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AL Code § 17-13-75 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-75 - Witnesses - Testifying as to Vote.

Section 17-13-75Witnesses - Testifying as to vote. Any person examined as a witness on a contest of a nomination may be required to answer as to whether he or she voted at the primary and touching his or her qualification to vote thereat and to answer for whom he or she voted in the race concerned in the contest. A person who swears falsely upon such contest to any material matter may be prosecuted for any perjury thereby committed, as defined by Section 13A-10-100; but if on such contest the person makes full and true answers, any of which may incriminate or tend to incriminate the person, the person shall not be prosecuted in any court, either for voting in the primary or for any offense committed and disclosed by the answers. (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §376; §17-16-75; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63.)
AL Code § 17-13-76 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-76 - Witnesses - Oaths; Summoning Witnesses; Expenses.

Section 17-13-76Witnesses - Oaths; summoning witnesses; expenses. 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. (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §390; §17-16-76; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63.)
AL Code § 17-13-77 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-77 - Registration Lists to Be Furnished Upon Request.

Section 17-13-77Registration lists to be furnished upon request. The judge of probate of any county, upon the application of either party to any contest or his or her agent or attorney, shall deliver to the party, agent, or attorney a certified copy of the registration list of the county or for any election district, ward, or precinct therein, upon payment of the fees for certifying and copying the same at the rate of one dollar ($1) per page in making such copy. Such copies, duly certified, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein; namely, copies of the registration lists that the persons named therein were duly registered. Any chair of any committee or other authority or person in whose possession, control, or custody there is any list of persons voting at the primary election or any other paper lawfully pertaining to the primary election, shall furnish a copy thereof for any state, county, district, ward, or precinct, duly certified by him or her, whenever required in writing by either party to a contest or his or her agent or attorney, upon the applicant's paying in advance the reasonable cost of preparing such copy, and such duly certified copies shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the matter indicated or recited therein. (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §377; §17-16-77; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63.)
AL Code § 17-13-78 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-78 - Statement by Elector Contesting Election.

Section 17-13-78Statement by elector contesting election. (a) Any elector of a party desiring to contest the nomination by his or her party of any candidate declared the nominee for any office shall make a statement in writing setting forth specifically all of the following: (1) The name of the party contesting and that the elector was a qualified elector when the primary was held and he or she participated therein. (2) The nomination which the election was held to fill. (3) The time of holding the election. (4) The name of the person declared nominated. (5) The particular grounds on which the nomination is contested.  (b) The contest is instituted by filing this statement and giving security as provided in this article, which statement must be certified by the affidavit of such contesting party to the effect that he or she believes the same to be true. (c) If the reception of illegal votes is alleged as a ground for contest, it is a sufficient statement of the ground to allege that illegal votes were given to the person whose nomination is contested, which, if taken from him or her will, of themselves alone or in conjunction with other alleged grounds of contest, if any, reduce the number of legal votes given to him or her down to or below the number of legal votes given to some other candidate for the same nomination; and if the rejection of legal votes is alleged as a ground, it is a sufficient statement of the ground to allege the legal votes were offered and rejected which, if cast and counted, would of themselves alone or in conjunction with other alleged grounds, if any, increase the number of legal votes cast for such candidate to a number equal to or greater than the number to which the contestee was legally entitled.  (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §378; §17-16-78; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63.)
AL Code § 17-13-79 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-79 - Contestant to Notify Contestee of Votes Sought to Be Proved Illegal.

Section 17-13-79Contestant to notify contestee of votes sought to be proved illegal. 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. (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §379; §17-16-79; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63.)
AL Code § 17-13-80 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-80 - Contest of Nomination to County Office - Time and Manner of Commencement.

Section 17-13-80Contest of nomination to county office - Time and manner of commencement. Any contest of a nomination to any county office must be commenced within 24 hours after the result has been canvassed and the nomination declared by the county executive committee of the party holding the primary, by filing a statement of contest with the chair of such county committee, in the same manner and form as is provided in this article for contest of other nominations, and depositing at the same time with such chair the sum of fifty dollars ($50) in cash to be used by the county executive committee in paying the expenses of such contest from time to time as such expenses may be authorized or directed by the county executive committee. The person whose nomination is contested under this section shall be notified of such 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 such chair his or her objections and answers to such contest.  (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §380; §17-16-80; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63.)
AL Code § 17-13-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-81 - Contest of Nomination to County Office - Duty of Chair of County Executive Committee in Case of Contest.

Section 17-13-81Contest of nomination to county office - Duty of chair of county executive committee in case of contest. The chair of the county executive committee, upon the filing with him or her of any contest as provided in this article, shall call the committee together at the county seat and the committee shall meet not more than five calendar days from the filing of such contest to hear and determine the same. (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §381; §17-16-81; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63; Act 2014-6, p. 21, §1.)
AL Code § 17-13-83 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-83 - Manner of Commencing Contest of Nomination to Office Other Than County Office.

