Ala. Code § 17-16-60 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 16 / Section 17-16-60
Section 17-16-60 Contest Not Abated by Death of Contestant
Status: in_force

In all contests of elections, such contests are not abated by the death of the party commencing them before final judgment, if any qualified elector appears in court and substitutes as a contestant and gives good and sufficient security for the costs which have accrued or may accrue on the contest. But if no qualified elector appears and proposes to substitute as the party contesting, the contest abates on the death of the contesting party, and judgment must be rendered against the sureties for the costs of the contest, which must be collected by execution in the name of the party whose election was contested. In all cases the person whose election is contested, if the successful party in such contest, is entitled to judgment for the cost thereof against the party contesting and the sureties, for which execution may issue returnable to the court of probate or to the circuit court, as the case may be.
Ala. Code § 17-3-59 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 3 / Section 17-3-59
Section 17-3-59 Electors Temporarily Out of the County May Register
Status: in_force

The following persons shall be entitled to register to vote by mail if they possess the qualifications of an elector and are not disqualified from voting under the Constitution and laws of Alabama: Members of the Armed Forces of the United States, persons employed outside the United States, persons absent because of attendance at institutions of higher learning and the spouses and children of such persons. Such persons shall be entitled to register by mail only in the counties where they were residents prior to entering the status which makes them eligible for such registration.

An application for absentee registration shall be in writing and shall be filed with the board of registrars of the county in which the elector resides. The board shall furnish the applicant a written application in the same form as that provided other applicants and any additional application deemed necessary to determine eligibility to register, which application shall be answered by the applicant without assistance and shall be verified before a commissioned officer of the Armed Forces of the United States or any person authorized to administer oaths and take affidavits. Such application shall be filed with the records of the board. The board may take other testimony respecting the applicant and the truthfulness of any information furnished by the applicant. Any additional testimony so taken shall be reduced to writing and shall be sworn to by the witness before a member or clerk of the board or anyone authorized to administer oaths.
Ala. Code § 17-17-21 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-17-21
Section 17-17-21 Disclosing or Removing Ballot; Interfering with or Influencing Elector; Remaining in Booth, Etc
Status: in_force

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.
Ala. Code § 17-14-11 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 14 / Section 17-14-11
Section 17-14-11 United States Senators
Status: in_force

At the general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2008, and each six years thereafter, a senator of and from the State of Alabama in the Senate of the United States shall be elected by the people for a term of six years, beginning on the third day of January next after the election. At the general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2010, and every six years thereafter, a senator of and from the State of Alabama in the Senate of the United States shall be elected by the people for a term of six years, beginning on the third day of January next after the election.
Ala. Code § 17-17-11 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-17-11
Section 17-17-11 Failure of Inspector or Clerk to Attend Election
Status: in_force

Any inspector or clerk appointed by the county appointing board who fails to attend an election without a lawful excuse shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a violation.
Ala. Code § 17-16-5 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 16 / Section 17-16-5
Section 17-16-5 Reimbursing Counties for Election Expenses - Constitutional Amendments in General
Status: in_force

Except as provided in Section 17-8-12, the State of Alabama shall reimburse a county for one half of all sums expended by the county in payment of expenses incurred in holding and conducting an election at which both amendments to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 affecting one or more counties or subdivisions thereof and amendments affecting the State of Alabama as a whole are voted upon.
Ala. Code § 17-13-45 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 13 / Section 17-13-45
Section 17-13-45 Provision for Election of Members of State Executive Committees
Status: in_force

The state or county executive committee of any political party may, by a majority vote of the committee, require that members of the committee be elected by the qualified electors of such political party. If such committee adopts an appropriate resolution requiring that such members be so elected, such election shall be held on the same ballot as the gubernatorial primary election. When members of county or state executive committees are to be elected in a primary, their declarations of candidacy shall be filed in the same manner and within the same time as candidates for nomination for public office.
Ala. Code § 17-13-76 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 13 / Section 17-13-76
Section 17-13-76 Witnesses - Oaths; Summoning Witnesses; Expenses
Status: in_force

