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11-46-34
Section 11-46-34 Voting booths. For all elections at which paper ballots will be used, the
chief executive officer of the municipality at the expense of the municipality shall provide
at each polling place in all municipalities having a population of over 3,000 inhabitants
a room or covered enclosure and in such room or covered enclosure shall provide booths or
compartments, one booth or compartment for each 100 or fraction thereof over 50 electors registered
in the ward or wards in such municipality for that election, and shall furnish each booth
or compartment with a shelf or table for the convenience of the electors in the preparation
of their ballots. Each booth or compartment shall be so arranged that it will be impossible
for one elector at a shelf or table in one compartment to see an elector at a shelf or table
in another compartment in the act of marking his ballot. Each voting shelf or table shall
be kept supplied with conveniences for marking the ballots. In voting places in...
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11-46-68
Section 11-46-68 Miscellaneous offenses. (a) Any person who shall willfully fail or refuse
to perform or discharge any duty relating to absent voters required of him by this article
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not more than $100.00.
(b) Any person found drunk or intoxicated at or about any polling place during any municipal
election day is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than
$500.00 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county
for not more than six months. (c) Any person who, at a municipal election, interferes with
any elector when inside the polling place or when marking the ballot, or unduly influences
or attempts to unduly influence any elector in the preparation of his ballot must, on conviction,
be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00. (d) Any person who, during or before
a municipal election, willfully removes, tears down, destroys, or defaces any...
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11-46-40
Section 11-46-40 Assistance of disabled electors generally. When paper ballots are used, any
elector applying to vote who shall state under oath to any of the inspectors (which oath may
be administered by any one of the inspectors) that by reason of his inability to write the
English language, or by reason of blindness or the loss of the use of his hand or hands he
is unable to prepare his ballot may have the assistance of any person he may select. In such
case, said elector must remain within the polling place, and the inspector shall send for
the person selected. If the person first selected cannot be found, then such elector may select
another person to assist him. The person so selected shall render said elector all such assistance
in the preparation of his ballot as he may require so that the ballot may be voted for the
candidate of his choice in the manner provided in this article. In cities of more than 3,000
inhabitants, the elector and the person selected to assist him shall...
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11-46-67
Section 11-46-67 Offenses of electors. (a) Any elector who takes or removes or attempts to
take or remove any ballot from the polling place at a municipal election before the close
of the polls or who remains longer than the time allowed by law in the booth or compartment
after being notified his or her time has expired must, on conviction, be fined not less than
ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). (b) Any person who willfully makes
to the inspectors of a municipal election a false declaration asserting an inability to prepare
his or her ballot without assistance must, on conviction, be fined not less than fifty dollars
($50) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500). (c) Any qualified elector at any municipal
election who takes or receives any money or other valuable thing upon the condition that the
same shall be paid at any future time in exchange for the vote of such elector for any particular
candidate or the promise to vote for any particular candidate...
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17-17-21
Section 17-17-21 Disclosing or removing ballot; interfering with or influencing elector; remaining
in booth, etc. Any elector who takes or removes, or attempts to take or remove, any ballot
from the polling place before the close of the polls; or any person who interferes with any
elector when inside the polling place or when marking the ballot, or unduly influences, or
attempts to unduly influence, any elector in the preparation of his or her ballot; or any
elector who remains longer than the time allowed by law in the booth or compartment after
being notified his or her time has expired, shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a violation.
(Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §88.)...
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11-46-42
Section 11-46-42 Number of electors allowed in polling place; time limit, etc., for occupation
of booth. Where paper ballots are used, no more than 10 electors shall be allowed in the polling
place at the same time. In all elections for which voting booths or compartments have been
provided, if all such booths or compartments are occupied and other electors are waiting to
vote, no elector shall occupy a booth or compartment for a longer time than five minutes.
No elector shall be allowed to occupy a booth or compartment already occupied by another nor
to speak or converse with anyone except as provided in this article while in the polling place.
After having voted or declined or failed to vote within five minutes, the elector shall immediately
withdraw from the polling place and go beyond the prohibited distance and shall not enter
the polling place again. (Acts 1961, No. 663, p. 827, §22.)...
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17-9-13
Section 17-9-13 Voting assistance; time allowed to finish voting. (a) Any person who wishes
assistance in voting may receive assistance from any person the voter chooses except the voter's
employer, an agent of the employer, or an officer or agent of the voter's union. The voter
is not required to state a reason for requesting assistance. To obtain assistance, the voter
must specifically request assistance by naming the person from whom assistance is sought and
by signing in the appropriate column of the voters' poll list. The person providing assistance
shall legibly sign in the adjacent column on the same line as the assisted voter's name. By
signing the poll list, the assistant shall certify that he or she is not the voter's employer,
an agent of the employer, or an officer or agent of the voter's union. If the voter is unable
to sign the poll list, the person giving assistance shall write the voter's name in the appropriate
column and then sign his or her own name in the third...
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17-1-2
Section 17-1-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this title, the following terms shall have
the definitions ascribed to them: (1) APPOINTING BOARD. In all elections the appointing board
consists of the judge of probate, circuit clerk, and sheriff of the county. (2) BALLOT. The
term includes paper ballots and electronic ballots. (3) BALLOT CONFIGURATION. The particular
combination and arrangement of offices, candidates, and questions for a precinct or subdivision
thereof. (4) BEAT. Has the same meaning as precinct. (5) BOX. The voting place in a precinct
or subdivision of a precinct for voting purposes. (6) CANVASSING BOARD. In all elections except
primary elections, the canvassing board consists of the judge of probate, circuit clerk, and
sheriff of the county. In primary elections, the county executive committee of the party is
the canvassing board for the primary of the party. (7) CENSUS BUREAU. The Bureau of the Census
of the United States Department of Commerce, or any successor...
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11-46-39
Section 11-46-39 Oath and identification of voters challenged; voting procedure where paper
ballots used. (a) Where paper ballots are used, the inspector, upon the elector's entering
the polling place, shall examine the list of qualified electors furnished by the clerk pursuant
to subsection (a) of Section 11-46-36, and, if it appears from this examination that the person
is a qualified elector of the state authorized to vote at that box, the inspector shall then
give the person one ballot on the stub of which the inspector shall write or shall have already
written his or her name or initials. If the person's name does not appear on the list of qualified
voters for that ward or box, the person may not vote except by provisional ballot. (b) In
cities of more than 3,000 inhabitants, each elector on receiving a ballot shall forthwith
and without leaving the polling place retire alone to one of the booths or compartments provided
for that purpose and there prepare the ballot in the manner...
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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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