**[Requirements for Serving as a Pollworker]{.underline}**

**[Alabama]{.underline}**

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| **[State Registration Requirement]{.underline}**                      |
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| **[(Exceptions may be found in Student Election Assistant             |
| category)]{.underline}**                                              |
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| Must \"appoint from the qualified electors of the respective          |
| precinct.\"                                                           |
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| *Ala. Code § 17-8-1 (Legislation enrolled 4/06, awaiting              |
| gubernatorial approval, anticipated effective 1/07.)(Thomson/West     |
| 2006)*                                                                |
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| For the purpose of election officer eligibility, a "qualified         |
| elector" may be interpreted to mean someone registered to vote in     |
| Alabama.                                                              |
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| *Alabama Attorney General Opinion, 91-00156, (2/1/91); Alabama        |
| Attorney General Opinion, 96-00286 (8/5/96).*                         |
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| **[Age Requirement]{.underline}**                                     |
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| 18 Years.                                                             |
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| *Ala. Const. Art. VIII, §177(a); Ala. Code § 17-3-30 (Legislation     |
| enrolled 4/06, awaiting gubernatorial approval, anticipated effective |
| 1/07.)(Thomson/West 2006)*                                            |
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| **[Residency Place and Term Required for Voter                        |
| Registration]{.underline}**                                           |
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| State and County for the time provided by law.                        |
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| *Ala. Const. Art VIII, §177(a) Ala. Code § 17-3-30 (Legislation       |
| enrolled 4/06, awaiting gubernatorial approval, anticipated effective |
| 1/07.)(Thomson/West 2006)*                                            |
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| **[Residency Requirement for Service (State, County or                |
| Precinct)]{.underline}**                                              |
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| Precinct                                                              |
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| *Ala.Const. Art VIII, §196A; Ala. Code § 17-8-1 (Legislation enrolled |
| 4/06, awaiting gubernatorial approval, anticipated effective          |
| 1/07.)(Thomson/West 2006)*                                            |
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| **[Affiliation with Political Party Requirement]{.underline}**        |
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| **[and Process for Nomination as Poll Worker]{.underline}**           |
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| Affiliation Generally Required. Not later than 45 days before the     |
| election the two political parties which received the highest number  |
| of votes in the state in the preceding election, may provide          |
| appointing board with a list of recommended poll workers from         |
| qualified electors from each voting place. No more than 20 days or    |
| less than 15 days before an election, the appointing board shall use  |
| the lists to appoint, to each voting place, one inspector and at      |
| least three clerks from members of opposing political parties, if     |
| practicable.                                                          |
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| *Ala. Code § 17-8-1; Ala. Code § 17-8-5(Legislation enrolled 4/06,    |
| awaiting gubernatorial approval, anticipated effective                |
| 1/07.)(Thomson/West 2006)*                                            |
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| For primaries, candidate may, at least 25 days before the primary,    |
| present to the county executive committee of his party a list of      |
| election officers desired by him. The county committee shall present  |
| the list to the appointing board which shall use the list, before     |
| their own, for appointing inspectors and clerks, always observing the |
| rules regarding equal representation.                                 |
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| *Ala. Code § 17-16-17 (Thomson/West 2006)*                            |
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| If no lists are furnished, the appointing board shall appoint an      |
| inspector and at least three clerks for each voting place from the    |
| qualified electors of the precinct from members of opposing political |
| parties, if practicable.                                              |
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| *Ala. Code § 17-8-5(Legislation enrolled 4/06, awaiting gubernatorial |
| approval, anticipated effective 1/07.)(Thomson/West 2006)*            |
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| **[Term Requirements]{.underline}**                                   |
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| No Information Available                                              |
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| **[Compensation and Hour Requirements]{.underline}**                  |
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| Entitled to \$50 by the county. For statewide elections, in addition  |