The chair of any committee or subcommittee before which may be pending any contest as herein provided may administer oaths to witnesses in such contests and summon persons and officers to be and appear before such committee or subcommittee. The person who desires the summoning of any witnesses, at the time he or she makes request of the chair of such committee to summon any witness, shall deposit with the chair of such committee, in cash, sufficient money to pay the cost of summoning any such witness and also to pay such witness the sum of one dollar ($1) per day while attending upon such committee and the sum of three cents ($.03) per mile each way in coming and returning from attendance upon such committee. All witnesses summoned to testify in any contest pending before any committee shall be paid at the rate of one dollar ($1) per day and three cents ($.03) per mile. Any party to the contest may file with the chair an instrument in writing, signed by any such desired witness, waiving the right to claim such per diem and mileage, in which event the chair shall not require a deposit for the payment of such witness fees, but only for the expense of summoning him or her.
Ala. Code § 17-16-4 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 16 / Section 17-16-4
Section 17-16-4 Reimbursing Counties for Election Expenses - Only Federal or State Offices
Status: in_force

The State of Alabama shall reimburse a county for all sums expended by the county in payment of expenses as provided for in Sections 17-16-2 and 17-16-2.1 and incurred in holding and conducting an election in which only candidates for federal or state offices are nominated or federal or state officials are elected. For the purposes of this section, a candidate for federal or state office includes a candidate seeking election as a district representative for a federal or state office appearing on the ballot in any portion of a county.
Ala. Code § 17-13-73 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 13 / Section 17-13-73
Section 17-13-73 Certification of Candidate in Case of Contest
Status: in_force

When a contest of a nomination is instituted or where a special primary to nominate is held as provided for in this chapter, the declared nominee for such office shall not be certified until after termination of the contest filed in the time herein prescribed.
Ala. Code § 17-7-11 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 7 / Section 17-7-11
Section 17-7-11 Proclaiming Polls Open
Status: in_force

THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED AND RENUMBERED AS SECTION 17-9-9 BY ACT 2006-570.
Ala. Code § 17-11-45 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 11 / Section 17-11-45
Section 17-11-45 Procedudre for Return of Voted Ballot
Status: in_force

The committee and the Secretary of State shall determine the procedures whereby an overseas voter may return a voted ballot.
Ala. Code § 17-8-10 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 8 / Section 17-8-10
Section 17-8-10 Returning Officer
Status: in_force

The sheriff of each county or the person discharging the duties of such office is the returning officer for the county.

The inspector for each voting place is charged with the duty of returning the ballots and sealed election materials from the voting place to the county returning officer.
Ala. Code § 17-16-52 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 16 / Section 17-16-52
Section 17-16-52 Contest of Senator or Representative in Legislature - Depositions Returned
Status: in_force

The commissioner must carefully envelop the depositions taken, with the commission attached, writing his or her name across the sealing of the envelope and endorsing thereon the names of the witnesses and the title and subject matter of the contest, and direct the envelope to the clerk issuing the commission, and must, within five days after taking the deposition, file the same with the clerk, or transmit the same by mail through the nearest post office. The clerk, within five days after the taking of testimony has been finished and the depositions received in his or her office, must make and certify under the seal of the court a true and correct copy of the statement of the grounds of contest and of return of service thereon, and must enclose the same with the depositions so taken and filed in his or her office, and must securely envelop the same, endorsing thereon the title and subject matter of the contest, and direct the package to the presiding officer of that branch of the Legislature before which the contest is to be tried, at the seat of government and deposit the same, postage paid, in the nearest post office.
Ala. Code § 17-5-11 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 5 / Section 17-5-11
Section 17-5-11 Duties of Secretary of State
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State shall have the following duties:

(1) To accept and file all reports and statements, including amendments, required by this chapter to be filed with the Secretary of State and to accept any information voluntarily supplied that exceeds the requirements of this chapter.

(2) To make each statement and report filed by any principal campaign committee or political action committee or elected official available for public inspection and copying during regular office hours, any copying to be at the expense of the person requesting copies; except that any information copied from the reports or statements may not be sold or used by any political party, principal campaign committee, or political action committee for the purposes of soliciting contributions or for commercial purposes, without the express written permission of the candidate or the committee reporting the information.

