Code of Alabama - Title 17: Elections - Chapter 8 - Election Officers

• Section 17-8-1 Appointment of election officials; duties
  (a) The appointing board, or a majority of them acting as an appointing board, not more than 20 nor less than 15 days before the...
• Section 17-8-2 Notice of appointment
  The judge of probate shall notify such inspector and clerk of their appointment by mail and publish a list of them in a newspaper of...
• Section 17-8-2.1 Political parties not included on ballot unless requirements met
  THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED AND RENUMBERED AS SECTION 17-6-22 BY ACT 2006-570.
• Section 17-8-3 When officers ineligible to serve on appointing board
  When the judge of probate, sheriff, or clerk of the circuit court is a candidate for election to any office at that election and has...
• Section 17-8-4 Replacement of ineligible member of appointing board
  Upon receiving the certificate provided for in Section 17-8-3, the remaining members of the appointing board shall forthwith and without delay appoint a qualified elector...
• Section 17-8-5 Political parties furnish lists from which appointments are made
  Each political party or organization having made nominations, by the chair of its state or county executive committee or nominees for office, may furnish the...
• Section 17-8-6 Failure of election officials to attend
  On the failure of any precinct election official to attend at the hour of 7:00 A.M., such precinct election officials as may be present may...
• Section 17-8-7 Poll watchers
  (a) Except in the case of municipal elections, each political party or organization having candidates nominated, by a writing submitted to the inspector by the...
• Section 17-8-8 Oaths of election officials
  Before entering upon their duties, precinct election officials must take an oath to perform their duties at the election according to law, and such oath...
• Section 17-8-9 Instruction of election officials
  (a) Not less than five days before an election or primary election, the authority charged with holding the same shall cause to be held a...
• Section 17-8-10 Returning officer
  The sheriff of each county or the person discharging the duties of such office is the returning officer for the county. The inspector for each...
• Section 17-8-11 Return of ballots in absence of inspector
  If the inspector is not present at the hour appointed, the precinct election officials present shall select one of their number to return the ballots...
• Section 17-8-12 Compensation of election officials
  (a) The inspector and clerks shall each be entitled to base compensation of fifty dollars ($50). The compensation of the election officials shall be paid...
• Section 17-8-13 Certain election officials excused from employment to perform election duties
  (a) All laws to the contrary notwithstanding, any precinct election official appointed pursuant to Section 17-8-1 shall be excused from his or her employment without...
• Section 17-8-14 Student interns
  (a) The judge of probate in each county may appoint not more than two students for each precinct to serve as unpaid student interns during elections. To be appointed a student intern,...

Last modified: May 3, 2021