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17-5-2
Section 17-5-2 Definitions. (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) CANDIDATE. An individual who has done any of the following: a.
Taken the action necessary under the laws of the state to qualify himself or herself for nomination
or for election to any state office or local office or in the case of an independent seeking
ballot access, on the date when he or she files a petition with the judge of probate in the
case of county offices, with the appropriate qualifying municipal official in the case of
municipal offices, or the Secretary of State in all other cases. b. Received contributions
or made expenditures in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or given his or her consent
for any other person or persons to receive contributions or make expenditures in excess of
one thousand dollars ($1,000), with a view to bringing about his or her nomination or election
to any state office or local office. (2) COMMISSION. The State Ethics...
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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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17-8-1
Section 17-8-1 Appointment of election officials; duties. (a) The appointing board, or a majority
of them acting as an appointing board, not more than 20 nor less than 15 days before the holding
of any election in their county, shall appoint from the qualified electors of the respective
precinct, necessary precinct election officials, which shall include at least one inspector,
to act at each voting place in each precinct. The appointing board may appoint the number
of precinct election officials necessary for each precinct, provided that, absent consent
of the county commission, the total number of precinct election officials appointed in a county
shall not exceed the total number of precinct election officials who were paid by the county
for the general election held November 2004. In the event that the number of precincts or
voting places utilized in an election within a county is increased or decreased, the total
number of officials who may be appointed without consent of the...
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17-11-49
Section 17-11-49 Witnessing or notarization of absentee ballots. (a) The Secretary of State
is granted authority to adopt requirements related to witnessing or notarization of absentee
ballots, voter identification, candidate qualifying, and ballot access procedures, ballot
printing, and the application process for absentee balloting in elections for federal, state,
county, and municipal offices and constitutional amendments and other referenda to comply
with federal law. (b) The Secretary of State is authorized to extend the deadline for receiving,
processing, and counting absentee ballots if absentee ballots are transmitted to qualified
absentee voters less than the minimum number of days prior to an election as required by federal
law. Absentee election officials utilized for the processing and counting of absentee ballots
pursuant to this section shall be appointed in the manner prescribed in Section 17-11-11,
and compensated as provided in Section 17-8-12. (Act 2011-619, p. 1417,...
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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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17-7-29
Section 17-7-29 Secretary of State may provide for orderly acceptance of counties requesting
to participate; reimbursement. After the establishment of the uniform system of electronic
voting through the implementation of the pilot project, the Secretary of State may provide
for the orderly acceptance of counties requesting to participate in the state uniform system.
The Secretary of State may establish a list of counties requesting to participate in the state
uniform system based on the order of receipt of the resolution of a county governing body.
After the Secretary of State has accepted a county in the state uniform system, a county may
be eligible for reimbursement of 50 percent of the costs of a lease purchase agreement or
contract of not more than eight years in length to purchase an electronic voting system established
by the pilot project. A county may be eligible for reimbursement only after the receipt of
a voucher from the county governing body with a copy of a lease...
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11-46-31
Section 11-46-31 Exhibition of voting machines for voter instruction and information; diagrams
furnished with voting machines. During the 30 days next preceding an election at which voting
machines will be used, the municipal governing body shall place on public exhibition in public
places and at times as it may deem most suitable for the information and instruction of the
voters one or more voting machines, containing the ballot labels and showing the offices and
questions to be voted upon and, so far as practicable, the names and arrangements of the candidates
for office. The machines will be under the charge and care of a person competent as custodian
and instructor. No voting machine which is to be assigned for use in an election shall be
used for public exhibition and instruction after having been prepared and sealed for the election.
This requirement shall not apply in any municipality which will use a vote tabulator that
requires voters to fill out a card or paper ballot that...
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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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11-46-51
Section 11-46-51 Instruction of voters in use of machines; oath, etc., of disabled voters;
assistance of voters. (a) The election officers shall, with the aid of the diagrams authorized
by this article and the mechanically operated model, instruct each voter before he enters
the voting machine booth regarding the operation of the machine and shall give the voter opportunity
personally to operate the model. No voter shall be permitted to receive any assistance in
voting at any election, unless he shall first state in writing upon printed forms supplied
for that purpose and under oath or affirmation, which shall be administered to him by the
inspector, that he is blind or that he cannot read the names on the voting machines or that,
by reason of physical disability, he is unable to see the machine or prepare it for voting
or to enter the voting machine booth without assistance. The voter shall state the specific
physical disability which requires him to receive assistance. Thereupon the...
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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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