(3) To furnish any forms to be used in complying with this chapter. The expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in furnishing forms, accepting statements and reports, filing statements and reports, and making statements and reports available to the public shall be paid from monies designated to the distribution of public documents.
Ala. Code § 17-14-10 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 14 / Section 17-14-10
Section 17-14-10 When Presidential Electors and Members of Congress Elected
Status: in_force

Electors for President and Vice President of the United States shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2008, and every fourth year thereafter. A member of Congress from each congressional district shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2006, and every second year thereafter.
Ala. Code § 17-6-31 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 6 / Section 17-6-31
Section 17-6-31 Party Emblem - Prohibited Designs
Status: in_force

The coat of arms or seal of any state or the United States, or the national flag, or the likeness of any person, living or dead, or religious emblem or symbol of any secret or fraternal organization or society, or the symbol of any industrial organization or a representation of a coin or the currency of the United States shall not be used as an emblem.
Ala. Code § 17-17-5 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-17-5
Section 17-17-5 Improper Use of State Property, Time, Etc., for Political Activities
Status: in_force

(a) No person in the employment of the State of Alabama, a county, a city, a local school board, or any other governmental agency, whether classified or unclassified, shall use any state, county, city, local school board, or other governmental agency funds, property, or time, for any political activities.

(b)(1) No person in the employment of the State of Alabama, a county, a city, a local school board, or any other governmental agency may arrange by salary deduction or otherwise for any payments to a political action committee or arrange by salary deduction or otherwise for any payments for the dues of any person so employed to a membership organization which uses any portion of the dues for political activity. For purposes of this subsection only, political activity shall be limited to all of the following:

a. Making contributions to or contracting with any entity which engages in any form of political communication, including communications which mention the name of a political candidate.

b. Engaging in or paying for public opinion polling.

c. Engaging in or paying for any form of political communication, including communications which mention the name of a political candidate.

d. Engaging in or paying for any type of political advertising in any medium.

e. Phone calling for any political purpose.

f. Distributing political literature of any type.

g. Providing any type of in-kind help or support to or for a political candidate.

(2) Any organization that requests the State of Alabama, a county, a city, a local school board, or any other governmental agency to arrange by salary deduction or otherwise for the collection of membership dues from persons employed by the State of Alabama, a county, a city, a local school board, or any other governmental agency shall certify to the appropriate governmental entity that none of the membership dues will be used for political activity. Thereafter, at the conclusion of each calendar year, each organization that has arranged for the collection of its membership dues from persons employed by the State of Alabama, a county, a city, a local school board, or any other governmental agency shall provide the appropriate governmental entity a detailed breakdown of the expenditure of the membership dues of persons employed by the State of Alabama, a county, a city, a local school board, or any other governmental agency and collected by the governmental entity. Any organization that fails to provide the required certifications, that reports any expenditures for political activity, or that files false information about political activity in any of its reports shall be permanently barred from arranging for the collection of its membership dues by any governmental entity. The Examiners of Public Accounts shall annually review a sample of at least 10 percent of the certifications filed with each governmental entity and report its findings to the appropriate governmental entity.

(c) Any person who is in the employment of the State of Alabama, a county, a city, a local school board, the State Board of Education or any other governmental agency, shall be on approved leave to engage in political action or the person shall be on personal time before or after work and on holidays. It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee to solicit any type of political campaign contributions from other employees who work for the officer or employee in a subordinate capacity. It shall also be unlawful for any officer or employee to coerce or attempt to coerce any subordinate employee to work in any capacity in any political campaign or cause. Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of the crime of trading in public office and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined or sentenced, or both, as provided by Section 13A-10-63.
Ala. Code § 17-14-32 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 14 / Section 17-14-32
Section 17-14-32 Names on Ballots; Vote for Candidate Counted as Vote for Designated Electors
Status: in_force

The names of all candidates for President and Vice President who are nominated as provided in this chapter shall be printed on the official ballots under the emblem of their respective political parties, as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Alabama. The names of the electors of the candidates for President and Vice President shall not be printed upon the ballots. A vote for a candidate for President or Vice President shall be counted as a vote for the electors of the political party or independent body by which such candidates were named, as listed on the certificate of nomination or nominating petition.
Ala. Code § 17-2-3 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 2 / Section 17-2-3
Section 17-2-3 Establishment of Complaint Review Procedures
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State, by administrative rule, shall establish procedures for the review of complaints regarding the administration of Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002. These procedures shall meet the following requirements:

(1) Any person who believes there has been a violation of Title III may file a complaint.

