Code of Alabama - Title 17: Elections - Chapter 3 - Voter Registration

• Article 1 Board of Registrars.
• Section 17-3-1 Promulgation of rules for registration applications
  The Secretary of State may promulgate rules for the receipt of applications for registration and the expedient administration of those applications, but no person shall...
• Section 17-3-2 Qualifications and appointment of registrars; chair
  (a) Registration shall be conducted in each county by a board of three reputable and suitable persons to be appointed, unless otherwise provided by law,...
• Section 17-3-3 Terms of office; removal from office
  The registrars appointed under this article may be removed for cause by the Secretary of State at any time before the end of their term...
• Section 17-3-4 Filling of vacancies
  If one or more of the persons appointed on such board of registrars shall refuse, neglect, or be unable to qualify to serve, or if...
• Section 17-3-5 Compensation and allowances for registrars; treatment as state employees
  (a) Each registrar shall receive a salary in the amount of eighty dollars ($80) per day for each day's attendance upon business of the board,...
• Section 17-3-6 Oath of office; registrars designated as judicial officers
  Before entering upon the performance of the duties of office, each registrar shall take the same oath as required by the judicial officers of the...
• Section 17-3-7 Quorum
  The action of a majority of the board of registrars shall be the action of the board, and a majority of the board shall constitute...
• Section 17-3-8 Sessions of boards; working days of registrars; special registration sessions
  (a) Each member of the board of registrars in the Counties of Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Dallas, Escambia, Geneva, Lowndes, Perry, Sumter, and Wilcox may meet...
• Section 17-3-9 Time and place of meeting in counties with two or more courthouses
  Where there are two or more courthouses in any county, the board of registrars shall divide the time as appropriate between the courthouses for the...
• Section 17-3-10 Expenditure of county funds for supplies, office space, etc.; clerical personnel of boards
  All county governing bodies are authorized and directed to expend county funds for supplies, equipment, telephone service, office space, and clerical help as may be...
• Section 17-3-11 Registration of voters at colleges and universities
  (a) The board of registrars in each county shall visit each college or university, whether public or private, having an enrollment of 500 or more,...
• Section 17-3-12 Per diem for board members; appointments to fill board vacancies
  Each member of the board of registrars shall receive sixty dollars ($60) per day, for each day's attendance upon the special sessions of the board...
• Section 17-3-13 Compensation increases
  (a) A county commission, upon the adoption of a resolution, may increase the per diem compensation paid to each member of the county board of...
• Article 2 Qualifications of Electors.
• Section 17-3-30 Qualifications of electors generally
  Any person possessing the qualifications of an elector set out in Article 8 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as modified by federal law,...
• Section 17-3-30.1 Disqualification of electors for felonies involving moral turpitude
  (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Felony Voter Disqualification Act. (b)(1) The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Article...
• Section 17-3-31 Restoration of right to vote upon pardon or issuance of certificate of eligibility
  Any person who is disqualified by reason of conviction of any of the offenses mentioned in Article VIII of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901,...
• Section 17-3-32 Domicile not acquired or lost by temporary absence
  No person shall lose or acquire a domicile either by temporary absence from his or her domicile without the intention of remaining or by navigating...
• Section 17-3-33 Domicile of persons located partly in multiple counties, districts, or precincts
  When the dwelling of any person is located partly in two or more counties, districts, or precincts, such persons may select the county, district, or...
• Section 17-3-34 Persons living on boundary lines between counties, districts, or precincts
  Any person who lives on a line between counties, districts, or precincts, and shall have fixed his or her citizenship according to law and that...
• Article 3 Registration of Electors.
• Section 17-3-50 Registration deadline
  The boards of registrars in the several counties of the state shall not register any person as a qualified elector within 14 days prior to...
• Section 17-3-51 Certificate of registration
  The registrars shall issue to each person registered a certificate of registration. When voting precinct boundaries and voting locations are changed, new certificates of registration...
• Section 17-3-52 Examination and oath of applicants; disclosure of information
  The board of registrars shall have power to examine, under oath or affirmation, all applicants for registration, and to take testimony touching the qualifications of...
• Section 17-3-53 Access by political parties to voter registration information
  Political parties, as defined in Section 17-13-40, may obtain all voter registration information, except for voters' Social Security numbers and month and day of birth,...
• Section 17-3-54 Refusal of registration - Authorized; notice required
  Any person making application to the board of registrars for registration who fails to establish by evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the board of...
• Section 17-3-55 Refusal of registration - Appeal
  Any person to whom registration is denied shall have the right of appeal, without giving security for costs, within 30 days after such denial, by...
• Section 17-3-56 Registration required only once; exceptions
  No person heretofore registered and no person hereafter registered shall again be required to register unless he or she has changed the county of his...
• Section 17-3-57 Forms and supplies; publication of notices; expenses
  The Secretary of State shall furnish to each board of registrars the necessary forms and supplies for effectuating the purposes of this chapter, and the...
• Section 17-3-58 Voters in territory transferred to another county
  Every qualified elector of the State of Alabama whose domicile is in territory which has been detached from one county and added to an adjoining...
• Section 17-3-59 Electors temporarily out of the county may register
  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...
• Section 17-3-60 Clerical assistance for judge of probate and board of registrars
  The judge of probate may employ such assistants and clerical help as may be necessary to complete and properly prepare reports from the state voter...

Last modified: May 3, 2021