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11-46-43
Section 11-46-43 Right of secret ballot; write-in voting prohibited. (a) Every voter in a municipal
election shall have the right to vote a secret ballot which shall be kept secret and inviolate.
(b) Electors shall not be entitled to vote for any person whose name does not appear on the
ballot, and no elector shall write in the name of any person on the ballot. (Acts 1961, No.
663, p. 827, §23; Acts 1976, No. 358, p. 403, §13.)...
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45-4-111
Section 45-4-111 Electronic voting system authorized; requirements for use. (a) As used in
this section: (1) "Automatic tabulating equipment" shall mean apparatus which automatically
examines and counts votes recorded on paper ballots or ballot cards and tabulates the results.
(2) "Paper ballot" shall mean a printed paper ballot which conforms in layout and
format to the electronic voting system in use. (3) "Ballot card" shall mean a tabulating
card on which votes may be recorded. (4) "Ballot label" shall mean the cards, papers,
booklet, pages, or other material which contain the names of offices and candidates and statements
of measures to be voted on and which are used in conjunction with ballot cards. (5) "Ballot"
shall mean ballot cards or paper ballots. (6) "Counting center" shall mean one or
more locations selected and designated by the county commission or the municipal governing
body, as the case may be, for the automatic counting of ballots in the election. (7) "Electronic...

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17-6-27
Section 17-6-27 Write-in votes; listing of independent candidates; form of ballots. The elector
may write in the column under the title of the office the name of any person whose name is
not printed upon the ballot for whom the elector may desire to vote. In case of nomination
by independent bodies, the ballot shall be so arranged that at the right of the last column
for party nomination the several tickets of the names of the independent candidates shall
be printed in one or more columns according to the space required, having above each of the
tickets the political or other names selected to designate such independent nominations. The
ballot form shall be designated by rule promulgated by the Secretary of State under the Administrative
Procedure Act. (Code 1907, §380; Code 1923, §470; Code 1940, T. 17, §155; §17-8-5; amended
and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §31.)...
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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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11-46-68
Section 11-46-68 Miscellaneous offenses. (a) Any person who shall willfully fail or refuse
to perform or discharge any duty relating to absent voters required of him by this article
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not more than $100.00.
(b) Any person found drunk or intoxicated at or about any polling place during any municipal
election day is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than
$500.00 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county
for not more than six months. (c) Any person who, at a municipal election, interferes with
any elector when inside the polling place or when marking the ballot, or unduly influences
or attempts to unduly influence any elector in the preparation of his ballot must, on conviction,
be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00. (d) Any person who, during or before
a municipal election, willfully removes, tears down, destroys, or defaces any...
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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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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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11-46-62
Section 11-46-62 Offenses of inspectors. (a) Any inspector of an election who shall, without
challenging him, permit any person to vote in a municipal election knowing that he is not
a qualified elector shall be fined not less than $100.00. (b) Any inspector of an election
who shall willfully exclude any vote duly tendered and unchallenged in a municipal election,
knowing that the person offering the same is lawfully entitled to vote at such election, or
who shall willfully receive a vote from any person who has been duly challenged in relation
to his right to vote at such election, without exacting from such person such oath or other
proof of qualification as is required by law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction,
shall be fined not less than $100.00 and may also be sentenced to hard labor for the county
for not more than six months. (c) Any inspector of a municipal election who willfully fails
or refuses to advise any elector entitled thereto that he is entitled to...
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17-11-3
Section 17-11-3 Absentee balloting generally. (a) Any qualified elector of this state may apply
for and vote an absentee ballot by mail, by hand delivery, or by commercial carrier, as determined
by rule by the Secretary of State, as provided in Sections 17-11-5 and 17-11-9, in any primary,
general, special, or municipal election, if he or she makes application in writing therefor
not less than five days prior to the election in which he or she desires to vote and meets
one or more of the following requirements: (1) The person expects to be out of the county
or the state, or the municipality for municipal elections, on election day. (2) The person
has any physical illness or infirmity which prevents his or her attendance at the polls, whether
he or she is within or without the county on the day of the election. (3) The person expects
to work a shift which has at least 10 hours which coincide with the hours the polls are open
at his or her regular polling place. (4) The person is...
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