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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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17-1-2
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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34-16-4
Section 34-16-4 Licensure Board for Interpreters and Transliterators - Creation; composition;
meetings; duties; compensation. (a) There is created the Alabama Licensure Board for Interpreters
and Transliterators. (b) The board shall consist of nine members appointed by the Governor
as follows: (1) Four members certified as interpreters or transliterators at a professional
level by a nationally recognized certification, one of whom shall work in an educational setting.
A list of three nominations for each of these positions shall be submitted to the Governor
by ALRID. (2) Three deaf or hard of hearing members who are knowledgeable in the field of
professional interpreting. A list of three nominations for each of these positions shall be
submitted to the Governor by AAD. (3) Two members at-large who have an interest in and are
experienced in dealing with issues that affect the deaf, hard of hearing, and interpreting
communities. (c) All members of the board shall be citizens of the...
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17-12-15
Section 17-12-15 Time and manner of canvassing. On the second Friday next after the election,
at the hour of 12:00 noon, the sheriff, in person or by deputy, and the judge of probate and
the clerk of the circuit court shall assemble at the courthouse; and if there is no such judge
or clerk, or if either of them fails to attend, or if either of them is interested by reason
of having been a candidate at such election, his or her place must be supplied by a respectable
elector of the county, appointed by the board hereinbefore provided for the appointing of
the inspectors in the various voting places for the election, at the time of appointing the
election inspectors, and if the appointing board fails to provide for such member or members,
or if any member or members as herein provided should fail to attend at the time and place
herein mentioned, the sheriff shall supply such deficiency by a respectable elector of the
county; and if all such officers are of the same political party, then...
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17-6-23
Section 17-6-23 Uniform ballots at each polling place; electors for President and Vice President.
There shall be provided at each polling place at each election at which public officers are
voted for, but one form of ballot for all the candidates for public office, and every ballot
shall contain the names of all candidates whose nominations for any office specified on the
ballot have been duly made and not withdrawn, as provided in this chapter, together with the
title of the office, arranged in tickets under the titles of the respective political parties
or independent bodies as certified in the certificates of nomination. When electors for the
President and Vice President of the United States are to be elected, the names of the candidates
for President and Vice President shall be listed on the ballot, but not the names of the electors.
(Code 1907, §378; Code 1923, §468; Code 1940, T. 17, §153; §17-8-3; amended and renumbered
by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §29.)...
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17-6-24
Section 17-6-24 Printing and design. (a) All ballots shall be in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter and shall contain a party emblem for each political party represented on the
ticket. The arrangement of the ballot shall in general conform substantially to the plan hereinafter
given, and in all cases the party columns must be placed in alphabetical order, beginning
on the left of the ballot. The list of candidates of the several parties shall be printed
in parallel and perpendicular columns, each column to be headed by the chosen device of such
party and the party name or other designation in such order as the Secretary of State may
direct. The number of columns shall exceed by one the number of separate tickets of candidates
to be voted for at the polling place for which the ballot is provided, and in the appropriate
place the words vote for one (or two or other number, as the case may be) to indicate the
number which may be elected to each office. On the right of each...
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34-11-30
Section 34-11-30 Creation and composition; nominating committee; terms of office. (a) A State
Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors is created. It shall be the
duty of the board to administer this chapter. The board shall consist of five members licensed
as professional engineers, two members licensed as professional land surveyors, and two public
members. One of the professional land surveyor members may also be licensed as a professional
engineer. All members shall be appointed by the Governor. The five professional engineers
shall be appointed from a list of three persons nominated for each appointment by a professional
engineer nominating committee; the two professional land surveyors shall be appointed from
a list of three persons nominated for each appointment by the Alabama Society of Professional
Land Surveyors; and, once the board has adopted rules establishing a public member nominating
committee, the two public members shall be appointed from a...
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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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16-36-60
Section 16-36-60 State Textbook Committee. (a) The State Textbook Committee is created. The
committee shall consider the merit of textbooks offered for use in the public elementary and
high schools of the state and make recommendations for approval or rejection, or both, to
the State Board of Education as hereinafter provided. In making recommendations to the State
Board of Education, the State Textbook Committee shall also consider any recommendations made
by the State Courses of Study Committee or by the State Superintendent of Education. (b) The
State Textbook Committee shall be composed of 23 members. Four of the members shall be secondary
school classroom teachers and four elementary school classroom teachers. One of these eight
members shall be appointed from each of the seven United States Congressional Districts, as
such districts are constituted on July 1, 1998, and one shall be appointed statewide. Four
members shall be appointed from the state at large, and these four...
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