Code of Alabama - Title 17: Elections - Chapter 4 - Voter Registration Lists
- Article 1 County Voter Registration Lists.
- Section 17-4-1 Lists of registered voters to be published
The judge of probate shall publish from the state voter registration list a correct alphabetical list of qualified electors either by county, precinct, district, or...
- Section 17-4-2 State voter registration lists
The board of registrars, when registration is closed before a primary, general, or special election, shall certify to the Secretary of State any additions, deletions,...
- Section 17-4-2.1 Electronic poll books
(a) The Secretary of State may allow the use of electronic poll books in lieu of the printed lists of qualified voters provided for in...
- Section 17-4-3 County board of registrars to purge disqualified electors
(a) Each county board of registrars shall purge the computerized statewide voter registration list on a continuous basis, whenever it receives and confirms information that...
- Section 17-4-4 Information of deaths, incompetency, and convictions to be furnished to boards of registrars; rulemaking authority
(a) In addition to all other duties now required by law, the Office of Vital Statistics of the State Department of Public Health shall furnish...
- Section 17-4-5 Notice of previous registration to be given
When a person makes application for registration before a county board of registrars, it shall be the duty of that board, if the elector has...
- Section 17-4-6 Information to be provided by state departments or agencies
(a) To continuously and automatically identify the names of persons to be purged from the voters' list, the appropriate state departments or agencies shall provide...
- Section 17-4-6.1 Investigation of registered voter reported to be deceased or a nonresident of the precinct
(a) To facilitate the continuous maintenance of the computerized statewide voter registration list, each county board of registrars shall investigate written reports from a family...
- Section 17-4-7 Meeting of board of registrars for voter list maintenance
In addition to the duty of the board of registrars to update the voter registration list on a continuous basis, the board of registrars shall...
- Section 17-4-8 Electors to reidentify themselves; notice of reidentification; when eligible by mail
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...
- Section 17-4-9 Inactive voter list; voter reidentification
Any voter who fails to vote for four years in his or her county shall have his or her name placed on an inactive voter...
- Section 17-4-10 Publication of names to be struck from list
The names of persons in the county to be struck from the list of registered voters shall be listed by precinct and in alphabetical order...
- Section 17-4-11 Only electors disqualified or not reidentified to be removed
The board shall not remove the name of any elector, known by any member of the board, or made known to the board by another...
- Section 17-4-12 Records to show reason for striking elector from list; removal for failure to reidentify not permanent disqualification
When the name of any elector is struck from the registration list, the records maintained by the board of registrars must show the reason for...
- Section 17-4-13 Procedure for having name restored to list of qualified electors; limitation of provisions
Any qualified elector of the county whose name is omitted or removed from the list of qualified electors for failure to appear and reidentify himself...
- Section 17-4-14 Permanent list of qualified electors
The Secretary of State shall maintain a permanent list of all qualified electors which shall include the electors' county, precinct, voting history, race, and other...
- Article 2 Statewide Voter Registration File, Voter Registration Advisory Board, and Director of Voter Registration
- Section 17-4-30 Notice to registered voters; updating voter lists; suspense file; publication of names to be struck from list
(a) Beginning in January 1997, and in January of every fourth year thereafter, the boards of registrars shall mail a nonforwardable notice to all registered...
- Section 17-4-31 State to reimburse county commissions certain costs associated with process
The state shall reimburse each county commission for all the postage costs associated with voter lists maintenance activities provided for in Section 17-4-30 and one-fourth...
- Section 17-4-32 Judge of probate to have access to current list of registered voters; no state entities to pay costs for access to list
The judge of probate shall have access to and be provided with the current list of registered voters within his or her county at no...
- Section 17-4-33 Computerized statewide voter registration list
(a) The State of Alabama shall provide, through the Secretary of State, a nondiscriminatory, single, uniform, official, centralized, interactive computerized statewide voter registration list defined,...
- Section 17-4-34 State Voter Registration Advisory Board
(a) As an oversight board for the system, there is created and established a State Voter Registration Advisory Board composed of nine members, to be...
- Section 17-4-35 Supervisor of Voter Registration
The Supervisor of Voter Registration shall be employed by the Secretary of State under the terms and conditions of the state Merit System and the...
- Section 17-4-36 Duties of boards of registrars; voter registration identification number
(a) In order to establish the statewide voter file and to ensure its continued accuracy, it shall be the duty of the boards of registrars,...
- Section 17-4-37 Applicability of chapter
All voter registration, voter reidentification, and the purging of voters from the voter roll shall be done pursuant to this chapter.
- Section 17-4-38 Dissemination of information on voter registration
(a) The Secretary of State shall ensure that all applicants obtain requested voter lists in a timely manner. Methods shall be established for the transmission...
- Section 17-4-38.1 Collecting, sharing, and verifying information; costs; rulemaking authority
(a) State agencies shall provide to the Secretary of State, on a schedule to be determined by the Secretary of State, any information and data...
- Section 17-4-39 Maintenance of state voter registration list
It shall be the responsibility of the board of registrars to enter in a timely manner the names of the electors who vote in each...
- Article 3 The National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act of 2002
Last modified: May 3, 2021