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11-46-4
Section 11-46-4 Identification of electors eligible to vote; municipality, county contracts;
official poll list. (a) The incorporated municipalities of this state are hereby authorized
to enter into contracts with the counties of this state and their boards of registrars to
conduct an identification program of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. The
said municipalities are authorized to expend public funds in payment of services rendered
by such counties and boards of registrars in such identification program. Such contracts shall
be authorized by appropriate resolution of the governing body of the municipality. It shall
be the duty of the various boards of registrars to conduct an identification program of electors
residing in the municipality and eligible to vote in municipal elections upon adoption of
an appropriate resolution of the governing body of the municipality and upon approval of a
contract between the municipality and the county and its board of registrars....
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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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11-46-50
Section 11-46-50 Identification of voters where voting machines used; voting procedure;
assistance of voters; provisional ballot. (a) The election officials, where voting machines
are used, shall ascertain whether each applicant to vote is entitled to vote, and each applicant
found to be entitled to vote shall be permitted to vote in the manner provided in this article.
Each applicant to vote shall identify himself or herself to the chief clerk, who shall examine
the list of qualified electors furnished by the municipal clerk and, if such voter's name
appears on such list, the chief clerk shall mark the applicant's name off the list. The applicant,
unless unable to write his or her own name because of physical handicap or illiteracy, shall
then sign his or her name on the poll list on the line numbered to indicate the order in which
the voters cast their ballots, and the clerk shall record the voter's name on a second poll
list on the line numbered to indicate the order in which 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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11-46-24
Section 11-46-24 Designating and equipping voting places; election officials; canvass
returns. (a) The municipal governing body may, when it orders an election, designate at least
one place of voting in each ward and if the ward has been divided into voting districts then
at least one place of voting in each district or the municipal governing body may establish
and designate one central place (location) within the municipality as the place of voting
for all wards. The number of voting boxes or voting machines as prescribed, shall be placed
in a central place of voting for use by the electors. The municipal governing body shall provide
at least one machine or at least one box for the voters of each ward, provided that this requirement
shall not apply to any municipality which uses electronic vote counters or tabulators or other
devices that are regulated by the Alabama Electronic Voting Committee established in Chapter
24 of Title 17 that are capable of counting the ballots from all...
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11-46-68
Section 11-46-68 Miscellaneous offenses. (a) Any person who shall willfully fail or
refuse to perform or discharge any duty relating to absent voters required of him by this
article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not more than
$100.00. (b) Any person found drunk or intoxicated at or about any polling place during any
municipal election day is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not
more than $500.00 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor
for the county for not more than six months. (c) Any person who, at a municipal election,
interferes with any elector when inside the polling place or when marking the ballot, or unduly
influences or attempts to unduly influence any elector in the preparation of his ballot must,
on conviction, be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00. (d) Any person who, during
or before a municipal election, willfully removes, tears down, destroys, or defaces any...
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17-16-1
Section 17-16-1 Preservation of voted ballot containers and records of election containers;
electronic voting specialists. (a) The voted ballot containers and records of election containers
shall remain sealed for the time provided by law for the filing of contests and then shall
have the seal broken only on the order of that body which, under the general provisions of
law, now has charge of and control over voted ballot containers and records of election containers
in that county, municipality, or other political subdivision. If, in the opinion of such body,
a contest has developed or is likely to develop, the containers shall remain sealed until
such time as ordered opened by the court hearing the contest, or until a final determination
of the contest. On the order of any court of competent jurisdiction or on the order of any
legislative body or governing body having jurisdiction over such election, the seal may be
broken for the purpose of proper investigation and when such...
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11-46-39
Section 11-46-39 Oath and identification of voters challenged; voting procedure where
paper ballots used. (a) Where paper ballots are used, the inspector, upon the elector's entering
the polling place, shall examine the list of qualified electors furnished by the clerk pursuant
to subsection (a) of Section 11-46-36, and, if it appears from this examination that
the person is a qualified elector of the state authorized to vote at that box, the inspector
shall then give the person one ballot on the stub of which the inspector shall write or shall
have already written his or her name or initials. If the person's name does not appear on
the list of qualified voters for that ward or box, the person may not vote except by provisional
ballot. (b) In cities of more than 3,000 inhabitants, each elector on receiving a ballot shall
forthwith and without leaving the polling place retire alone to one of the booths or compartments
provided for that purpose and there prepare the ballot in the manner...
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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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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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