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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11-46-27
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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11-44C-92
Section 11-44C-92 Commission form of government. If a majority of the qualified electors voting in the election provided herein choose the court ordered districted commission form of government in accordance with the consent decree entered into by the parties and approved by the court on April 7, 1983, in the case of Bolden vs.City of Mobile, Civil Action No. 75-297, then the provisions of said court ordered districted commission form shall be applicable to said city. The three commissioners elected under said court ordered plan from single member districts shall sit as a board and shall possess and exercise all municipal powers, legislative, executive, and judicial, possessed and exercised by city governing bodies as provided by sections 11-44-70 through 11-44-105, as amended, and other applicable laws, except that all functions, responsibilities and operations of the city shall be under the direction and supervision of the board of commissioners as a whole. All three commissioners...
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17-16-55
Section 17-16-55 Contest of election of judge of circuit or district court - Testimony; heard without jury. The testimony on the contest must be taken by deposition as in civil cases at common law, but no affidavit, other than that of the materiality of the testimony of the witnesses proposed to be examined, shall be required. Either party may, on giving five days' notice, require the examination before the commissioner to be oral and that the witnesses be examined separate and apart from each other. The party against whom the depositions are to be taken must have at least five days' notice of the time and place of taking such depositions and of the name and residence of the commissioner or commissioners proposed. The contest must be heard and determined by the court without the intervention of a jury. (Code 1896, §1694; Code 1907, §468; Code 1923, §558; Code 1940, T. 17, §244; §17-15-28; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §83.)...
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17-7-23
Section 17-7-23 Examination and certification of equipment. It shall be the duty of the committee to ensure the examination and certification of electronic vote counting systems in the following manner: (1) By publicly examining all makes of electronic vote counting systems submitted and certifying whether such systems comply with the requirements of this section. (2) By inviting any vendor or company interested in selling an electronic vote counting system in Alabama to submit such equipment for examination. The vote counting system shall be certified after a satisfactory evaluation and testing has been performed to determine that the equipment meets the requirements of this article and performance and test standards for electronic voting systems issued by the Federal Election Commission. The committee may use certification of the equipment by an authorized independent testing authority, or successor entity, as evidence that the equipment meets the requirements of Section 17-7-21 and...
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45-48-111.04
Section 45-48-111.04 Representative of candidate authorized to observe conduct of election. Any candidate in an election shall have the right to designate one representative to be present at each polling place, and such representative shall have the right to observe the conduct of the election as a watcher at such polling place as provided by law, but shall also have the right to observe and be present at the opening of each voting machine when the totals of such machines are tabulated by the election officials. Such representative shall be appointed as provided by law. (Acts 1971, No. 1899, p. 3088, § 5.)...
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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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11-46-32
Section 11-46-32 Election supplies. (a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipality shall at the expense of the municipality procure and superintend and insure the delivery to the election officers at each polling place within the corporate limits of the municipality of the necessary election supplies and shall also procure and deliver or cause to be delivered to the municipal clerk a sufficient number of the absentee ballots and the envelopes therefor prescribed by general laws and other supplies needed for the handling of absentee ballots in such election in the manner prescribed by general law. In the event the municipal clerk is a candidate in the election, he or she shall immediately upon receipt of the absentee ballots and other supplies deliver the same to the person appointed pursuant to Section 11-46-55 to act in his or her stead. (b) When paper ballots are used, such supplies shall consist of: At least 100 ballots for each 50 registered electors at each...
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11-46-33
Section 11-46-33 Duties of clerk as to voting machines. (a) Whenever voting machines are to be used in any municipal election the municipal clerk shall: (1) Cause the proper ballot labels to be placed on the voting machines; (2) Cause the machines to be placed in proper working order for voting; (3) Examine all voting machines in the presence of authorized watchers for any interested persons before they are sent out to the polling places; (4) See that all the registering counters are set at zero; (5) Lock, in the presence of authorized watchers, all voting machines so that the counting machinery cannot be operated; and (6) Seal each one with a numbered seal, a list of which numbered seals and the number on the protective counters, together with the number of the voting place to which it was sent shall be kept as a permanent record in such clerk's office, open to any citizen. (b) The inspection and sealing of voting machines shall begin not later than 9:00 A.M., of the Monday before any...
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11-46-35
Section 11-46-35 Watchers. (a) Each candidate may name a watcher for every polling place. As used in this subsection, a polling place shall mean a location for ballot boxes or voting machines, regardless of the number thereof. (b) The watcher, upon presentation of his or her appointment in writing and being sworn faithfully to observe the rule of law prescribed for the conduct of elections, shall be permitted to be present at the place where ballots are cast from the time the polls are opened until the ballots are counted and certificates of the result of the election are duly signed by the proper election officers. The function of the watcher is to observe activities at the polling place. The watcher may not disturb voters, attempt to influence voters, campaign, or display or wear any campaign material or buttons while inside any polling place. (c) When paper ballots are used at the election, the watcher shall be permitted to see the ballots as they are called during the count. (d)...
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