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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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11-46-45
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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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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11-46-39
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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17-8-1
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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17-10-2
Section 17-10-2 Provisional ballots; certification; tabulation; identification of ballots.
(a) A voter shall be required to cast a provisional ballot when: (1) The name of the individual
does not appear on the official list of eligible voters for the precinct or polling place
in which the individual seeks to vote, and the individual's registration cannot be verified
while at the polling place by the registrar or the judge of probate. (2) An inspector has
knowledge that the individual is not entitled to vote at that precinct and challenges the
individual. (3) The individual is required to comply with the voter identification provisions
of Section 17-10-1 but is unable to do so. If the voter's ballot becomes a provisional ballot
due to lack of identification, the identification, including the address and telephone number
of the voter, must be provided to the board of registrars no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Friday
following the election. If the voter fails to provide identification to...
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17-11-5
Section 17-11-5 Delivery of absentee ballots; maintenance of voter lists. (a) Upon receipt
of an application for an absentee ballot as provided in Section 17-11-3, if the applicant's
name appears on the list of qualified voters produced from the state voter registration list
in the election to be held, or if the applicant qualifies for a provisional absentee ballot,
the absentee election manager shall furnish the absentee ballot to the applicant by: (1) Forwarding
it by United States mail to the applicant's or voter's residence address or, upon written
request of the voter, to the address where the voter regularly receives mail; or (2) by handing
the absentee ballot to the applicant in person or, in the case of emergency voting when the
applicant requires medical treatment, his or her designee in person. If the absentee election
manager has reasonable cause to believe that the applicant has given a fraudulent address
on the application for the absentee ballot, the absentee election...
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16-13-184
Section 16-13-184 Election officers; conduct of election. (a) The inspectors and officers of
the special county election shall be appointed and said election shall be held and the results
of such election shall be declared in the same manner and by the same officers as the results
of the regular election for county officers, under the general election laws of the state;
provided, that the election may be held at the time for holding any regular election in the
county; and, if held at such time, the inspectors and officers of the general election shall
conduct at the same time the election herein provided for and for such services they shall
receive no compensation other than that allowed them for the holding of the general election.
If the election is held at some other time than that of holding the regular election in the
county, then the election officers shall receive the same pay as that for holding the general
election. (b) The managers and returning officers, provided for above,...
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11-50B-8
Section 11-50B-8 Meetings, hearings, etc., open to public; notice; petition; election; procedure.
(a) Actions of the governing body of a public provider relating to the provision of cable
service or telecommunications service by the public provider, shall be taken in meetings open
to the public consistent with any one or more of Sections 11-43-49, 11-43A-21, 11-44C-25,
and 13A-14-2, as amended, respectively, or other similar statutory provisions, as shall otherwise
govern meetings of the governing body of the affected public provider. (b) Prior to the determination
of the governing body of a public provider of cable service to commence furnishing cable service
to subscribers in the exercise of authority granted under this chapter, the governing body
of the public provider shall conduct a public hearing. Actual notice of the date, time, and
place of the public hearing shall be given not less than 30 days prior thereto, to each private
provider furnishing cable service in the...
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17-12-4
Section 17-12-4 Procedures upon malfunction of equipment. If a precinct ballot counter malfunctions,
the polls shall remain open and voters shall deposit their ballots in a ballot box or other
suitable container. The inspector shall notify the custodian, who shall maintain a public
list of all voting places in which equipment failure has occurred. After the polls close,
the ballot box shall be opened and the ballots counted either by hand, as described in Sections
17-12-2 and 17-12-6, or by feeding the ballots into an operable hand precinct ballot counter.
Poll watchers of opposing interests and members of the media, if any are present, shall be
permitted to witness this process. Where precinct counting equipment is programmed to return
ballots containing over-votes, any such ballot returned during a post-election count must
be counted by hand following the rules for ballots. The results of this hand count shall be
added to the certificate of results, and the ballots shall be bound...
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