31-13-28
Section 31-13-28 Voter registration eligibility and requirements. (a) Applications for voter registration shall contain voter eligibility requirements and such information as is necessary to prevent duplicative voter registrations and enable the county board of registrars to assess the eligibility of the applicant and to administer voter registration, identify the applicant and to determine the qualifications of the applicant as an elector and the facts authorizing such person to be registered. Applications shall contain a statement that the applicant shall be required to provide qualifying identification when voting. (b) The Secretary of State shall create a process for the county board of registrars to check to indicate whether an applicant has provided with the application the information necessary to assess the eligibility of the applicant, including the applicant's United States citizenship. This section shall be interpreted and applied in accordance with federal law. No eligible...
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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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17-4-13
Section 17-4-13 Procedure for having name restored to list of qualified electors; limitation of provisions. Any qualified elector of the county whose name is omitted or removed from the list of qualified electors for failure to appear and reidentify himself or herself and who has not otherwise been reidentified as herein provided shall be entitled to have his or her name restored to the list of qualified electors by written affidavit or appearing in person before a registrar, at the office of the board of registrars, or at the office of the judge of probate, certifying that he or she is in fact a bona fide registered voter of that county; provided, however, that any qualified elector can be reidentified on election day; provided further, however, that this article shall not be construed or applied to impair or deny the right to vote in person or by absentee ballot of any person or of the spouse or child of any person who is in active duty of any of the Armed Forces of the United States...
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17-4-3
Section 17-4-3 County board of registrars to purge disqualified electors. (a) Each county board of registrars shall purge the computerized statewide voter registration list on a continuous basis, whenever it receives and confirms information that a person registered to vote in that county has died, become a nonresident of the state or county, been declared mentally incompetent, been convicted of any offense designated pursuant to Section 17-3-30.1 as a felony involving moral turpitude for the purposes of Article VIII of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 since being registered, or otherwise become disqualified as an elector. Except as provided below, a person convicted of a disqualifying criminal offense shall be notified by certified mail sent to the voter's last known address of the board's intention to strike his or her name from the list. No person convicted of a disqualifying crime may be stricken from the poll list while an appeal from the conviction is pending. (b) On the date...
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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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17-3-60
Section 17-3-60 Clerical assistance for judge of probate and board of registrars. The judge of probate may employ such assistants and clerical help as may be necessary to complete and properly prepare reports from the state voter registration list of the list of qualified electors which the judge of probate is required to furnish a certified copy to the election inspectors. The judge of probate shall receive or such assistants shall be paid out of the county treasury by warrants, drawn by the county commission on certificate of the judge of probate, accompanied by the certificates of the person being paid, showing the amount due under the provisions of this chapter, but the entire amount spent for the preparation of such lists shall not exceed a sum equal to the amount obtained by multiplying the number of names on the list by five cents ($.05) for the preparation of such list. The judge of probate in all counties having a population of not less than 100,000 nor more than 350,000,...
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17-4-5
Section 17-4-5 Notice of previous registration to be given. When a person makes application for registration before a county board of registrars, it shall be the duty of that board, if the elector has been previously registered before in any other county or state, to notify the registrar of voters in the county or state of the previous registration that such elector has applied for and been registered as an elector in the county where such application for registration is made. In addition to asking an elector whether he or she has been previously registered before in any other county or state, the board of registrars shall ascertain if an elector has been previously registered before in any other county of this state by conducting a computerized search of the statewide voter registration list, using the elector's name along with any other identifying information provided by the elector. When the notice required in this section is received by the board of registrars of any county where...
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45-37-110
Section 45-37-110 Chairs; clerks; deputies; meetings of board. (a) This section shall apply to counties of this state having a population of 500,000 or more according to the last or any subsequent federal census and to no other county. (b) As herein used, these words and terms have the meanings hereby given them: (1) CHAIR. The chair of the board of registrars. (2) COUNTY. Any county to which this section applies. (c) In every county wherein this section applies the governing body of the county shall appoint the chair of the board of registrars and such governing body may remove the chair; provided, however, that the appointment and removal of the chair shall be subject to the merit system of the county; and the chair shall otherwise be subject to and entitled to the benefits of the law establishing such merit system. The chair shall serve full time, and he, or she, shall receive compensation from the general funds of the county in an amount to be determined by the county governing...
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17-12-13
Section 17-12-13 Procedure; improperly marked ballots. Except where precinct ballot counters are used in counting the ballots, the inspector must take the ballots, one by one, from the box in which they have been deposited, at the same time reading aloud the names of the persons voted for and the office for which such persons are voted for; the inspector must separately keep a calculation of the number of votes each person receives and for what office he or she receives them; if the elector has marked more names than there are persons to be elected to an office, or if for any reason it is impossible to determine the elector's choice for any office to be filled, the ballot shall not be counted for such office, but this shall not vitiate the ballot so far as properly marked, nor shall any ballot be rejected for any technical error which does not make it impossible to determine the elector's choice, and nothing in the election law shall be construed so as to prevent any elector from...
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21-4-21
Section 21-4-21 Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning, the following terms shall have meanings ascribed to them as follows: (1) ELDERLY INDIVIDUAL. An individual 65 years of age or older; (2) ELECTION FOR STATE OFFICE. A general, special primary, or runoff election for an executive, legislative, or judicial state office that is contested on a statewide basis; (3) HANDICAPPED INDIVIDUAL. An individual qualified to vote, who, by reason of illness, injury, age, congenital malfunction, or other permanent or temporary incapacity or disability, is unable without accessible facilities or registration and voting aids to have access to registration and voting equal to that available to persons who are not so affected; (4) STATE. State of Alabama; (5) VOTING PRECINCT. The area inhabited by all individuals assigned to one polling place for a state election. (Acts 1985, No. 85-234, p. 133, ยง2.)...
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