11-46-27
Section 11-46-27 Appointment, compensation, etc., of election officers. (a) The municipal governing
body or a majority of them must, not less than 15 days before the holding of any municipal
election, appoint from the qualified electors of the respective wards or voting districts
officers to hold the election as follows: Where paper ballots are used, one returning officer
for each ward and three inspectors and two clerks for each box at each voting place and, where
voting machines are used, an inspector, a chief clerk, and a first and second assistant clerk
for each voting machine; except that in the event voting centers or voting places are established,
then the requirements of Section 11-46-24 shall control the number of election officials.
In any Class 6, Class 7, or Class 8 municipality, election officials must reside within the
municipality and may serve at any polling place within the municipality. An election official
appointed to serve in a polling place other than where he or...
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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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45-4-111
Section 45-4-111 Electronic voting system authorized; requirements for use. (a) As used in
this section: (1) "Automatic tabulating equipment" shall mean apparatus which automatically
examines and counts votes recorded on paper ballots or ballot cards and tabulates the results.
(2) "Paper ballot" shall mean a printed paper ballot which conforms in layout and
format to the electronic voting system in use. (3) "Ballot card" shall mean a tabulating
card on which votes may be recorded. (4) "Ballot label" shall mean the cards, papers,
booklet, pages, or other material which contain the names of offices and candidates and statements
of measures to be voted on and which are used in conjunction with ballot cards. (5) "Ballot"
shall mean ballot cards or paper ballots. (6) "Counting center" shall mean one or
more locations selected and designated by the county commission or the municipal governing
body, as the case may be, for the automatic counting of ballots in the election. (7) "Electronic...

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11-81-55
Section 11-81-55 Conduct of election generally. The governing body of any municipality in which
an election is held under this article shall designate the number and location of voting places
and shall appoint three managers, two clerks, and one returning officer for each voting place
in such municipality to conduct said election, and the mayor or other chief executive shall
notify the managers, clerks, and returning officers of their appointment and shall deliver
the box and ballots to the managers at the several voting places in the municipality; provided,
that if voting machines are to be used at said election, then the election officials therefor
shall be appointed and the election shall be conducted as is prescribed in the applicable
provisions of Sections 17-9-1 through 17-9-41, inclusive, with amendments thereto or any other
laws governing the use of voting machines at elections for such municipality. (Acts 1927,
No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §279; Acts 1953, No. 851, p....
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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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11-46-25
Section 11-46-25 Ballots; statements of candidacy; withdrawal of candidacy. (a) In all municipal
elections on any subject which may be submitted by law to a vote of the people of the municipality
and for any municipal officers, if paper ballots are used, the voting shall be by official
ballot printed and distributed as provided in subsections (c) and (d), and no ballot shall
be received or counted in any election unless it is provided as prescribed by law. (b) There
shall be but one form of ballot for all the candidates for municipal office and every ballot
provided for use at any polling place in a municipal election shall contain the names of all
candidates who have properly qualified and have not withdrawn, as provided in subsection (g),
together with the title of the office for which they are candidates. (c) All ballots shall
be printed in black ink on clear book paper. At the bottom of each ballot and at a point an
equal distance from the sides thereof there shall be printed a...
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11-65-5
Section 11-65-5 Composition of commission; terms; qualifications; removal from office. (a)
Every commission shall have five members, which shall constitute its governing body. All powers
of a commission shall be exercised by its members or pursuant to their authorization. The
mayor or other chief executive officer of the sponsoring municipality and the president or
other designated presiding officer of the county commission of the host county shall each
serve as a member ex officio, unless such official exercises his or her right, as provided
in subsection (b), to appoint a fixed-term member to serve in lieu of such official. The service
of each such official as a member shall begin with the beginning of his or her tenure in such
office and shall end with the ending of such tenure or the appointment by such official of
a fixed-term member to serve in lieu of his or her ex officio service. The other three members
shall be appointed in the manner hereinafter prescribed as soon as may be...
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11-42-2
Section 11-42-2 Annexation election and proceedings generally; proceedings where parties consent
to annexation. Whenever the council shall pass a resolution to the effect that the public
health or public good requires that certain territory (described in the resolution) shall
be brought within the limits of the city or town: (1) It shall be the duty of the mayor to
certify a copy of such resolution to the judge of probate of the county in which the land
proposed to be annexed is situated, and said certified resolution shall have attached thereto
a plat or map of said territory, which certified resolution and plat or map shall be filed
by the judge of probate. (2) Except as provided in subdivision (9) of this section, the judge
of probate shall, not less than 10 nor more than 15 days from the date of the filing of such
resolution, make and enter an order upon the minutes of said court, directing and ordering
an election to be held by the qualified electors residing within the territory...
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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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45-8A-110
Section 45-8A-110 Annexation based on resolution of public health or public good; elections.
(a) Whenever the council of the City of Oxford shall pass a resolution to the effect that
the public health or public good requires that certain territory (described in the resolution)
shall be brought within the limits of the City of Oxford: (1) It shall be the duty of the
mayor to certify a copy of such resolution to the Judge of Probate of Calhoun County and the
certified resolution shall have attached thereto a plat or map of the territory proposed to
be annexed, which certified resolution and plat or map shall be filed by the judge of probate.
(2) Within 10 days from the date of the filing of such resolution, the judge of probate must
make and enter an order upon the minutes of the court, directing and ordering an election
to be held by the qualified electors residing within the territory described, not less than
20 days nor more than 40 days from the date of the making of the order. The...
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