11-43A-3.3
Section 11-43A-3.3 Election in Class 7 municipality - Adoption of council-manager form of government.
(a)(1) In addition to any mayor-council form of government authorized in this chapter, the
governing body of a Class 7 municipality may elect by resolution to adopt a council-manager
form of government comprised of a mayor and four council members elected at-large. No petition
of qualified electors is required to initiate such an election by the governing body pursuant
to this section. If the governing body elects to adopt a council-manager form of government
pursuant to this section, an election on the question shall be submitted to the qualified
electors of the municipality. The governing body shall hold the election before January 1,
2011. The question submitted at the election shall be: "Shall the municipality of ______
adopt a council-manager form of government consisting of a mayor and four council members
elected in an at-large election to become operative on the first Monday in...
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17-13-8
Section 17-13-8 Ballots, stationery, and supplies; pledge printed on ballot; spoiling of ballot.
Separate official ballots and other election stationery and supplies for each political party
shall be printed and furnished for use at each election district or precinct and shall be
of a different color for each of the political parties participating in such primary election.
All ballots for the same political party shall be alike, except as herein otherwise provided,
printed in plain type and upon paper so thick that the printing cannot be distinguished from
the back. Across the top of the ballot shall be printed the party's emblem, if any, and the
words, "Official Primary Election Ballot." Beneath this heading shall be printed
the year in which the election is held and the words "Democratic Party" or "Republican
Party" or other proper party designation. Each group of candidates to be voted on shall
be preceded by the designation of the office for which the candidates seek nomination,...

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17-17-24
Section 17-17-24 Changing ballots, unlawful use of absentee ballots, etc.; investigative assistance;
encouraging voter participation. (a) Any person who willfully changes an absentee voter's
ballot to the extent that it does not reflect the voter's true ballot, any person who willfully
votes more than once by absentee ballot in the same election, any person who willfully votes
for another voter or falsifies absentee ballot applications or verification documents so as
to vote absentee, or any person who solicits, encourages, urges, or otherwise promotes illegal
absentee voting, shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a Class C felony. Any person who willfully
aids any person unlawfully to vote an absentee ballot, any person who knowingly and unlawfully
votes an absentee ballot, and any voter who votes both an absentee and a regular ballot at
any election shall be similarly punished. (b) Upon request by the local district attorney
or the Secretary of State, the Attorney General shall...
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17-11-3.1
Section 17-11-3.1 Qualified voter with permanent disability preventing attendance at polls.
(a) Notwithstanding Sections 17-11-3, 17-11-4, and 17-11-5, a qualified voter who has a permanent
disability preventing his or her attendance at the polls may vote by absentee ballot in accordance
with this section. (b) The Secretary of State shall adopt rules that provide a process for
a voter who has a permanent disability to be placed on an absentee voter list and have a ballot
automatically mailed to him or her before each election. The rules shall include, but not
be limited to, all of the following: (1) An application procedure for permanently disabled
voters to vote by absentee ballot on an on-going basis. The procedure shall require that the
application form be signed and notarized by the disabled voter's primary physician. (2) A
procedure for verifying the identity of a voter and determining that the voter has a permanent
disability preventing his or her attendance at the polls. (3) A...
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17-11-43
Section 17-11-43 Request for overseas ballot. (a) In determining the requirements for a request
for an overseas absentee ballot, the committee and the Secretary of State shall consider including
the following information: (1) The name of the voter requesting the ballot. (2) The legal
Alabama residence of the voter. (3) The date of birth of the voter. (4) One of the following:
a. An APO/FPO or other deliverable overseas address, if the overseas voter requests that the
ballot be mailed. b. A facsimile machine number where return information shall be received,
if the overseas voter requests that the ballot be faxed. If the voter requests facsimile transmission,
his or her signature is also required. c. An electronic mail address, if the overseas voter
requests that the ballot be transmitted pursuant to electronic mail. d. A signed application
for an electronic ballot if the overseas voter requests that the ballot be transmitted or
accessed by other secure electronic means approved by rule...
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45-48-111.05
Section 45-48-111.05 Demand for recanvass. Any candidate in an election shall have the right
to make demand in writing to the body which, under the general provisions of law, now have
charge of and control over ballot boxes, for an order to break the seals of voting machines
for the purpose of recanvassing the vote and the request shall be honored, whereupon all other
articles in the "Act to regulate and control primary elections for the nomination by
political parties of candidates for public office" and in the "Election Code"
shall be followed in making such recanvass and the machine shall be resealed as therein provided.
Such demand in writing shall be made not later than 10 days subsequent to such election. (Acts
1971, No. 1899, p. 3088, § 6.)...
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45-8A-23.002
Section 45-8A-23.002 Call of election by mayor. The mayor or other chief executive officer
of such city shall immediately upon receipt of such certificate from the judge of probate,
by proclamation, submit the question of the adoption of the council-manager form of government
for such city, under this part, at a special election to be held at a time specified in such
proclamation, not less than 40 days and not more than 60 days after the receipt of the certificate
from the judge of probate, unless a general or regular election is to be held within 90 days
after receipt of such certificate, in which event the special election herein provided for
shall be held at the same time as such general or regular election. Should the election not
be called by proclamation within 10 days after receipt of his or her certificate, the judge
of probate shall call such election by order at a time specified therein but not less than
40 days and not more than 60 days after the receipt by the mayor or...
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11-43A-2
Section 11-43A-2 Petition to probate judge for election as to adoption of council-manager form
of government; examination of petition and certification to mayor. The filing of a petition
signed by 10 percent or more of the number of qualified voters who voted in the last general
municipal election held in such municipality, asking that the question of the adoption of
the council-manager form of government for such municipality be submitted to the qualified
voters thereof, with the judge of probate of the county in which such municipality is located,
shall mandatorily require an election to be held as herein provided. Whenever such a petition
purporting to be signed by at least 10 percent of the number of qualified voters who voted
in the last general municipal election held in such municipality shall be presented to such
judge of probate, he shall examine such petition and determine whether or not the same is
signed by at least 10 percent of the number of qualified voters who voted in...
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16-13-164
Section 16-13-164 Ballot and election supplies. The county commission shall provide a sufficient
number of ballots for each voting precinct within said county, and at the top of each ballot
shall be printed the rate of such proposed tax, the time it is to be continued and that the
purpose is for the support of the public schools, and directly underneath in plain type shall
be printed on different lines the words, "For proposed taxation," "Against
proposed taxation," and a place must be left directly to the left of each line thereof,
and the voters favoring the proposed taxation will make a cross mark directly to the left
of the line, "For proposed taxation," and the voter not favoring proposed taxation
will make a cross mark directly to the left of the line "Against proposed taxation."
(School Code 1927, §257; Code 1940, T. 52, §250.)...
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45-8A-23.003
Section 45-8A-23.003 Second election not called within four years. If the council-manager form
of government is not adopted at the special election so called, the question of adopting such
form of government shall not be resubmitted to the voters of such city for adoption within
four years thereafter, and then the question of adopting the form of government may be resubmitted
in the manner above provided. (Acts 1953, No. 404, p. 472, §1.04.)...
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