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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11-46-48
Section 11-46-48 Provision of election materials and supplies; preparation of lighting facilities; posting and placement of diagrams and models. The municipal clerk shall furnish and deliver with each voting machine: Lighting facilities which shall give sufficient light to enable voters while in the voting machine booth to read the ballot labels and suitable for the use of election officers in examining the counters; a model and two diagrams or sample ballots of suitable size, representing such part of the face of such voting machine as will be in use in the election, and accompanied by directions for voting on the machine; a seal or seals for sealing the machine after the polls are closed; an envelope for the return of the keys, if the construction of the voting machine shall permit their separate return; and such other election materials and supplies as may be necessary. The lighting facilities above mentioned shall be prepared and in good order for use before the opening of the...
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45-31-110.05
Section 45-31-110.05 Inspector, chief clerk, and assistant clerks; duties. (a) For each voting center where only one voting machine is to be used, the election officials shall consist of an inspector, a chief clerk, and two assistant clerks. For each voting center where more than one voting machine is to be used there shall be appointed one chief inspector who shall supervise the conduct of the other officials and the operation of the voting center, one inspector and one chief clerk, and for each voting machine to be used at such center there shall be appointed two assistant clerks. For each voting center where more than four voting machines are to be used there may be appointed two additional assistant clerks for each group of four voting machines or fraction thereof. (b) The election officers provided for herein shall be appointed by the same officers that appoint other election officers as provided for in Section 17-13-48. They shall perform all duties imposed on election officers...
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11-46-30
Section 11-46-30 Schools for instruction of election officials in use of voting machines; qualifications and certification of election officials. (a) When voting machines are to be used in any municipal election, the municipal governing body shall provide for holding a school or schools of instruction for those who will actually conduct the election. The municipal clerk shall notify those persons who have been appointed election officials of the time and place of the holding of such school of instruction and shall also publish notice thereof at least 48 hours before the same is to be held. (b) No election official shall serve in any election district in which a voting machine is used, unless he has received such instruction, is fully qualified to perform the duties in connection with the machine and has received a certificate to that effect from the authorized instructor; provided, that this requirement shall not prevent the appointment of an uninstructed person as an election official...
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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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11-46-50
Section 11-46-50 Identification of voters where voting machines used; voting procedure; assistance of voters; provisional ballot. (a) The election officials, where voting machines are used, shall ascertain whether each applicant to vote is entitled to vote, and each applicant found to be entitled to vote shall be permitted to vote in the manner provided in this article. Each applicant to vote shall identify himself or herself to the chief clerk, who shall examine the list of qualified electors furnished by the municipal clerk and, if such voter's name appears on such list, the chief clerk shall mark the applicant's name off the list. The applicant, unless unable to write his or her own name because of physical handicap or illiteracy, shall then sign his or her name on the poll list on the line numbered to indicate the order in which the voters cast their ballots, and the clerk shall record the voter's name on a second poll list on the line numbered to indicate the order in which the...
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17-17-23
Section 17-17-23 Tampering with, injuring, etc., machines; misuse; unauthorized possession of keys. Any election officer or other person, who shall tamper with, injure, or attempt to injure any electronic voting machine to be used or being used in an election, or who shall willfully misuse any such machine, or who shall prevent or attempt to prevent the correct operation of such machine, or any unauthorized person who shall make or have in his or her possession a key to a voting machine to be used or being used in an election, shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a Class A misdemeanor. (Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §88.)...
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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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11-46-29
Section 11-46-29 Appointment of election officers upon failure of others to attend polls. On the failure of any person who has been duly appointed an election officer to attend the polls at the hour prescribed for his attendance, such of the election officers appointed for that voting box or machine as are present may appoint such election officers as are needed to complete the number of election officials for the box or machine. All persons so appointed shall be qualified electors who are entitled to vote at that polling place. Should all the appointed election officers fail to be present at a polling place by the hour prescribed on election day, then any three qualified electors who are entitled by law to vote at that polling place at the election then to be held may open the polls, act as three of the election officers for such box or machine and appoint such other officers as are required to fill the place of those absent; provided, that every person so appointed shall be a...
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17-6-3
Section 17-6-3 Voting districts; naming of precincts. (a) Except as may be provided further by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes, the counties in this state, as divided pursuant to this chapter into election precincts, and the boundaries of such precincts shall so remain until changed by order of the county governing body, but the county governing body, at its first regular meeting in March in each even-numbered year, shall subdivide any election precinct in which there are more than 2,400 qualified voters and electronic voting machines are used into voting districts or shall divide alphabetically the list of qualified voters in such precincts into groups and assign each qualified voter a designated voting place so as to provide an electronic voting machine for every person legally entitled to vote at a polling place at which not more than 2,400 votes on a single electronic voting machine will be cast. (b) Except as may be provided further by local...
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