(2) Any complaint filed shall be in writing and notarized, and signed and sworn by the complaining person.

(3) The Secretary of State may consolidate complaints.

(4) At the request of the complainant, there shall be a hearing on the record.

(5) If it is determined that there has been a violation of Title III, the appropriate remedy shall be provided.

(6) If it is determined that there has not been a violation of Title III, the complaint shall be dismissed, and the results of the procedures shall be published.

(7) After a complaint is filed, a final determination shall be made within 90 days.

(8) If the 90-day deadline is not met, the complaint shall be resolved within 60 days under alternative dispute resolution.
Ala. Code § 17-4-8 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 4 / Section 17-4-8
Section 17-4-8 Electors to Reidentify Themselves; Notice of Reidentification; When Eligible by Mail
Status: in_force

Each voter whose name is to be removed shall reidentify himself or herself by appearing in person before a registrar, or by appearing before the judge of probate, or either of the clerks in the office of the judge of probate, or through his or her representative before the board of registrars in regular session except that the following persons shall be entitled to reidentify by mail if they possess the qualifications of an elector and are not disqualified from voting under the constitution and laws of Alabama: Members of the Armed Forces of the United States, persons employed outside the United States, persons absent because of attendance at an institution of higher learning, and the spouses and children of such persons. The board of registrars shall notify such persons who are eligible for reidentification by mail as to how they can reidentify themselves. Electors eligible to reidentify by mail shall have their eligibility verified before a commissioned officer of the Armed Forces of the United States, or any person authorized to administer oaths and take affidavits, or before two witnesses who are 18 years old or older.
Ala. Code § 17-12-15 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 12 / Section 17-12-15
Section 17-12-15 Time and Manner of Canvassing
Status: in_force

On the second Friday next after the election, at the hour of 12:00 noon, the sheriff, in person or by deputy, and the judge of probate and the clerk of the circuit court shall assemble at the courthouse; and if there is no such judge or clerk, or if either of them fails to attend, or if either of them is interested by reason of having been a candidate at such election, his or her place must be supplied by a respectable elector of the county, appointed by the board hereinbefore provided for the appointing of the inspectors in the various voting places for the election, at the time of appointing the election inspectors, and if the appointing board fails to provide for such member or members, or if any member or members as herein provided should fail to attend at the time and place herein mentioned, the sheriff shall supply such deficiency by a respectable elector of the county; and if all such officers are of the same political party, then the sheriff must summon three reputable electors of the county, who are members of the opposite political party who are qualified electors, to attend at such time and place; and, in the presence of such other persons as choose to attend, the board shall make a correct statement from the returns of the votes from the several voting places of the county of the whole number of votes given therein for each officer, and the person to whom such votes were given.
Ala. Code § 17-17-37 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-17-37
Section 17-17-37 Illegal Voting at Municipal Elections
Status: in_force

Any person who falsely impersonates another and thereby or otherwise fraudulently casts a vote to which he or she is not entitled, or having voted at a municipal election votes a second time at the same election, whether in the same precinct or another, or having once obtained registration in any precinct, shall register a second time, or attempt to obtain a second registration, whether in the same or another name, or whether in the same or another ward, or shall aid or assist another not so entitled, knowing him or her not to be so entitled, to vote or to obtain registration as a voter, shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a Class C felony.
Ala. Code § 17-5-15 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 5 / Section 17-5-15
Section 17-5-15 Contributions by One Person in Name of Another; Contributions Between Political Action Committees, Etc
Status: in_force

