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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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12-3-2
Section 12-3-2 Election and term of judges of Court of Criminal Appeals; designation of panels
of judges to decide cases. (a) The offices of the three judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals
that were filled in the general election of 1970 pursuant to Act No. 987 of the 1969 Regular
Session of the Legislature shall be filled by election from the state at large in the general
election held each six years thereafter, or as the end of the term of such office may thereafter
occur pursuant to the Constitution. (b) The offices of the two judges of the Court of Criminal
Appeals that were filled in the general election of 1972 pursuant to Act No. 75 of the 1971
Third Special Session of the Legislature shall be filled by election from the state at large
in the general election held each six years thereafter, or as the end of the term of such
office may thereafter occur pursuant to the Constitution. (c) The presiding judge of the Court
of Criminal Appeals may from time to time designate panels...
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17-6-4
Section 17-6-4 Designating and equipping voting places; county voting centers. (a) Except as
may be provided further by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes,
the county governing bodies shall designate the places of holding elections in the precincts
established hereunder, and, whenever the county has alphabetically divided the list of registered
qualified voters of a precinct into groups, it shall designate not only the voting place but
also the number of electronic voting machines at each voting place in the precinct, being
sure that it designates an electronic voting machine for each group of qualified voters. The
county governing body is specifically authorized to provide for installing as many electronic
voting machines as are needed in each precinct, and the electronic voting machines may be
installed at one designated voting place or there may be more than one voting place designated
and such number of electronic voting machines installed at each place...
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11-50A-6
Section 11-50A-6 Board of directors; election committee; meetings; officers; compensation;
recordkeeping. (a) The board of directors of the authority shall be elected by the duly designated
representatives of the municipalities which are authorized and directed to designate a member
of the election committee as hereinafter provided in this section. Until the first meeting
of the board of directors following the meeting in 2015 of the election committee hereinafter
provided for, the board of directors shall consist of nine members; thereafter, the board
shall consist of the number of members equal to the number of municipalities contracting with
the authority for the purchase of electric power and energy pursuant to Section 11-50A-17,
which are authorized and directed to designate a member of the election committee. Members
of the board of directors shall be eligible to succeed themselves. The business, affairs,
and property of the authority shall be managed by its board of directors....
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16-13-164
Section 16-13-164 Ballot and election supplies. The county commission shall provide a sufficient
number of ballots for each voting precinct within said county, and at the top of each ballot
shall be printed the rate of such proposed tax, the time it is to be continued and that the
purpose is for the support of the public schools, and directly underneath in plain type shall
be printed on different lines the words, "For proposed taxation," "Against
proposed taxation," and a place must be left directly to the left of each line thereof,
and the voters favoring the proposed taxation will make a cross mark directly to the left
of the line, "For proposed taxation," and the voter not favoring proposed taxation
will make a cross mark directly to the left of the line "Against proposed taxation."
(School Code 1927, §257; Code 1940, T. 52, §250.)...
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17-11-12
Section 17-11-12 Delivery of ballots, envelopes, etc. to absentee election manager. Not less
than 55 days prior to the holding of any election, except a municipal election, to which this
chapter pertains, or in the case of a runoff primary election, not more than 14 days after
the first primary election, the officer charged with the printing and distribution of the
official ballots and election supplies shall deliver to the absentee election manager of each
county in which the election is held or to the person designated to serve in his or her place
a sufficient number of absentee ballots, envelopes, and other necessary supplies. Not more
than seven days after the last day to qualify as a candidate in a municipal election, or in
the case of a runoff municipal election, not more than 14 days after the first election, or
in the case of a municipal election held for a purpose other than the election of municipal
officers, not more than seven days after the giving of notice of the...
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17-16-46
Section 17-16-46 Procedure for examination of ballots, voting machines, etc.; bond. In all
election contests involving elections other than party primaries or runoffs: (1) The examining
person or candidate seeking to examine the ballots, electronic voting machines, or electronic
voting machine computations or printouts must move, within 10 days of the filing of the contest,
the court before whom the election contest is pending for an examination. The court shall
set a hearing on the motion for examination which must take place within 10 days after service
of the motion on the parties and candidates involved in the election contest. The hearing
shall be held to determine the procedures to be used for the examination and the court shall,
within five days after the hearing, set forth the procedures for the examination. Absent a
subsequent court order extending the time for reasonable cause shown, the examination must
be finished within 15 days of the court order which sets forth the...
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28-2A-1
Section 28-2A-1 Procedure for wet or dry classification option elections. (a) Any municipality
having a population of 1,000 or more, may change its classification from dry to wet or wet
to dry by a municipal option election, in the following manner. (b) Upon petition of 30 percent
of the number of voters voting in the last preceding general election of the municipality
being filed with the city or town clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing
body must call a municipal option election for the municipality to determine the sentiment
of the people as to whether or not alcoholic beverages can be legally sold or distributed
in the municipality. The petition for municipal option election shall contain the following:
"It is petitioned that a municipal option election be held to permit the legal sale and
distribution of alcoholic beverages within this municipality." On the ballot to be used
for such municipal option election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do...
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11-46-31
Section 11-46-31 Exhibition of voting machines for voter instruction and information; diagrams
furnished with voting machines. During the 30 days next preceding an election at which voting
machines will be used, the municipal governing body shall place on public exhibition in public
places and at times as it may deem most suitable for the information and instruction of the
voters one or more voting machines, containing the ballot labels and showing the offices and
questions to be voted upon and, so far as practicable, the names and arrangements of the candidates
for office. The machines will be under the charge and care of a person competent as custodian
and instructor. No voting machine which is to be assigned for use in an election shall be
used for public exhibition and instruction after having been prepared and sealed for the election.
This requirement shall not apply in any municipality which will use a vote tabulator that
requires voters to fill out a card or paper ballot that...
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16-9-5
Section 16-9-5 Nomination by political party. Any political party may, in a county where the
county superintendent is elected by a direct vote of the qualified electors, either nominate
a candidate for such office or may certify to the probate judge that said political party
desires to leave the election of a county superintendent of education to the county board
of education. Whenever any political party certifies that such political party desires to
leave the selection of such officer to the county board of education, the probate judge shall
cause to be entered on the ballot where the names of such candidates (if nominated) would
appear, the following: "For selection by the county board of education." Such proposition
shall appear on the ballot before the names of the candidates and be arranged so that the
elector may express his choice for such proposition in the same manner as he expresses his
choice for a candidate. Every qualified elector may vote for such selection by the county...
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