11-16-40
Section 11-16-40 Penalties for failure to perform duties required by chapter, etc. Any officer or person who shall willfully or corruptly fail to perform any duty required of him under any of the provisions of this chapter; or shall fraudulently alter or change the ballot of any elector after it has been cast; or shall make any false or fraudulent count of votes; or shall place in the receptacle for ballots any ballot not actually cast by an elector; or shall take therefrom any ballot cast by an elector, with the intention of unlawfully changing or affecting the result of the election; or shall make any false poll list or any false count of the ballots or any false certificate to a poll list or to the result of the count of the ballots; or shall wrongfully open the returns from any precinct or ward; or shall change, secrete, destroy, or mutilate the returns from any precinct or ward or attempt to do so; or shall prevent or attempt to prevent any such return from being made as required...
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11-43A-114
Section 11-43A-114 Referendum ballots. At such referendum, the proposition to be submitted shall be printed in plain prominent type on ballots separate and distinct from ballots used for any other office or question and shall read as follows: "Check one of the following: (1) The City of ___ shall adopt and operate under the council-manager form of government pursuant to the 'Council-Manager Act of 1991.' Yes ( ). or (2) The City of ___ shall adopt and operate under the mayor-council form of government pursuant to Section 11-43-1 et seq. Yes ( )." The voter shall mark his ballot with a cross mark (X) after the proposition which expresses his choice. If voting machines are used at any voting place in such election, the above propositions may, at the discretion of the election commission or other body or official having charge of the conduct of municipal elections, be submitted as separate propositions on voting machines so used. (Acts 1991, No. 91-545, p. 973, §45.)...
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11-44F-21
Section 11-44F-21 Procedures for referendum. At the referendum, the proposition to be submitted shall be printed in plain prominent type on ballots separate and distinct from ballots used for any other office or question and shall read substantially as follows: Check one of the following: Do you favor the Office of Mayor of the City (Town) of ___ being a full-time position with the City (Town) of ___ for the person elected at the 1996 municipal election and thereafter? Yes ___ No ___. The voter shall mark the ballot with a cross mark (x) after the proposition which expresses his or her choice. If voting machines are used at any voting place in the referendum, the proposition may, at the discretion of the election commission or other body or official having charge of the conduct of municipal elections, be submitted as separate propositions on the voting machines. (Acts 1995, No. 95-367, p. 739, §2.)...
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11-46-3
Section 11-46-3 Primary elections by political parties and partisan elections abolished in municipalities having 300,000 inhabitants or less. Primary elections of political parties are hereby abolished in cities and towns of this state which have a population of 300,000 inhabitants or less, according to the latest federal decennial census, and election of the members of the municipal governing body of said cities and towns shall be by and on a nonpartisan ballot in all elections held for the purpose of electing members of the governing body. (Acts 1971, No. 2234, p. 3592.)...
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11-46-38
Section 11-46-38 Electors to vote in wards or precincts of residence, etc.; qualifications for voting. (a) At all municipal elections, a qualified elector may vote only in the ward or precinct of his or her residence where he or she is registered to vote. (b) An individual may not vote at any municipal election unless he or she is a qualified elector of the State of Alabama, has resided in the county 30 days and in the ward 30 days prior to the election, and has registered to vote in conformance with the time frame set forth in Section 17-3-50; provided, however, if a qualified elector relocates his or her residence from one ward to another ward in the same city or town within the 30-day period prior to the election, the elector shall have the right to vote in the ward where the elector had previously resided if he or she would have been entitled to vote in that ward but for relocating to the new ward. If any elector attempts to vote in any ward other than that of his or her residence,...
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17-11-41
Section 17-11-41 Alabama Electronic Overseas Voting Advisory Committee. (a) The Alabama Electronic Overseas Voting Advisory Committee is created to determine whether secure electronic means may be established for conducting absentee voting for overseas voters and to advise and assist the office of the Secretary of State in the establishment, testing, and implementation of absentee overseas balloting by secure electronic means. (b) The membership of the committee shall include all of the following: (1) The Secretary of State as chair. (2) A representative of the Alabama Sheriff's Association appointed by that association. (3) A representative of the Alabama Probate Judge's Association appointed by that association. (4) A representative of the Alabama Circuit Clerks Association appointed by that association. (5) A representative of the Alabama National Guard appointed by the Adjutant General. (6) The Chair of the Senate Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections Committee. (7)...
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17-12-2
Section 17-12-2 Statements of results. The authority charged with the holding of an election or primary election shall cause to be prepared a statement of results on a form to be designated by the Secretary of State. The statement of results shall conform with the type of electronic voting machine to be used, and the designating number and letter, if the construction of the electronic voting machine is such as to require a designating number and letter, of each candidate (or proposition) shall be printed next to the candidate's name on the statement of results. The statements of results shall be preserved by the judge of probate for use in the event of contests. (Acts 1939, No. 292, p. 443; Code 1940, T. 17, §113; §17-9-34; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §54.)...
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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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11-46-34
Section 11-46-34 Voting booths. For all elections at which paper ballots will be used, the chief executive officer of the municipality at the expense of the municipality shall provide at each polling place in all municipalities having a population of over 3,000 inhabitants a room or covered enclosure and in such room or covered enclosure shall provide booths or compartments, one booth or compartment for each 100 or fraction thereof over 50 electors registered in the ward or wards in such municipality for that election, and shall furnish each booth or compartment with a shelf or table for the convenience of the electors in the preparation of their ballots. Each booth or compartment shall be so arranged that it will be impossible for one elector at a shelf or table in one compartment to see an elector at a shelf or table in another compartment in the act of marking his ballot. Each voting shelf or table shall be kept supplied with conveniences for marking the ballots. In voting places in...
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17-7-25
Section 17-7-25 Implementation of article. (a) It shall be the duty of the committee to recommend procedures to be implemented by the Secretary of State under the Administrative Procedure Act where appropriate to achieve and maintain the maximum degree of correctness and impartiality of voting, counting, tabulating, and recording votes, by electronic vote counting systems provided by this article. (b) To the extent practicable, statutes and procedures implemented by the Secretary of State pursuant to this chapter shall apply in all municipal elections that are conducted using automatic tabulating equipment or an electronic official vote counting system. The duties assigned in the rules and statutes to a state or county election official shall be performed by the corresponding municipal official. Where there is no corresponding municipal official, the duties shall be performed by the municipal clerk or other election official appointed by the municipal governing body where the clerk is...
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