17-13-15
Section 17-13-15 When voted ballots container and records of election container may be opened.
After the result has been canvassed and declared by the county executive committee, the sheriff
shall securely keep the voted ballots container and the records of election container in accordance
with state and federal law. The voted ballots container and records of election container
shall not be opened except in one or the other of the following events: (1) In the event of
a contest, where the opening of the container has been authorized under authority of the chair
of the executive committee trying the contest. (2) Where a container has been returned but
no certificate of the result of the election has been sent the chair outside of the container,
the container may be opened by the sheriff in the presence of the chairs, or their designees,
of the county committees for the political parties participating in the primary election,
and the committees, for canvassing purposes, may obtain the...
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17-13-50
Section 17-13-50 Party meetings to nominate candidates, select delegates, party officers, etc.
(a) When any political party shall desire to hold any mass meeting, beat meeting, or other
meeting of the voters of such party for the purpose of nominating any candidate or candidates
for public office to be voted for in a general election in Alabama or for the purpose of selecting
delegates or other representatives to any convention which may select such candidates for
public office or when any such party shall desire to hold such mass meeting, beat meeting,
or other meeting of the voters of such party for the purpose of selecting committeemen, representatives,
or other party officers of such party, all of such meetings shall be held as provided in this
section. (b) All such meetings shall be held before the first primary election. The general
public is privileged to attend such meetings, but not to participate. No less than five days
prior to the date upon which any such mass meeting, beat...
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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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17-12-2
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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17-13-16
Section 17-13-16 Public proclamation of results of election; distribution of certificates of
results. The counting of the ballots having been completed, the results shall be publicly
proclaimed. Separate certificates for each of the political parties entering the primary and
the results of the election shall be drawn up by the inspector and clerks at each and every
voting place, which shall contain all matters and things provided for in the law regulating
general elections. The certificates shall be signed by the election workers; one copy of the
same shall be forthwith posted in a conspicuous place at such voting place, one copy shall
be transmitted to the chair of the county executive committee of each of the political parties
in the primary, at such place as the county executive committee of the county shall designate
at which to receive such returns, and another copy shall be transmitted to the chairs of the
state executive committees of the political parties participating in the...
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17-4-2.1
Section 17-4-2.1 Electronic poll books. (a) The Secretary of State may allow the use of electronic
poll books in lieu of the printed lists of qualified voters provided for in Section 17-4-2
and the poll lists provided for in Sections 17-9-11 and 17-13-7. A county, with consent of
the county commission and judge of probate, may use electronic poll books in lieu of the printed
lists of qualified voters. In addition, the Secretary of State and municipal governing bodies
may allow the use of electronic poll books in lieu of the printed lists of qualified voters
provided for in Section 11-46-36 or any local law governing a municipal election. (b) A participating
county or municipality may adopt the use of any electronic poll book that has been certified
by the Secretary of State for use in this state. (c) To be certified for use by the Secretary
of State, an electronic poll book shall do all of the following: (1) Be secure. (2) Be compatible
with the statewide voter registration system. (3)...
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17-5-7
Section 17-5-7 Use of excess moneys received; solicitation, etc., of contributions. (a) Except
as provided in subsection (d) and in Section 17-5-7.1, a candidate, public official, or treasurer
of a principal campaign committee as defined in this chapter, may only use campaign contributions,
and any proceeds from investing the contributions that are in excess of any amount necessary
to defray expenditures of the candidate, public official, or principal campaign committee,
for the following purposes: (1) Necessary and ordinary expenditures of the campaign. (2) Expenditures
that are reasonably related to performing the duties of the office held. For purposes of this
section, expenditures that are reasonably related to performing the duties of the office held
do not include personal and legislative living expenses, as defined in this chapter. (3) Donations
to the State General Fund, the Education Trust Fund, or equivalent county or municipal funds.
(4) Donations to an organization to which...
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45-49-111.01
Section 45-49-111.01 Compensation. (a) In Mobile County, the compensation of the election officers
holding general, special, primary, and municipal elections shall be two hundred dollars ($200)
per day for inspectors, one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175) per day for chief clerks,
and one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per day for the other election officers. The compensation
of the inspectors and chief clerks for attending any mandatory school or training as required
by the judge of probate shall be thirty dollars ($30). The compensation of other election
officials for attending any mandatory school or training as required by the judge of probate
shall be fifteen dollars ($15). The county treasury and, when appropriate, the treasuries
of the various municipalities within the county, shall pay such amounts necessary, which,
when combined with any amount payable by the state will total the amounts hereinabove provided.
The returning officer shall be entitled to mileage allowance...
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11-44E-41
Section 11-44E-41 Statement of candidacy. Any person desiring to become a candidate in any
election for the office of commissioner may become such candidate by filing in the office
of the city clerk a statement in writing of such candidacy accompanied by a petition signed
by a minimum of fifty registered voters of such commission district or in the case of mayor,
one hundred registered voters of the municipality, endorsing the candidacy of such candidate
and an affidavit taken and certified by such city clerk or notary public. Such statement shall
be filed by 5:00 P.M. on the fourth Tuesday in June preceding the date set for the election
and shall be substantially in 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 said State and County, and reside at _____ in said City of _____, that I desire
to become a candidate for the office of commissioner for District _____, in said City...
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45-37A-52.91
Section 45-37A-52.91 Statement of candidacy. Any person desiring to become a candidate at any
election for the office of mayor 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, accompanied by 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 in 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 the office of mayor in that city at the election of the
office to be held on the ______ day of August, next and that I am duly qualified...
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