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11-46-49
Section 11-46-49 Election officers for voting machines; duties. (a) At all elections where
voting machines are used, there shall be the following election officers for each voting machine:
An inspector, a chief clerk, and a first and a second assistant clerk; except, in the event
voting centers are established, then the requirements of Section 11-46-24 shall control the
number of election officials. (b) The inspector shall be in general charge of the poll, shall
see that the counter compartments of the machine are never unlocked or opened so that the
counters are exposed during voting, shall see that the other election officers perform the
duties imposed on them by this section, shall keep a record of all voters at such machine
who received assistance pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 11-46-51, and all other records
required by this article, and immediately after the polls have closed and the statement of
the returns has been made, shall deliver such statement and the key or keys...
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11-46-67
Section 11-46-67 Offenses of electors. (a) Any elector who takes or removes or attempts to
take or remove any ballot from the polling place at a municipal election before the close
of the polls or who remains longer than the time allowed by law in the booth or compartment
after being notified his or her time has expired must, on conviction, be fined not less than
ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). (b) Any person who willfully makes
to the inspectors of a municipal election a false declaration asserting an inability to prepare
his or her ballot without assistance must, on conviction, be fined not less than fifty dollars
($50) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500). (c) Any qualified elector at any municipal
election who takes or receives any money or other valuable thing upon the condition that the
same shall be paid at any future time in exchange for the vote of such elector for any particular
candidate or the promise to vote for any particular candidate...
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11-46-68
Section 11-46-68 Miscellaneous offenses. (a) Any person who shall willfully fail or refuse
to perform or discharge any duty relating to absent voters required of him by this article
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not more than $100.00.
(b) Any person found drunk or intoxicated at or about any polling place during any municipal
election day is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than
$500.00 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county
for not more than six months. (c) Any person who, at a municipal election, interferes with
any elector when inside the polling place or when marking the ballot, or unduly influences
or attempts to unduly influence any elector in the preparation of his ballot must, on conviction,
be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00. (d) Any person who, during or before
a municipal election, willfully removes, tears down, destroys, or defaces any...
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17-12-13
Section 17-12-13 Procedure; improperly marked ballots. Except where precinct ballot counters
are used in counting the ballots, the inspector must take the ballots, one by one, from the
box in which they have been deposited, at the same time reading aloud the names of the persons
voted for and the office for which such persons are voted for; the inspector must separately
keep a calculation of the number of votes each person receives and for what office he or she
receives them; if the elector has marked more names than there are persons to be elected to
an office, or if for any reason it is impossible to determine the elector's choice for any
office to be filled, the ballot shall not be counted for such office, but this shall not vitiate
the ballot so far as properly marked, nor shall any ballot be rejected for any technical error
which does not make it impossible to determine the elector's choice, and nothing in the election
law shall be construed so as to prevent any elector from...
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11-16-9
Section 11-16-9 Order establishing date for election - Form. The order may be substantially
as follows: Order for county seat election. The State of Alabama, _____ County. A majority
of the qualified electors of this county having petitioned the Governor praying that an election
be held in this county on the question of removing the county seat from _____ to _____, in
this county; and the Governor having appointed the undersigned as the board of commissioners
of county seat election, as provided by law: It is hereby ordered that an election be held
at the usual voting places in this county, by the qualified electors thereof, on Tuesday,
the _____ day of _____, 2__, between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M., on the question
of such removal, at which election the elector who desires that the county site shall remain
at _____ shall have written or printed on his ballot the words: "Against removal";
and the elector who desires that the county seat shall be removed to _____ shall have...
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11-42-207
Section 11-42-207 Question submitted; conduct of election generally; form, marking, etc., of
ballots; appointment, etc., of clerks, inspectors, and returning officer; ascertainment, etc.,
of election results; entry of order as to adoption of proposed corporate limits, etc. (a)
The election shall be to determine whether or not the proposed corporate limits shall be established,
and such election must be conducted in all respects as provided by the general election laws
and under the same sanctions and penalties, except as changed by the provisions of this article
and except that no official ballot need be provided. (b) Each voter may furnish his own ballot
with the following words written or printed thereon: "For adoption of the proposed corporate
limits," if he desires to vote in favor of proposed corporate limits or "Against
the adoption of proposed corporate limits," if he desires to vote against the adoption
of proposed corporate limits. It shall not be necessary for the ballot to...
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17-11-7
Section 17-11-7 Form of affidavit to be printed on envelope - General, special, or municipal
elections. (a) Each absentee ballot shall be accompanied by an envelope upon which shall be
printed an affidavit. (b) With respect to an absentee ballot cast pursuant to Section 17-11-3,
the affidavit shall read as follows: "State of Alabama County of ___ I, the undersigned,
do swear (or affirm) that: My place of residence in Alabama is: ___ (street) ___, Alabama
___ (city or town) (zip code) My date of birth is: ___ month day year I am entitled to vote
an absentee ballot because: Check at least one: ___ I expect to be out of the county or the
state on election day. ___ I am physically incapacitated and will not be able to vote in person
on election day. ___ I expect to work a required workplace shift which has at least 10 hours
which coincide with the polling hours at my regular polling place. ___ I am a student at an
educational institution...
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11-46-51
Section 11-46-51 Instruction of voters in use of machines; oath, etc., of disabled voters;
assistance of voters. (a) The election officers shall, with the aid of the diagrams authorized
by this article and the mechanically operated model, instruct each voter before he enters
the voting machine booth regarding the operation of the machine and shall give the voter opportunity
personally to operate the model. No voter shall be permitted to receive any assistance in
voting at any election, unless he shall first state in writing upon printed forms supplied
for that purpose and under oath or affirmation, which shall be administered to him by the
inspector, that he is blind or that he cannot read the names on the voting machines or that,
by reason of physical disability, he is unable to see the machine or prepare it for voting
or to enter the voting machine booth without assistance. The voter shall state the specific
physical disability which requires him to receive assistance. Thereupon the...
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45-10-20.02
Section 45-10-20.02 Municipal option election. (a) Upon petition of 25 percent of the number
of voters voting in the last general election of the municipality having a population of not
less than 1,300 inhabitants nor more than 1,500 inhabitants being filed with the city or town
clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing body shall call a municipal option
election for the municipality to determine the sentiment of the people as to whether alcoholic
beverages may be legally sold or distributed in the municipality. The petition for the municipal
option election shall contain the following: "It is petitioned that a municipal option
election be held to determine whether the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages
shall be permitted within this municipality," on the ballot to be used for the municipal
option election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do you favor the legal
sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages within this municipality? Yes...
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45-37A-52-51
Section 45-37A-52-51 Statement of candidacy. Any person desiring to become a candidate in any
election for the office of council member may become such candidate by filing in the office
of the judge of probate of the county in which such city is situated, a statement in writing
of such candidacy and an affidavit taken and certified by such judge of probate or by a notary
public that such person is duly qualified to hold the office for which he or she desires to
be a candidate. Such statement shall be filed at least 45 days before the day set for such
election and shall be substantially the following form: State of Alabama, ______ County. I,
the undersigned, being first duly sworn, depose and say that I am a citizen of the City of
______ in the state and county, and reside at ______ in the City of ______, that I desire
to become a candidate for office as a member of the city council, district number ______,
in the City at the election for that office to be held on the ______ day of...
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