45-31-110.05
Section 45-31-110.05 Inspector, chief clerk, and assistant clerks; duties. (a) For each voting center where only one voting machine is to be used, the election officials shall consist of an inspector, a chief clerk, and two assistant clerks. For each voting center where more than one voting machine is to be used there shall be appointed one chief inspector who shall supervise the conduct of the other officials and the operation of the voting center, one inspector and one chief clerk, and for each voting machine to be used at such center there shall be appointed two assistant clerks. For each voting center where more than four voting machines are to be used there may be appointed two additional assistant clerks for each group of four voting machines or fraction thereof. (b) The election officers provided for herein shall be appointed by the same officers that appoint other election officers as provided for in Section 17-13-48. They shall perform all duties imposed on election officers...
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11-43A-5
Section 11-43A-5 Form and marking of ballots. At such election the question to be submitted shall be printed in plain, prominent type on separate ballots and shall read as follows: "Shall the council-manager form of government as provided by the Council-Manager Act of 1982 be adopted for the municipality of ___ ? Yes ______ No ______" The voter shall mark his ballot with a cross mark (X) after the word which expresses his choice. (Acts 1982, No. 82-517, p. 851, §5.)...
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45-5A-70
Section 45-5A-70 Election of board of education; referendum. (a)(1) Pursuant to Amendment 659 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, and as soon as practicable after final approval of this section by the United States Department of Justice, if necessary, the Oneonta City Council shall call an authorizing referendum election, to be held at the time of the next general election held in the city on November 7, 2000, regarding changing the Oneonta City Board of Education to an elected city board of education. (2) If a majority of the qualified electors of the municipality voting in the authorizing referendum election vote in favor of an elected city board of education, the board shall be established as provided in this section and the Legislature, as provided in Amendment 659, from time to time, by local law may provide further for the election and operation of the Oneonta City Board of Education. The local laws may provide for the termination of the terms of office of members of the...
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11-43C-91
Section 11-43C-91 Procedure for changing form of government; change from mayor-council form prohibited for four years. The city is prohibited from changing from the mayor-council form of government within four years after the adoption thereof. At the end of such period, or at any time thereafter, the city's form of government may be amended or changed when: (i) Awritten petition executed by 10 percent of the number of those who voted in the last city election is submitted to the council with the proposed changes or amendments incorporated in the petition; after presentation of the petition, the council shall call for a referendum vote on the proposed changes and amendments, and (ii) a majority of the votes cast in the referendum is in favor of the proposed changes or amendments. After the council receives the proposed changes and petition, it shall call a special election for the purpose of determining whether the city shall adopt the changes or amendments. Notice shall be given of the...
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11-44C-91
Section 11-44C-91 Procedure for changing form of government; change from mayor-council form prohibited for two years. The city is prohibited from changing from the mayor-council form of government within two years after the adoption thereof. At the end of such period, or at any time thereafter, the city's form of government may be amended or changed when: (1) A written petition executed by 10 percent of the number of those who voted in the last city election is submitted to the council with the proposed changes or amendments incorporated in the petition; after presentation of the petition, the council shall call for a referendum vote on the proposed changes and amendments, and (2) A majority of the votes cast in the referendum is in favor of the proposed changes or amendments. After the council receives the proposed changes and petition, it shall call a special election for the purpose of determining whether the city shall adopt the changes or amendments. Notice shall be given of the...
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11-46-9
Section 11-46-9 Election commission in Class 1 municipality. In any Class 1 municipality, the mayor, the city attorney, and the president of the city council shall constitute an election commission for the city. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if either the mayor or the president of the council is a candidate for office, the mayor shall appoint a member of the city council who is not a candidate for office to serve on the election commission for the election in which the mayor or the president is a candidate. In the event that both the mayor and the president of the council are candidates for office at the same election, the mayor shall appoint two members of the council who are not candidates for office to serve on the election commission in place of the mayor and the president. If the mayor and all members of the council are candidates for office at the same election, the mayor shall designate a senior member of his or her staff and the council president shall designate a senior...
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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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11-42-123
Section 11-42-123 Ordering of election by proclamation. If the council or governing body of each city or town confirms the agreement, then the mayor of the city or town proposed to be annexed to the other city or town shall, by proclamation, order an election to be held on a day fixed in the proclamation in his city or town, submitting to a vote of the qualified electors in his city or town the following proposition: "Shall the agreement for the annexation of (naming the city or town) to (naming the city or town) be ratified?" and stating in such proclamation that one of the triplicates of the agreement made which is submitted for ratification is on file in the office of the clerk of such city or town, open to the inspection of the public. (Code 1907, §1136; Code 1923, §1831; Code 1940, T. 37, §198.)...
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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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11-43C-2
Section 11-43C-2 Special election as to adoption of mayor-council form of government. After May 21, 1987, the mayor or chief executive officer of any city to which this chapter applies may call a special election to be held in 1987, for the purpose of determining whether such city shall adopt the mayor-council form of government, and shall give notice of the time and purpose of such election by publication once each week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in said city or in the nearest larger city. All qualified electors of such city may participate in said election, as provided by this chapter, and such questions shall be plainly printed upon the ballot as provided in Section 11-43C-3. The election shall be conducted, the expenses paid, the votes canvassed, and the results declared in the same manner as is or may be provided by law in other city elections. The proposal for which the majority of the votes cast shall be "yes," or in favor of such proposition, shall...
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