| to the county's payment of \$50, each returning officer and clerk     |
| shall be entitled to supplemental compensation paid by the state to   |
| ensure that the total compensation paid shall be at least \$75 per    |
| day, and each inspector shall be entitled to supplemental             |
| compensation paid by the state in an amount that ensures that the     |
| total compensation of an inspector is at least \$100 per day. Upon    |
| completion of a local election school or being certified as a         |
| qualified poll worker by the probate judge, or both, each clerk,      |
| returning officer, and inspector shall be entitled to receive an      |
| additional \$25 per day in compensation from the state.               |
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| *Ala. Code §§ 17-6-13(1)(a) & (b) (Act 2006-570, effective January 1, |
| 2007, reorganizes Title 17 and may relocate Ala. Code § 17-6-13 to    |
| Ala. Code § 17-8-12); 17-16-10 (Thomson/West 2006)*                   |
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| **[Training, Certification and Oath Requirements]{.underline}**       |
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| Not less than 5 days before election or primary, the authority        |
| charged with holding the election must hold training. The judge of    |
| probate shall notify such election officials of the time and place of |
| the holding of such school of instruction, and shall also publish     |
| notice at least 48 hours before the same is to be held. No election   |
| official shall serve in any election district in which an electronic  |
| voting machine is used, unless he or she shall have received such     |
| instruction within 60 days prior to the election and is fully         |
| qualified to perform the duties in connection with the electronic     |
| voting machine, and has received a certificate from the authorized    |
| instructor to that effect; provided, that this shall not prevent the  |
| appointment of an uninstructed person as an election official to fill |
| a vacancy among the election officials *Ala. Code §17-8-9             |
| (Legislation enrolled 4/06, awaiting gubernatorial approval,          |
| anticipated effective 1/07.)(Thomson/West 2006)*                      |
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| Oath Required                                                         |
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| *Ala. Code § 17-6-10 (Thomson/West 2006)*                             |
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| **[Elected Public Officials Prohibited]{.underline}**                 |
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| No officer or employee of any city or town shall act in the capacity  |
| of election officer, returning officer, marker or watcher, or as a    |
| deputy sheriff in conducting any town or city election.               |
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| *Ala. Code § 17-6-15 (Thomson/West 2006)*                             |
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| **[Candidates Prohibited]{.underline}**                               |
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| Candidates and members of a candidate\'s immediate family to the      |
| second degree of kinship by affinity or consanguinity and any member  |
| of a candidate\'s principal campaign committee are ineligible for     |
| appointment                                                           |
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| *Ala. Code § 17-8-1(a) (Thomson/West 2006)*                           |
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| **[The Effect of Felon Status on Participation]{.underline}**         |
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| All felons without restored rights are prohibited.                    |
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| *Ala.Const. Art. VIII, § 177(b); Ala. Code § 17-3-31(Legislation      |
| enrolled 4/06, awaiting gubernatorial approval, anticipated effective |
| 1/07.); Ala. Code § 15-22-36.1 (Thomson/West 2006)*                   |
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| **[The Effect of Mental Incapacitation on                             |
| Participation]{.underline}**                                          |
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| Prohibited if mentally incompetent, until restoration of civil and    |
| political rights or removal of disability.                            |
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| *Ala.Const. Art. VIII, § 177 (Thomson/West 2006)*                     |
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| **[English Fluency and Literacy Requirement]{.underline}**            |
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| **[Good Reputation Requirement]{.underline}**                         |
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| **[Alternative Positions with Different Requirements]{.underline}**   |
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| A county may employ electronic voting specialists who serve as        |
| trouble shooters during the election. Must be trained in the          |
| operation of electronic voting equipment and these procedures. May    |
| assist in any precinct in the county, but do not assume the title or  |
| authority of the regular poll workers assigned to a precinct.         |
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| *Ala. Admin. Code r. 307-x-1-.07(Thomson/West 2006)*                  |
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| **[Student Election Assistant Statute]{.underline}**                  |
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| No Information Available                                              |
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