Section 17-13-83Manner of commencing contest of nomination to office other than county office. Any qualified elector of a party participating in any primary election held under the provisions of this chapter may, if the elector participated in the primary, contest a nomination declared by his or her party to any office, other than a county office, by filing with the chair of the state executive committee a statement of contest and grounds thereof, as required by this article, for contest before a committee, verified and with averments the same as therein provided and by giving security as provided in this article. The person whose nomination is contested shall at once be notified by such chair in writing of such fact, and such contestee shall have five days after the receipt of such notice of such contest within which to file with the chair of the state executive committee his or her objections and answers to the statement of contest. (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §384; §17-16-83; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63.)
AL Code § 17-13-84 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-84 - Filing Statements of Contests; Depositions; Costs; Service of Process; Contempt.

Section 17-13-84Filing statements of contests; depositions; costs; service of process; contempt. Upon the filing of any contest of nomination, the chair of the executive committee with which the contest is filed shall file a statement in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county where the contestant resides of the fact that such a contest has been filed, giving the names of the parties thereto, the nomination contested and the day set for hearing. After such statement is filed, the clerk of the circuit court shall issue such subpoenas for witnesses and orders for production of documents and shall issue commissions for the taking of testimony by deposition as required by either party, each party to the contest being responsible for costs incurred by him or her for the summoning and attendance of witnesses on his or her behalf, and the clerk may issue execution for such costs the same as in civil cases. It shall be the duty of the sheriff to serve all process issued by the circuit clerk and execute all orders and processes of the executive committee or subcommittee trying the contest. Such executive committee or subcommittee shall have the same power and authority as the circuit judges of this state to enforce obedience to its orders and process and to punish disobedience to its orders by fine or imprisonment, as for contempt. Such executive committee or subcommittee, of its own motion or at the request of either party, may require any person to produce before it papers or documents pertinent to any inquiry before such executive committee or subcommittee. The chair of the executive committee or subcommittee trying the contest may issue directly to the sheriff process for the attendance of witnesses or the production of documents or commissions for taking depositions without the intervention of the circuit clerk, as provided in this article. (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §385; §17-16-84; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63.)
AL Code § 17-13-85 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-85 - Meeting of State Executive Committee.

Section 17-13-85Meeting of state executive committee. The chair of the state executive committee shall, upon the filing of a contest with him or her, as provided in this article, call the committee to meet and the committee shall meet not more than five calendar days from the time of filing such contest for the purpose of hearing and determining the same, or, without calling the committee to meet, the chair may appoint a subcommittee as herein provided for and the subcommittee shall meet not more than five calendar days after a contest is filed for the purpose of hearing and determining the same. (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §386; §17-16-85; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63; Act 2014-6, p. 21, §1.)
AL Code § 17-13-86 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-86 - Declaration of Result of Contest.

Section 17-13-86Declaration of result of contest. Upon the hearing of any contest, if the state or county executive committee finally determines who is the legal nominee for any office, it shall make a declaration of its judgment upon the question not later than 90 days before the general election for a county office and not later than 83 days before the general election for a state office. If the committee fails or refuses to hear or determine the outcome of a contest by the 90th day before the general election for a county office or the 83rd day before the general election for a state office, the failure or refusal shall be treated as a dismissal or the rendition of judgment against the contestant, and a certificate thereof shall be forwarded by either the county chair to the judge of probate or the state chair to the Secretary of State . (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §387; §17-16-86; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63; Act 2014-6, p. 21, §1.)
AL Code § 17-13-87 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-87 - New Primary in Case Contest Cannot Be Decided.

Section 17-13-87New primary in case contest cannot be decided. If, upon the hearing of any contest for any office, as provided for in this chapter, the committee, after an investigation and hearing of the contest, shall determine that it is impossible from the evidence before it to decide who is the legally nominated candidate for the office contested, it may direct a new primary election for the nomination to any such office, but where any action is taken by any county executive committee, either person to the contest, in the same manner as herein provided for in the case of appeals from the action of any county committee, may take an appeal to the state executive committee, which shall be the court of final appeal in all party contests of nominations; provided that, upon hearing of any contest or appeal, as provided for in this chapter, which is not referred to and decided by a subcommittee, 15 members of any such state executive committee shall constitute a quorum for the hearing and determining of such contest or appeal; provided further, that the entire committee shall be notified of the meeting in the usual way.  (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §388; §17-16-87; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63.)
AL Code § 17-13-88 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-88 - Power of State Committee to Provide Rules of Party Procedure.

Section 17-13-88Power of state committee to provide rules of party procedure. The state executive committee may prescribe such other additional rules governing contests and other matters of party procedure as it may deem necessary not in conflict with this chapter. (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §389; §17-16-88; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63.)
AL Code § 17-13-89 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 3 - Contests of Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-89 - Commissioners to Take Testimony.

