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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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17-8-1
Section 17-8-1 Appointment of election officials; duties. (a) The appointing board, or a majority
of them acting as an appointing board, not more than 20 nor less than 15 days before the holding
of any election in their county, shall appoint from the qualified electors of the respective
precinct, necessary precinct election officials, which shall include at least one inspector,
to act at each voting place in each precinct. The appointing board may appoint the number
of precinct election officials necessary for each precinct, provided that, absent consent
of the county commission, the total number of precinct election officials appointed in a county
shall not exceed the total number of precinct election officials who were paid by the county
for the general election held November 2004. In the event that the number of precincts or
voting places utilized in an election within a county is increased or decreased, the total
number of officials who may be appointed without consent of the...
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17-9-7
Section 17-9-7 When election officials to meet, open polling place, etc. The precinct election
officials appointed shall meet at the place of holding elections in the several voting places
for which they have been appointed not later than 30 minutes before the scheduled opening
of the polls and shall open the several polling places at the time designated. (Code 1907,
§358; Code 1923, §448; Code 1940, T. 17, §131; Acts 1979, No. 79-616, p. 1086, §2; §17-7-6;
amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §44.)...
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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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11-46-51
Section 11-46-51 Instruction of voters in use of machines; oath, etc., of disabled voters;
assistance of voters. (a) The election officers shall, with the aid of the diagrams authorized
by this article and the mechanically operated model, instruct each voter before he enters
the voting machine booth regarding the operation of the machine and shall give the voter opportunity
personally to operate the model. No voter shall be permitted to receive any assistance in
voting at any election, unless he shall first state in writing upon printed forms supplied
for that purpose and under oath or affirmation, which shall be administered to him by the
inspector, that he is blind or that he cannot read the names on the voting machines or that,
by reason of physical disability, he is unable to see the machine or prepare it for voting
or to enter the voting machine booth without assistance. The voter shall state the specific
physical disability which requires him to receive assistance. Thereupon the...
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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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11-46-52
Section 11-46-52 Closing of polls; locking of machines; announcement of results; statements
of canvass; proclamation; disposition of voting materials. (a) 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. As soon as the last voter has voted and the
poll closed, the election officials shall immediately lock the machines against voting. (b)
The election officials shall then sign a certificate stating that the machine was locked and
sealed, giving the exact time. Such certificate shall also state the number of voters shown
on the public counters, which shall be the total number of votes cast on such machine in that
ward, the number on the seal, and the number registered on the protective counter. (c) The
election officials shall then open the counting compartment in the presence of the watchers
and of at least one representative of any newspaper or press association...
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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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11-46-29
Section 11-46-29 Appointment of election officers upon failure of others to attend polls. On
the failure of any person who has been duly appointed an election officer to attend the polls
at the hour prescribed for his attendance, such of the election officers appointed for that
voting box or machine as are present may appoint such election officers as are needed to complete
the number of election officials for the box or machine. All persons so appointed shall be
qualified electors who are entitled to vote at that polling place. Should all the appointed
election officers fail to be present at a polling place by the hour prescribed on election
day, then any three qualified electors who are entitled by law to vote at that polling place
at the election then to be held may open the polls, act as three of the election officers
for such box or machine and appoint such other officers as are required to fill the place
of those absent; provided, that every person so appointed shall be a...
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17-6-3
Section 17-6-3 Voting districts; naming of precincts. (a) Except as may be provided further
by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes, the counties in this state,
as divided pursuant to this chapter into election precincts, and the boundaries of such precincts
shall so remain until changed by order of the county governing body, but the county governing
body, at its first regular meeting in March in each even-numbered year, shall subdivide any
election precinct in which there are more than 2,400 qualified voters and electronic voting
machines are used into voting districts or shall divide alphabetically the list of qualified
voters in such precincts into groups and assign each qualified voter a designated voting place
so as to provide an electronic voting machine for every person legally entitled to vote at
a polling place at which not more than 2,400 votes on a single electronic voting machine will
be cast. (b) Except as may be provided further by local...
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