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, acting for himself or herself or on behalf of any entity, to make a contribution in the name of another person or entity, or knowingly permit his or her name, or the entity’s name, to be used to effect such a contribution made by one person or entity in the name of another person or entity, or for any candidate, principal campaign committee, or political action committee to knowingly accept a contribution made by one person or entity in the name of another person or entity; provided, however, that nothing in this chapter prohibits any person from soliciting and receiving contributions from other persons for the purpose of making expenditures to a candidate, political campaign committee, political action committee, or elected state or local official required to file reports pursuant to Section 17-5-8.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any political action committee or tax exempt political organization under 26 U.S.C. § 527, including a principal campaign committee, or any person authorized to make an expenditure on behalf of such political action committee or 527 organization, to make a contribution, expenditure, or any other transfer of funds to any other political action committee or 527 organization. It shall be unlawful for any principal campaign committee or any person authorized to make an expenditure on behalf of such principal campaign committee to make a contribution, expenditure, or other transfer of funds to any other principal campaign committee, except where the contribution, expenditure, or any other transfer of funds is made from a principal campaign committee to another principal campaign committee on behalf of the same person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a political action committee that is not a principal campaign committee may make contributions, expenditures, or other transfers of funds to a principal campaign committee; and a separate segregated fund established by a corporation under federal law, if the fund does not receive any contributions from within this state other than contributions from its employees and directors, is not restricted by this subsection in the amount it may transfer to a political action committee established under the provisions of Section 17-5-14.1 by the same or an affiliated corporation.
Ala. Code § 17-6-6 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 6 / Section 17-6-6
Section 17-6-6 Adjustment of Precinct Configuration, Boundaries, Etc
Status: in_force

(a) The county governing body shall have sole authority to change the configuration, boundaries, or designation of an election precinct. Any change so determined shall be adopted by resolution of the county governing body.

(b) A county governing body shall only change a precinct by dividing the precinct into two or more precincts except when in order to make it more convenient for voters to vote, or to facilitate the administration of the election process, or to accomplish reapportionment, it becomes necessary to consolidate all or part of a precinct with adjacent precincts, a part or parts may be consolidated.

(c) Except as may be provided further by local election laws or by the electronic vote counting statutes, whenever at any general or primary election it is anticipated over 2,400 votes will be cast on an electronic voting machine , the county governing body shall adjust the boundary lines of the election precincts or shall authorize the judge of probate to separate the list of qualified registered voters in such precinct into alphabetical groups so as to provide one electronic voting machine for every 2,400 votes or fraction thereof cast and may divide or consolidate any number of precincts and resubdivide the same in order that not more than 2,400 votes shall be cast on a single electronic voting machine and voters are authorized to vote at only one place.

(d) In changing any precinct boundary, the county governing body shall comply with the requirements of Section 17-6-2.

(e) Within 30 days after the adoption of any resolution as provided in this section, the county governing body shall send to the Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment a certified copy of the resolution and a copy of a map showing the new precinct boundaries together with a written description of such boundaries.
Ala. Code § 17-7-15 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 7 / Section 17-7-15
Section 17-7-15 Voter to Sign Name on Poll List; Exceptions
Status: in_force

THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED AND RENUMBERED AS SECTIONS 17-17-15 AND 17-9-11 BY ACT 2006-570.
Ala. Code § 17-11-4 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 11 / Section 17-11-4
Section 17-11-4 Form and Contents of Application; Submission of Application
Status: in_force

(a) The application required in Section 17-11-3 shall be in a form prescribed and designed by the Secretary of State and shall be used throughout the state. The application form shall contain and require all of the following:

(1) That the applicant submit sufficient information to identify the applicant.

(2) The applicant’s name, residence address, and such other information as necessary to verify that the applicant is a registered voter.

(3) A list of all felonies of moral turpitude, as provided in Section 17-3-30.1, and a requirement that the applicant declare that he or she is not barred from voting because of a disqualifying felony conviction or, if the applicant was convicted of a disqualifying felony, that the applicant’s right to vote has been restored.

(4) An explanation of penalties for violations of this section.

(b)(1) Any applicant may receive assistance in filling out the application as he or she desires, but each application shall be manually signed by the applicant, under penalty of perjury, and if he or she signs by mark, the application shall also include the name of the witness and the witness’s signature.

(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly distribute an absentee ballot application to a voter which is prefilled with the voter’s name or any other information required on the application form.

(c)(1) Completed applications may be submitted to the absentee election manager in any of the following ways, as further provided by rule of the Secretary of State:

a. The applicant delivering the application in person.

b. The applicant mailing the application by U.S. mail.

c. The applicant sending the application by commercial carrier.

