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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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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45-31-110.05
Section 45-31-110.05 Inspector, chief clerk, and assistant clerks; duties. (a) For each voting
center where only one voting machine is to be used, the election officials shall consist of
an inspector, a chief clerk, and two assistant clerks. For each voting center where more than
one voting machine is to be used there shall be appointed one chief inspector who shall supervise
the conduct of the other officials and the operation of the voting center, one inspector and
one chief clerk, and for each voting machine to be used at such center there shall be appointed
two assistant clerks. For each voting center where more than four voting machines are to be
used there may be appointed two additional assistant clerks for each group of four voting
machines or fraction thereof. (b) The election officers provided for herein shall be appointed
by the same officers that appoint other election officers as provided for in Section 17-13-48.
They shall perform all duties imposed on election officers...
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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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11-46-34
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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11-46-32
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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11-46-36
Section 11-46-36 Preparation, certification, filing, and publication of lists of qualified
regular voters. (a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of the city or town shall cause
to be made a list of the qualified voters who reside within the corporate limits of such city
or town and who are registered to vote regular ballots, dividing the same into separate alphabetical
lists of the qualified voters of each ward where such city or town has been divided into wards
and all qualified voters thereof vote at one box or voting machine, or dividing such list
into separate alphabetical lists of voters authorized to vote at each respective box or voting
machine if the list of qualified voters has been divided alphabetically and each alphabetical
group assigned a box or machine at which to vote. He or she shall have such lists compared
with the official list of electors qualified to vote during the current year on file in the
probate office of the county in which the municipality is...
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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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45-48-111.01
Section 45-48-111.01 Voting by electors; voting machines numbered. No elector shall vote at
any voting place other than the voting place of which he or she is a qualified elector, but
any elector whose name appears on the qualified voter's list at a voting place may vote on
any voting machine maintained at such voting place, upon presentation of the identification
card issued to him or her by an election officer serving at such voting place and upon signing
the poll list maintained at the voting machine at which he or she proposes to vote. The voting
machines at any such voting place shall be numbered consecutively beginning with number 1,
and each machine shall display a card indicating the number of that machine. The numbers on
such cards shall be clearly visible from the registration table. (Acts 1971, No. 1899, p.
3088, § 2.)...
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11-46-29
Section 11-46-29 Appointment of election officers upon failure of others to attend polls. On
the failure of any person who has been duly appointed an election officer to attend the polls
at the hour prescribed for his attendance, such of the election officers appointed for that
voting box or machine as are present may appoint such election officers as are needed to complete
the number of election officials for the box or machine. All persons so appointed shall be
qualified electors who are entitled to vote at that polling place. Should all the appointed
election officers fail to be present at a polling place by the hour prescribed on election
day, then any three qualified electors who are entitled by law to vote at that polling place
at the election then to be held may open the polls, act as three of the election officers
for such box or machine and appoint such other officers as are required to fill the place
of those absent; provided, that every person so appointed shall be a...
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