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17-17-49
Section 17-17-49 Failure of returning office to return ballots and election supplies. Any precinct
returning officer failing to perform the duties of returning ballots and election supplies
to the returning officer of the county shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a Class C misdemeanor.
(Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §88.)...
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45-4-111
Section 45-4-111 Electronic voting system authorized; requirements for use. (a) As used in
this section: (1) "Automatic tabulating equipment" shall mean apparatus which automatically
examines and counts votes recorded on paper ballots or ballot cards and tabulates the results.
(2) "Paper ballot" shall mean a printed paper ballot which conforms in layout and
format to the electronic voting system in use. (3) "Ballot card" shall mean a tabulating
card on which votes may be recorded. (4) "Ballot label" shall mean the cards, papers,
booklet, pages, or other material which contain the names of offices and candidates and statements
of measures to be voted on and which are used in conjunction with ballot cards. (5) "Ballot"
shall mean ballot cards or paper ballots. (6) "Counting center" shall mean one or
more locations selected and designated by the county commission or the municipal governing
body, as the case may be, for the automatic counting of ballots in the election. (7) "Electronic...
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17-11-10
Section 17-11-10 Procedure upon receipt of ballot by absentee election manager; counting of
ballots. (a) Upon receipt of the absentee ballot, the absentee election manager shall record
its receipt thereof on the absentee list as provided in Section 17-11-5 and shall safely keep
the ballot without breaking the seal of the affidavit envelope. (b) For absentee ballots received
by noon on the day of the election, the absentee election manager shall, beginning at noon,
deliver the sealed affidavit envelopes containing absentee ballots to the election officials
provided for in Section 17-11-11. The election officials shall then call the name of each
voter casting an absentee ballot with poll watchers present as may be provided under the laws
of Alabama and shall examine each affidavit envelope to determine if the signature of the
voter has been appropriately witnessed. If the witnessing of the signature and the information
in the affidavit establish that the voter is entitled to vote by...
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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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17-13-18
Section 17-13-18 Candidate with majority of votes declared nominee of party; second primary
election; certification of results. (a) At the respective meetings of the respective executive
committees, the county executive committee, as to candidates in the primary election for office,
except candidates for county office, shall publicly ascertain, determine, and declare whether
any candidate for office in the primary election has received a majority of the votes cast
for the office, and, if so, declare the candidate the nominee of the party for the office
for which he or she was a candidate and for which he or she received a majority of the votes
cast for that office in the primary election. (b) If no candidate receives a majority of all
of the votes cast in such primary election for any one office or offices for the nomination
to which there were more than two candidates, then there shall be held a second primary election
on the fourth Tuesday following the primary election, and the...
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17-13-8
Section 17-13-8 Ballots, stationery, and supplies; pledge printed on ballot; spoiling of ballot.
Separate official ballots and other election stationery and supplies for each political party
shall be printed and furnished for use at each election district or precinct and shall be
of a different color for each of the political parties participating in such primary election.
All ballots for the same political party shall be alike, except as herein otherwise provided,
printed in plain type and upon paper so thick that the printing cannot be distinguished from
the back. Across the top of the ballot shall be printed the party's emblem, if any, and the
words, "Official Primary Election Ballot." Beneath this heading shall be printed
the year in which the election is held and the words "Democratic Party" or "Republican
Party" or other proper party designation. Each group of candidates to be voted on shall
be preceded by the designation of the office for which the candidates seek nomination,...
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17-13-12
Section 17-13-12 Returning officers. The inspector shall perform the duty of precinct returning
officer as in general elections, unless someone else has been named and designated as authorized
by law. It shall be the duty of the inspector or the duty of such returning officer as may
be otherwise legally named and designated, as the case may be, to return and deliver to the
sheriff, who is the county returning officer, or the sheriff's designee, at the office of
the judge of probate at the county seat or at such other place as designated by the judge
of probate, the ballots and returns. The ballots and returns shall not be allowed to leave
the county returning officer's possession, except as provided by state and federal law. (Acts
1975, No. 1196, p. 2349, §26; §17-16-30; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331,
§59; Act 2007-147, p. 180, §1.)...
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11-46-61
Section 11-46-61 Offenses of election officers generally. (a) Any election officer appointed
as such by a municipal governing body who shall fail to attend a municipal election without
a lawful excuse shall, on conviction, be fined not more than $100.00. (b) Any election officer
who drinks any intoxicating liquors while any election is being held shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $50.00. (c) Any election officer
who, without lawful excuse, neglects, fails, or refuses to perform any official duty prescribed
by this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, unless otherwise provided, and, on conviction,
shall be fined not less than $50.00. (d) Any election officer who discloses how any elector
voted shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $100.00
nor more than $500.00, and may also be sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more
than six months. (e) If any election officer willfully...
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17-16-30
Section 17-16-30 Returning officers. THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED AND RENUMBERED AS SECTIONS 17-13-12
AND 17-17-49 BY ACT 2006-570 IN THE 2006 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2007. The sheriff
shall perform the duty of returning officer as in general elections, unless someone else has
been named and designated as authorized by law. It shall be his duty or the duty of such returning
officer as may be otherwise legally named and designated, as the case may be, to return and
deliver to the chairman of the county executive committee of each of the political parties
participating in the primary election, at the office of the judge of probate at the county
seat, the ballot boxes and returns which have been delivered to him by the officers of said
election, and such ballot boxes and returns shall not be allowed to leave his possession and
must be returned by him to such chairman not later than 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday following
said primary election. Each and all persons failing to perform...
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12-17-114
Section 12-17-114 Duties generally. (a) It is the duty of the register, within his respective
county: (1) To administer oaths in all cases; to issue all processes from the circuit court
as to equitable cases; to make orders of publication for defendants; to grant default judgments
for want of answers; to issue attachments and processes of sequestration; to make all interlocutory
decrees and orders, not affecting the decision of the controversy between the parties, subject
at all times to the control, direction and supervision of the circuit court; and to exercise
such other duties as are, or may be, conferred by law, including administrative rules promulgated
by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. (2) To keep a consolidated docket sheet of all cases
filed, in which must be entered the names of plaintiffs and defendants, the names of the attorneys
of the several parties, a minute of the time when process issued and was returned, the return
thereon and note of all the orders and...
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