Alabama Administrative Code › Title 630 - ALABAMA BOARD OF OPTOMETRY › Chapter 630-X-4 - NOMINATING AND ELECTING NOMINEES FOR BOARD APPOINTMENT › Section 630-X-4-.03 - Voting

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
Votes at the annual meeting will be cast and counted as herein
				provided.
(a) Prior to the annual
			 meeting the secretary-treasurer shall cause to be prepared a sufficient number
			 of ballots containing the names of those persons listed the highest number of
			 times on the forms as hereinabove provided and such ballot shall contain blanks
			 for the insertion of the names of persons who may be nominated by petition at
			 the annual meeting.
(b) At the end
			 of the 30 minute period hereinabove provided for nominations by petition, the
			 secretary-treasurer shall cause the names of all persons so nominated by
			 petition to be inserted on the ballots. The ballots so prepared by the
			 secretary-treasurer shall be the official ballot and shall be used in
			 conducting the election.
(c) As
			 each licensed optometrist holding a current annual registration is given a
			 ballot, said optometrist shall sign a form signifying the receipt of said
			 ballot and also signing his license number next to his signature. Balloting is
			 by secret ballot and the optometrist need not sign the ballot sheet. No ballots
			 will be given out prior to the voting and each optometrist shall be given only
			 one ballot as they sign the form provided for above.
(d) The president shall appoint a committee
			 of ten licensed optometrists in attendance at the meeting to serve as election
			 clerks and it shall be the duty of the election clerks to take up, count, and
			 tabulate the ballots, and to report the tabulation to the president who shall
			 announce the results.
(e) No
			 cumulative or proxy voting shall be permitted and each optometrist voting must
			 vote for five nominees in order for his ballot to be valid. Any ballot
			 indicating votes for more or less than five nominees shall be null and void and
			 shall not be counted.
(f) After all
			 valid ballots are counted, the five persons receiving the greatest number of
			 votes shall be the five persons certified to the Governor for appointment to
			 the Board, without substitution.
(g) Within three days after the meeting, the
			 secretary-treasurer shall notify those licensees whose names shall be certified
			 to the Governor that their names shall be submitted to the Governor. Ten days
			 after the meeting, the secretary-treasurer shall submit the list to the
			 Governor. In order for a person to withdraw from the list to be certified to
			 the Governor, the person must do so in writing and present it to the
			 secretary-treasurer prior to the submission of the list to the Governor. If a
			 person withdraws their name from the list, the list shall be composed solely of
			 those names remaining.
(h) In the
			 event of ties, run-off elections will be conducted using blank ballots
			 furnished by the secretary- treasurer with votes being cast by writing in the
			 name(s) of the nominees involved in the run-off selected by the persons voting.
Author:
Dr. Larry Carter
Previous rule (same title) filed September 13, 1982.
Amended:
Filed March 6, 1985. Repealed: Filed July 9,
				  1990.
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
				  1975
, §
										34-22-40.