Section 17-13-89Commissioners to take testimony. Upon filing of any contest as herein provided, the executive committee before whom any such contest is pending, if in session, or the chair of such committee, if it is not in session, may appoint a commissioner, upon the request of either party, for the purpose of taking testimony in such contest, and such commissioner shall take testimony in such contest as he or she may be directed to take by the chair of such committee, and five days' notice of the time when and place where such commissioner expects to take such testimony and the names of the witnesses to be examined shall be given the opposite party to the contest. Each party to the contest may be represented before such commissioner, but before any such commissioner is appointed, the party desiring the appointment made shall deposit with the chair of such committee sufficient funds to pay the expenses and fees of such commissioner and the fees and mileage of any witness which may be summoned before such commissioner. And such commissioner, when appointed, for the purpose of the contest in which he or she is to take testimony, may summon witnesses to appear before him or her in such contest and administer oaths to such witnesses and shall have all the authority vested in a judge of a district court to punish for contempt. Such commissioner shall not be of kin to either party to the contest. (Acts 1931, No. 56, p. 73; Code 1940, T. 17, §391; §17-16-89; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §63.)
AL Code § 17-13-100 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 4 - Presidential Preference Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-100 - When Held; Reimbursement of County.

Section 17-13-100When held; reimbursement of county. (a) Primary elections for the purpose of determining the preferred candidates for President of the United States shall be held the first Tuesday in March each year in which a President is to be elected beginning in the year 2016. (b) Subject to rules and procedures of the political party of any presidential candidate, the names of any candidates for delegate to the national conventions pledged to a presidential candidate shall be placed under his or her name and the delegates shall be elected in the primary election as provided herein. (c) The State of Alabama shall reimburse a county for all sums expended in holding and conducting the presidential preference primary as provided in Section 17-16-4. (Acts 1978, No. 691, p. 994, §1; Acts 1979, No. 79-547, p. 994, §1; Code 1975, §17-18A-1; Acts 1990, No. 90-699, p. 1359, §1; Act 2006-634, p. 1731, §1; §17-16A-1; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §65; Act 2007-461, p. 965, §3; Act 2011-566, p. 1142, §1; Act 2015-239, §1.)
AL Code § 17-13-101 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 4 - Presidential Preference Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-101 - Applicability of Section 17-9-3 and This Chapter.

Section 17-13-101Applicability of Section 17-9-3 and this chapter. The provisions of Section 17-9-3 and this chapter shall apply to presidential preference primaries held under the provisions of this article unless clearly inconsistent herewith or inappropriate for the conduct of a presidential preference primary. Any political party holding a presidential preference primary may promulgate rules for the conduct of such primary not inconsistent with the provisions of this article. (Code 1975, §17-18A-2; Acts 1978, No. 691, p. 994, §2; §17-16A-2; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §65.)
AL Code § 17-13-102 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 4 - Presidential Preference Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-102 - Petition Requirements.

Section 17-13-102Petition requirements. In order to qualify the name of any person to appear on the ballot at a presidential preference primary, a petition or petitions in support of his or her candidacy shall be filed with the state party chair of the appropriate political party, hereinafter referred to as "chair," 116 days prior to the presidential preference primary election. To comply with this section, a candidate may file a petition or petitions signed by a total of not less than 500 qualified electors of the state, or petitions signed by not less than 50 qualified electors of each congressional district of the state, in which case there shall be a separate petition for each congressional district. The petitions shall be in such form as the chair may prescribe; provided, that there shall be a space for the county of residence of each signer next to the space provided for his or her signature. No signature may be counted as valid unless the county of residence of the signer is provided. Each petition shall contain an affirmation under the penalties of perjury that each signer is a qualified elector in his or her congressional district or in the state, as appropriate. The decision of the chair as to the regularity of the petitions shall be final. (Code 1975, §17-18A-3; Acts 1978, No. 691, p. 994, §3; Acts 1979, No. 79-547, p. 994, §1; Acts 1990, No. 90-699, p. 1359, §1; Act 2006-634, p. 1731, §1; §17-16A-3; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §65; Act 2015-477, §1.)
AL Code § 17-13-103 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 17 - Elections.|Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.|Article 4 - Presidential Preference Primary Elections.|Section 17-13-103 - Filing Fee.

Section 17-13-103Filing fee. No candidate shall be allowed to have his or her name placed on the ballot at a presidential preference primary unless there shall be paid to the chair, at the time of filing his or her qualifying petition, such fee as the party may prescribe. (Code 1975, §17-18A-4; Acts 1978, No. 691, p. 994, §4; Acts 1979, No. 79-547, p. 994, §1; §17-16A-4; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §65.)