11-44B-46
years. The initial term of place number 2 and place number 4 shall be for four years. Thereafter, the term of each board member shall be four years with vacancies for unexpired terms to be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term by the appointing authority. (d) Any member of the board may be removed by a resolution of the city council if five members vote in favor of the resolution when his or her service to the board, including bias, conflict of interest, excessive absenteeism, or personal conduct, is considered to be detrimental to the effectiveness or reputation of the board or the city. The mayor and city council may initiate termination action or may react in response to a written request from the majority of the board members when they deem the action is warranted. (e) The board shall meet as often as necessary or as required by the city council in city hall, or other municipal building as designated by the mayor, on a date and at an hour to be fixed by it. Three members...
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11-46-25
the ballot shall in general conform substantially to the plan given in subsection (f). (d) Ballots shall be fastened together in convenient numbers in books or blocks in such manner that each ballot may be detached and removed separately, and each ballot shall have attached to it a stub of sufficient size to enable one of the inspectors to write or stamp his or her name or initials thereon and so attached to the ballot that when the same is folded the stub can be detached therefrom without injury to the ballot or exposing the contents thereof. (e) Absentee ballots shall be in the form prescribed for absentee ballots by Title 17. (f) The ballot shall be arranged in substantially the following form: For Mayor Vote for One ( ) John Doe ( ) Richard Roe For City Council Place Number One ( ) ___ ( ) ___ For City Council Place Number Two ( )___ ( ) ___ Etc. (g) The mayor shall cause to be printed on the ballots the name...
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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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16-13-164
Section 16-13-164 Ballot and election supplies. The county commission shall provide a sufficient number of ballots for each voting precinct within said county, and at the top of each ballot shall be printed the rate of such proposed tax, the time it is to be continued and that the purpose is for the support of the public schools, and directly underneath in plain type shall be printed on different lines the words, "For proposed taxation," "Against proposed taxation," and a place must be left directly to the left of each line thereof, and the voters favoring the proposed taxation will make a cross mark directly to the left of the line, "For proposed taxation," and the voter not favoring proposed taxation will make a cross mark directly to the left of the line "Against proposed taxation." (School Code 1927, §257; Code 1940, T. 52, §250.)...
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17-17-16
Section 17-17-16 Unlawful use of poll lists. Any election officer or any other person who makes a copy of the signed voter poll list or any memoranda therefrom or list of the persons voting, or discloses the number of such voter's ballot, shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a Class C misdemeanor. (Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §88.)...
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17-11-9
Section 17-11-9 Materials furnished with ballot; delivery of ballot to absentee election manager. Each prospective absentee voter who meets the requirements of this chapter shall be furnished with the absentee ballot herein provided for, together with two envelopes for returning his or her marked ballot and instructions for completing and returning the absentee ballot as well as instructions for correcting mistakes in completing ballots or obtaining a replacement ballot. One envelope shall be a plain envelope in which the ballot shall be sealed by the voter after he or she has marked it. The second envelope shall have the voter's affidavit printed on the back and shall be large enough to seal the plain ballot envelope inside. The second envelope shall also be a return mail envelope. Such return mail envelope shall be addressed on the front to the absentee election manager and shall be endorsed on the left-hand upper corner thereof as follows: "Absent Voter's Ballot. State, County,...
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45-25A-40
Section 45-25A-40 Composition; election of members; vacancies. (a) Any law, whether special, local, or general, or municipal ordinance, to the contrary notwithstanding, the City of Fort Payne, in DeKalb County, shall not designate by place number, or by other similar method, seats for city council. (b)(1) In the election for the five members of the city council, if there are more than five candidates, then the majority of the votes cast for the office in the election shall be determined by dividing the total votes cast for all candidates for the offices by the number of positions to be filled, and then dividing that result by two. Any number of votes in excess of the number determined by the last division shall be the majority necessary for election. (2) If it appears that any candidate in the election has received a majority of the votes cast for that office, the municipal governing body shall declare that candidate elected to the office, and a certificate of election shall be given...
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17-13-9
Section 17-13-9 Duty of judge of probate to furnish and deliver election supplies. The judge of probate of each county is hereby required to furnish to the officers of the primary election a copy of the official list of voters of each voting place in the county, of the same kind and in the same manner as the judge of probate is required by law to furnish such list to the officers at any general state election. The judge of probate shall also furnish all necessary election supplies. The judge of probate shall deliver such election supplies and lists to the sheriff of the county not less than three days before the day of the election, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to deliver the same, together with ballot boxes, to the officers of the election, at the place provided by law for holding the election, and not later than one hour before the polls are scheduled to open on election day. (Acts 1975, No. 1196, p. 2349, §20; §17-16-22; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331,...
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17-6-4
Section 17-6-4 Designating and equipping voting places; county voting centers. (a) Except as may be provided further by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes, the county governing bodies shall designate the places of holding elections in the precincts established hereunder, and, whenever the county has alphabetically divided the list of registered qualified voters of a precinct into groups, it shall designate not only the voting place but also the number of electronic voting machines at each voting place in the precinct, being sure that it designates an electronic voting machine for each group of qualified voters. The county governing body is specifically authorized to provide for installing as many electronic voting machines as are needed in each precinct, and the electronic voting machines may be installed at one designated voting place or there may be more than one voting place designated and such number of electronic voting machines installed at each place...
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45-48-111
Section 45-48-111 Voting machines provided for elections. The county governing body shall provide voting machines for all elections, and shall determine the number of voting machines deemed necessary to serve adequately the voters at an election, taking into consideration the nature or character of the election; provided, however, that at each election there shall be maintained at each voting place at least one voting machine for each six hundred registered electors, or fraction thereof, residing in the territory served by the voting place designated for the voting place. Except as otherwise provided, in Section 110, Title 17, Code of Alabama 1940, as amended, paper ballots shall not be used in elections at any voting place. (Acts 1971, No. 1899, p. 3088, § 1.)...
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