Code of Alabama - Title 17: Elections - Chapter 12 - Canvassing Returns/declaring Results

• Section 17-12-1 Conclusion of voting; locking of equipment; certificates of result
  When the time arrives for closing the polls, all qualified voters, who are then waiting within the voting room to vote, shall be permitted by...
• Section 17-12-2 Statements of results
  The authority charged with the holding of an election or primary election shall cause to be prepared a statement of results on a form to...
• Section 17-12-3 Reserved
• Section 17-12-4 Procedures upon malfunction of equipment
  If a precinct ballot counter malfunctions, the polls shall remain open and voters shall deposit their ballots in a ballot box or other suitable container....
• Section 17-12-5 Retest of equipment
  The judge of probate may order a post-election retest of any precinct ballot counter or memory pack tabulator using the same procedures prescribed for the...
• Section 17-12-6 Counting upon close of polls
  Inspectors of elections in the voting places shall, immediately on the closing of the polls, count the votes polled, and no votes shall be counted...
• Section 17-12-7 Preservation of ballots by sheriff
  When no federal elections are on the ballot, the sheriff shall keep the ballots six months in the voted ballot box, without opening or unsealing...
• Section 17-12-8 Count of votes to be sealed, certified, and delivered to sheriff; public inspection of results
  As soon as the ballots are counted, the inspectors shall ascertain the number of votes received for each person and for what office and shall...
• Section 17-12-9 Delivery of certificates to judge of probate; forwarding to Secretary of State
  The canvassing board must, as soon as they have ascertained the result of an election, make on forms furnished by the Secretary of State certificates...
• Section 17-12-10 Posting of certificate of result
  Immediately after the election the inspectors shall post in front of the polling place a copy of their certificate of the result of the election.
• Section 17-12-11 Returns of election - How made; duty of judge of probate
  One copy of the certificate of the result of the election shall be signed by the inspector and enclosed in an envelope, which shall then...
• Section 17-12-12 Returns of election - Sealing, delivery, and disposition of records
  After completing and signing the certificate of result, the election officials shall seal the ballots, certificates, and other records as follows: (1) Where precinct ballot...
• Section 17-12-13 Procedure; improperly marked ballots
  Except where precinct ballot counters are used in counting the ballots, the inspector must take the ballots, one by one, from the box in which...
• Section 17-12-14 Ballots to be counted, labeled, sealed, and delivered to returning officer
  Except where precinct ballot counters are used, the inspectors must count the ballots deposited in the box, and as soon as all the ballots contained...
• Section 17-12-15 Time and manner of canvassing
  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...
• Section 17-12-16 Certification of results
  Immediately after ascertaining the results of an election for county officers, including members of the House of Representatives of the Legislature, the canvassing board must...
• Section 17-12-17 Canvass of election returns by state officials
  All returns of elections required by law to be sent to the Secretary of State must, within 22 days after an election, be opened, counted,...
• Section 17-12-18 Governor proclaims result of certain elections
  Except as to officers provided for in Sections 17-12-16 and 17-12-19, the Governor must immediately declare the results of the election as ascertained in Section...
• Section 17-12-19 Returns of election of state officers
  The certificates of the canvassing board forwarded to the Secretary of State as to the election of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Auditor, Secretary of...
• Section 17-12-20 List of registered voters open to inspection
  After having ascertained the result of an election, made declarations thereof, and made the certificates provided for in Sections 17-12-9 and 17-12-16, the board of...
• Section 17-12-21 Certificates of election to members of Congress and legislators
  The Secretary of State shall, within 10 days after receiving the returns of election from the judge of probate of each county, furnish, from a...
• Section 17-12-22 Results of election of state officers; resolution of tie votes
  The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, within the first five days of the session of the Legislature, in the presence of a majority...
• Section 17-12-23 How tie vote decided
  In all elections where there is a tie between the two highest candidates for the same office, for all county or precinct offices, it shall...
• Section 17-12-24 Penalty for failure to make returns
  If any officer required to make returns of any election to the Secretary of State or to the Speaker of the House of Representatives fails...
• Section 17-12-25 Notice of failure to make return
  Whenever the return of any officer, required to be made to the Secretary of State or to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is...

Last modified: May 3, 2021