elections in certain situations. (a) Notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 17-6-23 and Section 17-13-18, in a primary election or second primary
election, this section shall apply only to voters who are voting by absentee ballot pursuant
to the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act in any county or portion thereof
in which the nomination for a federal office other than the office of President which is contested
by three or more candidates. (b) The judge of probate shall prepare each of the following:
(1) A special federal ballot to be used in a federal instant runoff primary election. The
special federal ballot shall contain a list of all federal offices, other than the office
of President, contested by three or more candidates and the candidates qualifying for the
election for each office. (2) A special state ballot for the primary election shall contain
the office of President in presidential election years, any federal...
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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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17-8-7
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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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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17-4-33
Section 17-4-33 Computerized statewide voter registration list. (a) The State of Alabama shall
provide, through the Secretary of State, a nondiscriminatory, single, uniform, official, centralized,
interactive computerized statewide voter registration list defined, maintained, and administered
by the Secretary of State, with advice from the Voter Registration Advisory Board and the
President of the Alabama Probate Judges Association, which contains the name and registration
information of every legally registered voter in the state. The computerized list shall comply
with the following requirements: (1) It shall serve as the single system for storing and managing
the official list of registered voters throughout the state. (2) It shall contain the name,
address, and voting location, as well as other information deemed necessary by the Voter Registration
Advisory Board or the Secretary of State, of every legally registered voter in the state.
(3) A unique identifier shall be assigned to...
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11-65-4
Section 11-65-4 Elections required to approve incorporation of commission and conduct of racing
and pari-mutuel wagering thereon. (a) No commission shall be incorporated for a Class 1 municipality
and no horse racing or greyhound racing or pari-mutuel wagering thereon shall be permitted
in such municipality pursuant to this chapter unless the incorporation of such commission,
together with the conduct of horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon or greyhound racing
and pari-mutuel wagering thereon or both such activities, shall have been authorized by an
election held in the host county in which such incorporation and such racing and wagering
activities shall have been approved by both (i) a majority of the votes cast in such election
by voters who reside in the host county (including those voters who reside in the sponsoring
municipality) and (ii) a majority of the votes cast in such election by voters who reside
in the commission municipal jurisdiction. In order to authorize the...
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17-6-46
Section 17-6-46 Instructional posters. (a) The judge of probate shall cause to be printed in
large type posters of instructions for the guidance of electors in preparing their ballots.
Instructional information shall not show partiality to any political party or candidate. The
information shall include: (1) A sample version of the ballot that will be used for that election.
(2) Information regarding the date of the election and the hours during which polling places
will be open. (3) Instructions on how to vote, including how to cast a vote and how to cast
a provisional ballot. (4) Instructions for mail-in registrants and first-time voters registering
and voting for the first time after January 1, 2003. (5) General information on voting rights
under applicable federal and state laws, including information on the right of an individual
to cast a provisional ballot and instructions on how to contact the appropriate officials
if these rights are alleged to have been violated. (6) General...
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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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