17-1-2
Section 17-1-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this title, the following terms shall
have the definitions ascribed to them: (1) APPOINTING BOARD. In all elections the appointing
board consists of the judge of probate, circuit clerk, and sheriff of the county. (2) BALLOT.
The term includes paper ballots and electronic ballots. (3) BALLOT CONFIGURATION. The particular
combination and arrangement of offices, candidates, and questions for a precinct or subdivision
thereof. (4) BEAT. Has the same meaning as precinct. (5) BOX. The voting place in a precinct
or subdivision of a precinct for voting purposes. (6) CANVASSING BOARD. In all elections except
primary elections, the canvassing board consists of the judge of probate, circuit clerk, and
sheriff of the county. In primary elections, the county executive committee of the party is
the canvassing board for the primary of the party. (7) CENSUS BUREAU. The Bureau of the Census
of the United States Department of Commerce, or any successor...
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17-8-7
Section 17-8-7 Poll watchers. (a) Except in the case of municipal elections, each political
party or organization having candidates nominated, by a writing submitted to the inspector
by the chair of the county executive committee or nominees for office or beat committeeman,
may appoint a watcher for each voting place. In the event of an election in which there are
no candidates, each political party, through a writing submitted to the inspector by the chair
of the county executive committee, may appoint a watcher for each voting place. (b) Watchers
shall have the right to: (1) Observe the conduct of the election. (2) Monitor the preliminaries
of opening the polls. (3) Remain at the polling place throughout the election until the results
of the election have been posted and the voting machines sealed, as provided by law. (4) Observe
the ballots as they are counted. (5) Observe absentee ballots and affidavits when they are
called during the count. (6) See all oaths administered and...
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11-46-47
Section 11-46-47 Delivery, examination, and identification of keys to voting machines;
examination of counters, ballots, etc.; certification as to keys, counters, and ballots; opening
of machines and polls. (a) Whenever voting machines are used for municipal elections, the
key or keys to the voting machine or machines, still in the envelopes in which they were placed
when the machines were sealed for this election pursuant to subsection (b) of Section
11-46-33 and with the seals thereof unbroken and all other necessary election supplies shall
be delivered to the inspector of each poll at least 30 minutes before the time for opening
the polls. The inspector shall compare the number appearing on the envelope containing the
key or keys with the number shown in the protective counter, and, if these numbers are not
identical, he shall not break the seal on the envelope containing the keys, and he shall immediately
so notify the municipal clerk or his representative, who shall immediately...
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11-46-49
Section 11-46-49 Election officers for voting machines; duties. (a) At all elections
where voting machines are used, there shall be the following election officers for each voting
machine: An inspector, a chief clerk, and a first and a second assistant clerk; except, in
the event voting centers are established, then the requirements of Section 11-46-24
shall control the number of election officials. (b) The inspector shall be in general charge
of the poll, shall see that the counter compartments of the machine are never unlocked or
opened so that the counters are exposed during voting, shall see that the other election officers
perform the duties imposed on them by this section, shall keep a record of all voters
at such machine who received assistance pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 11-46-51,
and all other records required by this article, and immediately after the polls have closed
and the statement of the returns has been made, shall deliver such statement and the key or
keys...
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17-4-2
Section 17-4-2 State voter registration lists. The board of registrars, when registration
is closed before a primary, general, or special election, shall certify to the Secretary of
State any additions, deletions, corrections, or changes to the state voter registration list.
Except as provided in Section 17-4-2.1, after registration has closed and within the
10-day period before an election, the judge of probate and municipal election officials shall
prepare and print a report from the state voter registration list of the correct alphabetical
lists of the qualified electors registered by precincts, districts, or subdivisions of a precinct
where the precinct has been divided or subdivided, if not within a city or incorporated town,
and by wards and other subdivisions, if within a city or incorporated town, and no others.
An electronic archive in the database for the state voter registration list shall be recorded
simultaneously with the printing of each county's list of qualified...
