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17-6-5
Section 17-6-5 List of voters for each voting place. The judge of probate shall prepare a separate,
correct alphabetical list of all the names of qualified electors or voters for each voting
place from the state voter registration list, pursuant to Sections 17-4-1 and 17-4-2, for
all elections hereafter held in this state, whether primary, general, or special, or federal,
state, district, or county, and, except for municipal elections, shall certify separately
for each voting place, to the election officials appointed for holding the election, which
election official shall be an elector qualified to vote only in the box at the place for which
he or she is chosen to serve, a list containing only the names of the voters or qualified
electors entitled to vote at the voting place. Nothing in this section shall prevent a series
of lists of names of voters or electors of other voting places from being certified by the
judge of probate on the same general list for information. A vote cast at...
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17-11-3.1
Section 17-11-3.1 Qualified voter with permanent disability preventing attendance at polls.
(a) Notwithstanding Sections 17-11-3, 17-11-4, and 17-11-5, a qualified voter who has a permanent
disability preventing his or her attendance at the polls may vote by absentee ballot in accordance
with this section. (b) The Secretary of State shall adopt rules that provide a process for
a voter who has a permanent disability to be placed on an absentee voter list and have a ballot
automatically mailed to him or her before each election. The rules shall include, but not
be limited to, all of the following: (1) An application procedure for permanently disabled
voters to vote by absentee ballot on an on-going basis. The procedure shall require that the
application form be signed and notarized by the disabled voter's primary physician. (2) A
procedure for verifying the identity of a voter and determining that the voter has a permanent
disability preventing his or her attendance at the polls. (3) A...
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17-13-3
Section 17-13-3 Time and place for holding primary elections. (a) Except as otherwise provided
in subsection (b), primary elections, except special primary elections and presidential preference
primaries, held at the expense of the state or counties, shall be held on the fourth Tuesday
in May. When necessary, as provided in this chapter, a second or runoff primary election shall
be held on the fourth Tuesday following the primary election. Any second primary shall be
held by the same election officers who held the first primary, and be held at the same places
as the first primary election. No primary shall be held by any political party except as herein
provided. Primary elections herein provided for shall be held at the regular polling places
established for the purpose of holding general elections. (b) In years in which a presidential
primary is conducted, the primary election shall be the first Tuesday in March. (c) Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, in any year in which...
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17-13-48
Section 17-13-48 Selection and appointment of officers to conduct elections. Each candidate
for nomination may, at least 45 days before the primary, present to the county executive committee
of his or her party a list of election officials desired by him or her for any one or more
of the districts, wards, or precincts, and the county committee, so far as practicable, shall
make, from the list so presented to it, a list of names of election officials for each district,
ward, or precinct, which it will nominate to the appointing board of the county for appointment
as officials to conduct the primary election. The county committee shall present the list
so made up by it to the appointing board of the county which appoints the election officials
to conduct elections for state and county officials in November, or at any other lawful time,
which appointing board, from the list so presented to it by the county committee, shall, if
there be on the list the names of sufficient persons who are...
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17-9-15
Section 17-9-15 Disposition of records and forms after close of polls. After the close of the
polls in all primary, special, general, and municipal elections held in the state, the records
and forms produced at the polling places shall be returned as follows: (1) The list of registered
voters, the affirmations of provisional voters, the statements of election officials challenging
provisional voters, and the voter reidentification forms shall be sealed in an envelope addressed
to the board of registrars and the inspectors and any poll watchers present shall sign across
the seal. The board of registrars shall hold the list of registered voters while using it
to update their voter histories in accordance with Article 2 of Chapter 4. A copy of the list
of registered voters shall be made a public record after the information specified in subdivision
(1) of subsection (b) of Section 17-4-33 has been redacted by the board of registrars. The
original and copies of the list shall then be...
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17-11-4
Section 17-11-4 Form and contents of application; signature of applicant; filing of application.
The application required in Section 17-11-3 shall be filed with the person designated to serve
as the absentee election manager. The application shall be in a form prescribed and designed
by the Secretary of State and shall be used throughout the state. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
handwritten applications can also be accepted at any time prior to the five-day deadline to
receive absentee ballot applications as provided in Section 17-11-3. The application shall
contain sufficient information to identify the applicant and shall include the applicant's
name, residence address, or such other information necessary to verify that the applicant
is a registered voter. The application shall also list all felonies of moral turpitude, as
provided in Section 17-3-30.1. Any applicant may receive assistance in filling out the application
as he or she desires, but each application shall be manually...
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17-13-13
Section 17-13-13 Counting of votes; results to be posted for public inspection. (a) At the
close of the primary election at each voting place, and nowhere else, the inspectors and clerks
shall proceed forthwith, without adjournment, in the manner provided by law in the case of
general elections, to count the votes. This section shall not apply to provisional ballots
governed by Section 17-10-2. (b) No later than two hours after the polls are closed, the election
results for the voting place as tabulated by the inspectors shall be posted by the inspectors
for public inspection at a place in the county courthouse designated by the judge of probate.
(Acts 1975, No. 1196, p. 2349, §27; Act 2003-313, p. 733, §2; Act 2003-339, p. 846, §2;
§17-16-31; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §59.)...
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17-13-71
Section 17-13-71 Grounds. The contests of nomination by a party for office, other than a county
office, may be instituted by any qualified elector of the state, or of the political subdivision,
as the case may be, who belongs to that party and who legally participated in such primary
election, upon the following grounds, which may be used separately, or else be joined in the
same contest: (1) Malconduct, fraud, or corruption on the part of any inspector, clerk, returning
officer, canvassing board, or other persons. (2) When a person whose nomination is contested
was not eligible to the office sought at the time of the declaration of nomination. (3) On
account of illegal votes given. (4) On account of the rejection of legal votes. (5) Offers
to bribe, bribery, intimidation, or other malconduct or misconduct calculated to prevent a
fair, free, and full exercise of the elective franchise. (6) Miscalculation, mistake, or misconduct
in counting, tallying, certifying, or canvassing which of...
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17-16-21
Section 17-16-21 Recount procedures. (a) Any person with standing to contest the election under
Sections 17-16-40 and 17-16-47 may petition the canvassing authority for a recount of any
or all precinct returns. The time period for requesting a recount begins with the production
of the certificate of result and ends 48 hours after the official canvass of county returns.
The canvassing authority is the canvassing board in general elections and the county executive
committee in a party primary. The petitioner must be prepared to pay the cost of the recount
and shall give security to cover these costs. The canvassing authority shall set the amount
of the security based upon an estimate of actual costs. The costs shall be kept to a minimum
by using county personnel or volunteer workers whenever possible. However, the recount must
be conducted under the supervision of a trained and certified precinct election official.
Representatives of opposing interests shall be given at least 24 hours'...
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17-6-25
Section 17-6-25 Order of listing of candidates on ballots. The names of candidates for each
office shall be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order by surname, and the offices shall
be listed in the following order: (1) President (if preference primary). (2) Governor. (3)
Lieutenant Governor. (4) United States Senator. (5) United States Representative. (6) Attorney
General. (7) State Senator. (8) State Representative. (9) Supreme Court Justice. (10) Court
of Civil Appeals Judge. (11) Court of Criminal Appeals Judge. (12) Secretary of State. (13)
State Treasurer. (14) State Auditor. (15) Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries. (16)
Public Service Commissioner. (17) State Board of Education Member. (18) Circuit Court Judge.
(19) District Attorney. (20) District Court Judge. (21) Circuit Clerk. (22) Other public officers
(to be listed in the order prescribed by the judge of probate). (23) Delegate to national
convention. (24) Other party officers (to be listed in the order...
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