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11-46-27
Section 11-46-27 Appointment, compensation, etc., of election officers. (a) The municipal governing
body or a majority of them must, not less than 15 days before the holding of any municipal
election, appoint from the qualified electors of the respective wards or voting districts
officers to hold the election as follows: Where paper ballots are used, one returning officer
for each ward and three inspectors and two clerks for each box at each voting place and, where
voting machines are used, an inspector, a chief clerk, and a first and second assistant clerk
for each voting machine; except that in the event voting centers or voting places are established,
then the requirements of Section 11-46-24 shall control the number of election officials.
In any Class 6, Class 7, or Class 8 municipality, election officials must reside within the
municipality and may serve at any polling place within the municipality. An election official
appointed to serve in a polling place other than where he or...
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17-8-10
Section 17-8-10 Returning officer. The sheriff of each county or the person discharging the
duties of such office is the returning officer for the county. The inspector for each voting
place is charged with the duty of returning the ballots and sealed election materials from
the voting place to the county returning officer. (Code 1876, §260; Code 1886, §353; Code
1896, §1589; Code 1907, §356; Code 1923, §446; Code 1940, T. 17, §129; §17-6-11; amended
and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §41.)...
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17-1-2
Section 17-1-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this title, the following terms shall have
the definitions ascribed to them: (1) APPOINTING BOARD. In all elections the appointing board
consists of the judge of probate, circuit clerk, and sheriff of the county. (2) BALLOT. The
term includes paper ballots and electronic ballots. (3) BALLOT CONFIGURATION. The particular
combination and arrangement of offices, candidates, and questions for a precinct or subdivision
thereof. (4) BEAT. Has the same meaning as precinct. (5) BOX. The voting place in a precinct
or subdivision of a precinct for voting purposes. (6) CANVASSING BOARD. In all elections except
primary elections, the canvassing board consists of the judge of probate, circuit clerk, and
sheriff of the county. In primary elections, the county executive committee of the party is
the canvassing board for the primary of the party. (7) CENSUS BUREAU. The Bureau of the Census
of the United States Department of Commerce, or any successor...
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45-29-110
Section 45-29-110 Compensation. (a) The County Commission of Fayette County shall provide such
additional amount of daily compensation as is necessary to grant each election clerk, inspector,
and returning officer of elections a total compensation of twenty-five dollars ($25), and
shall increase the mileage allowance of the returning officer to fifteen cents ($.15) a mile
in going to the courthouse and returning to the place of holding the election. Such compensation
and mileage shall be paid out of any funds in the county treasury available for such purposes.
(b)(1) In Fayette County, all inspectors, assistant inspectors, and technical assistants appointed
to conduct elections at the various polling places are hereby entitled to an additional per
diem allowance in such amount as will, together with any amount paid by the state, make a
total paid to such officials thirty-five dollars ($35) for each day they work at the polls.
Such officials, when acting as returning officers, shall...
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11-16-11
Section 11-16-11 Inspectors, clerks, and returning officers - Appointment. Between 10 and 30
days prior to the day appointed for such election the said board of commissioners shall appoint
three inspectors, two clerks, and one returning officer to hold and conduct said election
for each of the voting places in the county. One of said inspectors and one of said clerks
for each voting place shall be appointed as recommended for that purpose by qualified electors
favoring such removal and one of said inspectors and one of said clerks for each voting place
shall be appointed as recommended for that purpose by qualified electors opposing removal
and the third inspector and returning officers for each voting place shall be selected by
the board of commissioners. If there shall be a bona fide organization of electors favoring
such removal or such organization opposing such removal, one or both, the chairman or head
of such organization shall have the superior right to thus recommend persons...
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17-9-13
Section 17-9-13 Voting assistance; time allowed to finish voting. (a) Any person who wishes
assistance in voting may receive assistance from any person the voter chooses except the voter's
employer, an agent of the employer, or an officer or agent of the voter's union. The voter
is not required to state a reason for requesting assistance. To obtain assistance, the voter
must specifically request assistance by naming the person from whom assistance is sought and
by signing in the appropriate column of the voters' poll list. The person providing assistance
shall legibly sign in the adjacent column on the same line as the assisted voter's name. By
signing the poll list, the assistant shall certify that he or she is not the voter's employer,
an agent of the employer, or an officer or agent of the voter's union. If the voter is unable
to sign the poll list, the person giving assistance shall write the voter's name in the appropriate
column and then sign his or her own name in the third...
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11-16-17
Section 11-16-17 Appointment of clerks, inspectors, etc., upon failure of others to attend.
On the failure of any inspector or clerk to attend at the hour of 9:00 A.M., the inspector
or inspectors present shall complete the number by appointing a qualified elector in the place
of each inspector or clerk so absent, every such appointment to be so made that each side
shall have representation in the person of at least one inspector and one clerk, and, to that
end, the inspector or inspectors making such appointments shall observe the recommendations
of a majority of the electors present favoring the side for which such absent inspector or
clerk was appointed if they shall make such recommendation. If no inspector is present at
the hour of 9:00 A.M. as aforesaid, then a majority of the qualified electors then present
who favor removal shall select one inspector and a majority of the qualified electors then
present who oppose removal shall select one inspector, and the two inspectors thus...
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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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17-12-20
Section 17-12-20 List of registered voters open to inspection. After having ascertained the
result of an election, made declarations thereof, and made the certificates provided for in
Sections 17-12-9 and 17-12-16, the board of registrars must file the lists of the registered
voters in the office of the judge of probate, which shall be open to the inspection of any
elector of the county. (Code 1876, §293; Code 1886, §392; Code 1896, §1649; Code 1907,
§425; Code 1923, §515; Code 1940, T. 17, §204; §17-14-23; amended and renumbered by Act
2006-570, p. 1331, §56.)...
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17-12-9
Section 17-12-9 Delivery of certificates to judge of probate; forwarding to Secretary of State.
The canvassing board must, as soon as they have ascertained the result of an election, make
on forms furnished by the Secretary of State certificates stating the exact number of votes
cast in the county by voting place for each person voted for and the office for which such
person was voted for, and file the certificates with the judge of probate who must immediately
forward such certificate to the Secretary of State. (Code 1876, §292; Code 1886, §389; Code
1896, §1646; Code 1907, §435; Code 1923, §525; Code 1949, T. 17, §209; Acts 1988, 1st
Ex. Sess., No. 88-908, p. 482, §1; §17-13-7; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, §56.)...
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