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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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17-17-17
Section 17-17-17 Loitering about polling place; standing in line of voters after having voted.
Any person who loiters in, around, or about a polling place on election day for the purpose
of discouraging qualified electors from entering the voting place, or from voting, or whoever
having voted enters or stands in a line or file of voters waiting to vote, shall be guilty,
upon conviction, of a Class C misdemeanor. (Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §88.)...
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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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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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45-48-111.01
Section 45-48-111.01 Voting by electors; voting machines numbered. No elector shall vote at
any voting place other than the voting place of which he or she is a qualified elector, but
any elector whose name appears on the qualified voter's list at a voting place may vote on
any voting machine maintained at such voting place, upon presentation of the identification
card issued to him or her by an election officer serving at such voting place and upon signing
the poll list maintained at the voting machine at which he or she proposes to vote. The voting
machines at any such voting place shall be numbered consecutively beginning with number 1,
and each machine shall display a card indicating the number of that machine. The numbers on
such cards shall be clearly visible from the registration table. (Acts 1971, No. 1899, p.
3088, § 2.)...
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17-9-11
Section 17-9-11 Voter to sign name on poll list; exceptions. In every election held in this
state, the voter shall sign his or her name on one of the poll lists or lists of persons who
vote in the election, required by law to be maintained at each voting place; and no person
shall record on this list the name of any voter for him or her, except where the voter, because
of a physical disability, is unable to write his or her own name on the poll list; in which
case an election official shall write the name of such voter on the list and shall sign his
or her own name on the poll list on the same line with the name of the voter. If the voter
is unable to sign his or her name because of illiteracy, his or her name shall be written
for him or her and the voter shall make his or her mark upon the poll list, in the presence
of any of the election officials, and the election official witnessing the act shall record
his or her name, as witness, on the same line with the name of the voter. (Acts...
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11-81-84
Section 11-81-84 Conduct of election generally. The probate judge, the circuit clerk, and the
sheriff of the county in which an election is being held under this article, within 10 days
after notice in writing to them of the calling of such election, shall appoint three managers,
two clerks, and one returning officer to conduct the election in each beat or polling place
in the county, and said managers shall all reside in the beats, wards, or precincts where
they are appointed to serve and shall be qualified electors at the date of said election.
The sheriff shall notify the managers and returning officers of their appointments and shall
send out the boxes and ballots to the several beats or voting precincts in the county promptly.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §96.)...
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17-9-30
Section 17-9-30 Identification of electors; Alabama photo voter identification card. (a) Each
elector shall provide valid photo identification to an appropriate election official prior
to voting. A voter required to show valid photo identification when voting in person shall
present to the appropriate election official one of the following forms of valid photo identification:
(1) A valid Alabama driver's license or nondriver identification card which was properly issued
by the appropriate state or county department or agency. (2) A valid Alabama photo voter identification
card issued under subsection (g) or other valid identification card issued by a branch, department,
agency, or entity of the State of Alabama, any other state, or the United States authorized
by law to issue personal identification, provided that such identification card contains a
photograph of the elector. (3) A valid United States passport. (4) A valid employee identification
card containing the photograph of 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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17-6-24
Section 17-6-24 Printing and design. (a) All ballots shall be in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter and shall contain a party emblem for each political party represented on the
ticket. The arrangement of the ballot shall in general conform substantially to the plan hereinafter
given, and in all cases the party columns must be placed in alphabetical order, beginning
on the left of the ballot. The list of candidates of the several parties shall be printed
in parallel and perpendicular columns, each column to be headed by the chosen device of such
party and the party name or other designation in such order as the Secretary of State may
direct. The number of columns shall exceed by one the number of separate tickets of candidates
to be voted for at the polling place for which the ballot is provided, and in the appropriate
place the words vote for one (or two or other number, as the case may be) to indicate the
number which may be elected to each office. On the right of each...
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