(2) Except in situations governed by Section 17-11-3(f), it shall be unlawful for an individual to submit a completed absentee ballot application to the absentee election manager other than his or her own application, except that an application for a voter who requires emergency treatment by a licensed physician within five days before an election pursuant to Section 17-11-3 may be submitted to the absentee election manager by an individual designated by the applicant.

(d)(1) Except in situations governed by Section 17-11-3(f), it shall be unlawful for a third party to knowingly receive a payment or gift for distributing, ordering, requesting, collecting, completing, prefilling, obtaining, or delivering a voter’s absentee ballot application. Any person who violates this subdivision shall be guilty of a Class C felony.

(2) Except in situations governed by Section 17-11-3(f), it shall be unlawful for a person to knowingly pay or provide a gift to a third party to distribute, order, request, collect, prefill, complete, obtain, or deliver a voter’s absentee ballot application. Any person who violates this subdivision shall be guilty of a Class B felony.

(e) Any voter who requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to read or write may be given assistance by an individual of the voter’s choice, other than the voter’s employer or agent of that employer or officer or agent of the voter’s union.

(f) Voters voting by absentee ballot through the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act are not subject to this section. The Secretary of State shall provide applications for absentee voting to military and overseas voters in accordance with Section 17-4-35.
Ala. Code § 17-16-49 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 16 / Section 17-16-49
Section 17-16-49 When Contest Commenced; Security for Costs
Status: in_force

All contests of elections provided for in this article must be commenced within 20 days after the result of the election is declared, except as in this article otherwise provided; and at the time of commencing such contest and the filing of the statement in writing, the party contesting must give security for the cost of such contest, to be filed and approved as provided in this article.
Ala. Code § 17-17-13 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-17-13
Section 17-17-13 Suppressing Nomination
Status: in_force

Any person who suppresses any nomination which has been duly filed pursuant to Section 17-9-3, shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a Class C felony.
Ala. Code § 17-13-70 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 13 / Section 17-13-70
Section 17-13-70 Time for Contesting Generally; Hearing
Status: in_force

Any contest to a nomination made by primary election must be filed within 24 hours after the results of the primary election have been declared, weekends excluded, under the same conditions and on the same grounds as provided in the laws of Alabama for general elections of state and county officers and as provided in this chapter. The person whose nomination is contested under this section shall be notified of the contest in accordance with Section 17-13-83 and shall have five days after notice of the filing of the contest within which to file with the chair his or her objections and answers to such contest. Such contest shall be heard and tried by the county executive committee as to candidates for county offices and by the state committee as to candidates for all other offices; and wherever there is no county executive committee consisting of enough members to obtain a quorum, then by the state executive committee.
Ala. Code § 17-16-44 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 16 / Section 17-16-44
Section 17-16-44 Jurisdiction in Election Contests; Appeal
Status: in_force

No jurisdiction exists in or shall be exercised by any judge or court to entertain any proceeding for ascertaining the legality, conduct, or results of any election, except so far as authority to do so shall be specially and specifically enumerated and set down by statute; and any injunction, process, or order from any judge or court, whereby the results of any election are sought to be inquired into, questioned, or affected, or whereby any certificate of election is sought to be inquired into or questioned, save as may be specially and specifically enumerated and set down by statute, shall be null and void and shall not be enforced by any officer or obeyed by any person. If any judge or other officer hereafter undertakes to fine or in any wise deal with any person for disobeying any such prohibited injunction, process, or order, such attempt shall be null and void, and an appeal shall lie forthwith therefrom to the Supreme Court then sitting, or next to sit, without bond, and such proceedings shall be suspended by force of such appeal; and the notice to be given of such appeal shall be 14 days.
Ala. Code § 17-14-33 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 14 / Section 17-14-33
Section 17-14-33 Making Returns to Secretary of State
Status: in_force

In all elections for electors for President and Vice President, the canvassing board of each county must, within five days after making the statement of the county vote by precincts, return the result of the same to the Secretary of State.
Ala. Code § 17-16-53 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 16 / Section 17-16-53
Section 17-16-53 Contest of Senator or Representative in Legislature - Costs Taxed
Status: in_force