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17-4-33
Section 17-4-33 Computerized statewide voter registration list. (a) The State of Alabama
shall provide, through the Secretary of State, a nondiscriminatory, single, uniform, official,
centralized, interactive computerized statewide voter registration list defined, maintained,
and administered by the Secretary of State, with advice from the Voter Registration Advisory
Board and the President of the Alabama Probate Judges Association, which contains the name
and registration information of every legally registered voter in the state. The computerized
list shall comply with the following requirements: (1) It shall serve as the single system
for storing and managing the official list of registered voters throughout the state. (2)
It shall contain the name, address, and voting location, as well as other information deemed
necessary by the Voter Registration Advisory Board or the Secretary of State, of every legally
registered voter in the state. (3) A unique identifier shall be assigned to...
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11-46-33
Section 11-46-33 Duties of clerk as to voting machines. (a) Whenever voting machines
are to be used in any municipal election the municipal clerk shall: (1) Cause the proper ballot
labels to be placed on the voting machines; (2) Cause the machines to be placed in proper
working order for voting; (3) Examine all voting machines in the presence of authorized watchers
for any interested persons before they are sent out to the polling places; (4) See that all
the registering counters are set at zero; (5) Lock, in the presence of authorized watchers,
all voting machines so that the counting machinery cannot be operated; and (6) Seal each one
with a numbered seal, a list of which numbered seals and the number on the protective counters,
together with the number of the voting place to which it was sent shall be kept as a permanent
record in such clerk's office, open to any citizen. (b) The inspection and sealing of voting
machines shall begin not later than 9:00 A.M., of the Monday before any...
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11-46-36
Section 11-46-36 Preparation, certification, filing, and publication of lists of qualified
regular voters. (a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of the city or town shall cause
to be made a list of the qualified voters who reside within the corporate limits of such city
or town and who are registered to vote regular ballots, dividing the same into separate alphabetical
lists of the qualified voters of each ward where such city or town has been divided into wards
and all qualified voters thereof vote at one box or voting machine, or dividing such list
into separate alphabetical lists of voters authorized to vote at each respective box or voting
machine if the list of qualified voters has been divided alphabetically and each alphabetical
group assigned a box or machine at which to vote. He or she shall have such lists compared
with the official list of electors qualified to vote during the current year on file in the
probate office of the county in which the municipality is...
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17-11-3
Section 17-11-3 Absentee balloting generally. (a) Any qualified elector of this state
may apply for and vote an absentee ballot by mail, by hand delivery, or by commercial carrier,
as determined by rule by the Secretary of State, as provided in Sections 17-11-5 and 17-11-9,
in any primary, general, special, or municipal election, if he or she makes application in
writing therefor not less than five days prior to the election in which he or she desires
to vote and meets one or more of the following requirements: (1) The person expects to be
out of the county or the state, or the municipality for municipal elections, on election day.
(2) The person has any physical illness or infirmity which prevents his or her attendance
at the polls, whether he or she is within or without the county on the day of the election.
(3) The person expects to work a shift which has at least 10 hours which coincide with the
hours the polls are open at his or her regular polling place. (4) The person is...
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11-46-32
Section 11-46-32 Election supplies. (a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of
the municipality shall at the expense of the municipality procure and superintend and insure
the delivery to the election officers at each polling place within the corporate limits of
the municipality of the necessary election supplies and shall also procure and deliver or
cause to be delivered to the municipal clerk a sufficient number of the absentee ballots and
the envelopes therefor prescribed by general laws and other supplies needed for the handling
of absentee ballots in such election in the manner prescribed by general law. In the event
the municipal clerk is a candidate in the election, he or she shall immediately upon receipt
of the absentee ballots and other supplies deliver the same to the person appointed pursuant
to Section 11-46-55 to act in his or her stead. (b) When paper ballots are used, such
supplies shall consist of: At least 100 ballots for each 50 registered electors at each...

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