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17-16-58
Section 17-16-58 Ballots may be examined. In all contests of elections before the judge of
probate or the circuit court, the judge presiding is authorized to make an examination of
the ballots given or rejected in the election so far as the judge may deem it necessary to
arrive at a correct judgment, and may make and enforce by attachment all necessary orders
to obtain possession of the same, and must make all proper orders necessary for the return
of the ballots to the proper custody after same have been examined by him or her. (Code 1896,
§1699; Code 1907, §473; Code 1923, §563; Code 1940, T. 17, §249; §17-15-31; amended and
renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §83.)...
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17-6-21
Section 17-6-21 Contents; amendments; withdrawal of name. (a) The official ballots shall contain
the names of all candidates nominated by caucus, convention, mass meeting, primary election,
or other assembly of any political party or faction, or by petition of electors and certified
as provided in Section 17-9-3, but no person's name shall be printed upon the ballots who,
within the time period set forth in subsection (c), notifies the judge of probate in writing,
acknowledged before an officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments, that he or she will
not accept the nomination specified in the certificate of nomination or petition of electors.
The name of each candidate shall appear but one time on the ballot and under only one emblem.
(b) A nomination for a candidate in a primary or general election shall be finalized by the
respective state executive committees not later than 76 days before the primary or general
election. Any amendment to a certification of a candidate by a...
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11-46-9
Section 11-46-9 Election commission in Class 1 municipality. In any Class 1 municipality, the
mayor, the city attorney, and the president of the city council shall constitute an election
commission for the city. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if either the mayor or the president
of the council is a candidate for office, the mayor shall appoint a member of the city council
who is not a candidate for office to serve on the election commission for the election in
which the mayor or the president is a candidate. In the event that both the mayor and the
president of the council are candidates for office at the same election, the mayor shall appoint
two members of the council who are not candidates for office to serve on the election commission
in place of the mayor and the president. If the mayor and all members of the council are candidates
for office at the same election, the mayor shall designate a senior member of his or her staff
and the council president shall designate a senior...
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11-46-28
Section 11-46-28 Polling place hours; duties of election officers; challenger; deletion of
absentee voter applicants from voter list; preservation of order. (a) Every polling place
shall open for voting at 7:00 A.M. and shall close at 7:00 P.M. and shall remain open for
voting for not less than 12 consecutive hours. All polling places in areas operating on eastern
time may open and close under this section pursuant to eastern time. The election officers
at voting places shall meet at the respective places of holding elections for which they have
been appointed 30 minutes before the hour established by the municipal governing body to open
the polls and shall at the designated hour open the several polling places as designated and
keep them open without adjournment or recess until the hour established by the municipal governing
body to close the polls and no longer. (b) Any qualified elector entitled to vote at a polling
place who has identified himself or herself with the election...
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17-12-1
Section 17-12-1 Conclusion of voting; locking of equipment; certificates of result. When the
time arrives for closing the polls, all qualified voters, who are then waiting within the
voting room to vote, shall be permitted by the election officers to do so. After closing the
polls and sealing the required records, the precinct election officials shall follow the manufacturer's
instructions to lock the equipment against further voting and to obtain a printout of the
votes on each office and question. The first printout shall be torn from the equipment so
that all printing during the day, from the initial test before the polls opened through the
first printout of results, shall be on one continuous sheet or roll of paper. Then, four other
printouts of the results shall be produced and torn out. To each certificate shall be added,
if it is not automatically printed, the following information: (1) The name of the voting
place. (2) The date. (3) The identifying number (serial number) of the...
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17-13-7
Section 17-13-7 Persons entitled to vote; voter to certify political party preference by signing
poll list. (a) All persons who are qualified electors under the general laws of the State
of Alabama and who are also members of a political party and entitled to participate in such
primary election under the rules of the party shall be entitled to vote therein and shall
receive the official primary ballot of that political party, and no other; but every governing
body of a party shall have the right, power, and authority to fix and prescribe the political
or other qualifications of its own members and shall, in its own way, declare and determine
who shall be entitled and qualified to vote in such primary election or to be candidates therein
or to otherwise participate in such political parties and primaries. The qualifications of
electors entitled to vote in such primary election shall not necessarily be the same as the
qualifications for electors entitled to become candidates therein....
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17-16-2
Section 17-16-2 Reimbursing counties for election expenses - "Expenses" defined.
As used in this chapter, the term "expenses" shall include the following items and
any other items approved as reimbursable expenses by the Election Expense Reimbursement Committee
pursuant to Section 17-16-2.1: (1) The compensation and mileage provided by law for election
officials. (2) The compensation provided by law for the clerk or other official acting as
absentee election manager. (3) The costs of ballots, supplies, and other materials or equipment
necessary for election officials to conduct elections as required by law and as certified
by the judge of probate as chief election official of the county. (4) The costs of absentee
ballots, supplies, postage, and other materials required by law to be furnished to the absentee
election manager. (5) The cost of preparing and furnishing the lists of qualified electors
to the election officials as required by law. (6) The cost of publishing any notice or...
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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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17-11-14
Section 17-11-14 Compensation of absentee election manager. The county commission shall determine
the amount of compensation to be paid to the absentee election manager or other absentee election
manager for the performance of his or her duties with respect to absentee ballots for which
his or her services are required during the 55-day period prior to the election, the day of
the election, and the seven-day period following the election during which ballots under the
Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act may be returned, but such compensation
shall be at least fifty dollars ($50) per day or the same pay as an inspector as authorized
under Section 17-8-12, and the total number of days worked may not exceed 46 days. In all
counties in which the compensation of absentee election managers is prescribed by local law
or general law of local application at an amount in excess of the amount prescribed, the compensation
of the absentee election manager shall not be increased or...
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17-12-7
Section 17-12-7 Preservation of ballots by sheriff. When no federal elections are on the ballot,
the sheriff shall keep the ballots six months in the voted ballot box, without opening or
unsealing the voted ballot box, and thereafter destroy the ballots unless within six months
the sheriff having them in custody is notified that the election of some officer for which
the election was held will be contested, in which case the sheriff must preserve the box containing
the ballots cast for such contestant until such contest is finally determined or until such
box is demanded by some legally constituted custodian during such contest. (Code 1907, §417;
Code 1923, §507; Code 1940, T. 17, §196; §17-13-5; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570,
p. 1331, §56.)...
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