The package mailed by the clerk must be opened by the presiding officer and presented to the house over which he or she presides for such action as such house may deem proper. On the determination of the contest, the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House, as the case may be, must certify the result thereof to the clerk of the court in which the statement of contest was filed. The certificate must be filed in the office of the clerk and shall have the force and effect of a judgment against the unsuccessful party for the costs of the contest. And the clerk having taxed the costs, allowing the fees and costs allowed for similar services in civil cases at law, must issue execution for the amount thereof in the name of the successful party. If the party contesting the election is the unsuccessful party, the unsuccessful party sureties must pay the costs of the contest.
Ala. Code § 17-9-51 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 9 / Section 17-9-51
Section 17-9-51 Time Requirements for Receipt of Absentee Ballots
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2019-507, § 2, effective August 1, 2019.
Ala. Code § 17-7-24 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 7 / Section 17-7-24
Section 17-7-24 Report of Certification or Rejection to Be Issued
Status: in_force

Examinations shall be conducted and a report of certification or rejection issued within 90 days following request by vendor or company.
Ala. Code § 17-13-14 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 13 / Section 17-13-14
Section 17-13-14 Counting of Ballots; Materials to Be Sealed; Delivery and Retention of Materials; Posting of Certificate of Result
Status: in_force

(a) No ballot shall be counted until the polls are closed; and, before counting any ballot or examining the same, the voters’ poll list, as provided in Section 17-9-15, shall be securely sealed in an envelope designated to the appropriate political party chair and the inspector shall write his or her name across every fold at which the envelope, if fastened, could be opened.

After the counting of the votes is finished and certificates of the result have been prepared and signed, the inspector shall seal in a separate voted ballots container all the ballots cast at such election.

The following items shall be placed into a records of election container, which shall then be securely sealed:

(1) One certificate of the results.

(2) The spoiled ballot envelope.

(3) Clerk’s poll list.

(4) All partial ballot pads.

(5) Stubs of ballot pads.

The inspector shall also, in an envelope addressed to the chair of the county executive committee or other governing body of each political party participating, seal up the following:

(1) One certificate of the results.

(2) The voters’ poll list.

Such envelopes, with those contents therein, together with the voted ballots container, shall thereupon be immediately delivered to the sheriff.

The sheriff or sheriff’s designee shall keep the voted ballots container and record of election container securely in his or her possession in accordance with state and federal law. The sheriff shall separately deliver to the chair, or co-chair, of the county executive committee or other governing body of each political party the envelope addressed to the chair, containing the certificate of the results by 10:00 A.M. on the Wednesday following the primary.

(b) Not later than two hours after the polls are closed, the inspector shall also post in a conspicuous place at the polling place, for public inspection there, a copy of the certificate of the result.
Ala. Code § 17-13-79 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 13 / Section 17-13-79
Section 17-13-79 Contestant to Notify Contestee of Votes Sought to Be Proved Illegal
Status: in_force

No testimony shall be received of any illegal votes or of the rejection of any legal votes in any contest commenced under this article unless the party complaining thereof has given to the adverse party notice in writing of the number of illegal votes and by whom given, for whom given, and at what precinct or voting place cast, or the number of legal votes rejected, by whom offered, and at what precinct or voting place they were not allowed to be cast, which he or she expects to prove on the trial. Such notice shall be served personally or left at the residence or usual place of business of the adverse party at least five days before the taking of the testimony in reference to such votes.
Ala. Code § 17-16-43 — Alabama Code / Title 17 / Chapter 16 / Section 17-16-43
Section 17-16-43 Either Party May Have Copy of Registration and Poll Lists
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the judge of probate of any county, upon the application of either party to any contest, or his or her agent or attorney, to deliver to the party, his or her agent or attorney, a certified copy of the registration lists and poll lists (one or both) of his or her county, or of any election precinct therein, upon the payment of his or her fees for certifying and copying the same at the rate of one dollar ($1) per page in making such copy; and such copies, duly certified, shall be received as presumptive evidence of the facts therein stated; the registration lists that the persons therein named were duly registered, and the poll lists that the persons therein named voted at the election and precinct therein named.