Ala. Code § 11-46-25 (1975) Ballots; Statements of Candidacy; Withdrawal of Candidacy

• Library: Alabama Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions.
• Year: 2023
• Citation: Ala. Code § 11-46-25 (1975)

(a) In all municipal elections on any subject which may be submitted by law to a vote of the people of the municipality and for any municipal officers, if paper ballots are used, the voting shall be by official ballot printed and distributed as provided in subsections (c) and (d), and no ballot shall be received or counted in any election unless it is provided as prescribed by law.

(b) There shall be but one form of ballot for all the candidates for municipal office and every ballot provided for use at any polling place in a municipal election shall contain the names of all candidates who have properly qualified and have not withdrawn, as provided in subsection (g), together with the title of the office for which they are candidates.

(c) All ballots shall be printed in black ink on clear book paper. At the bottom of each ballot and at a point an equal distance from the sides thereof there shall be printed a one-inch square in which the number of the ballot shall be placed by the inspector when the ballot is cast. The arrangement of the ballot shall in general conform substantially to the plan given in subsection (f).

(d) Ballots shall be fastened together in convenient numbers in books or blocks in such manner that each ballot may be detached and removed separately, and each ballot shall have attached to it a stub of sufficient size to enable one of the inspectors to write or stamp his or her name or initials thereon and so attached to the ballot that when the same is folded the stub can be detached therefrom without injury to the ballot or exposing the contents thereof.

(e) Absentee ballots shall be in the form prescribed for absentee ballots by Title 17.

(f) The ballot shall be arranged in substantially the following form:

<TABLE border="1"> <TR><TD>For Mayor</TD> </TR> <TR><TD>Vote for One</TD> </TR> <TR><TD>( ) John Doe</TD> </TR> <TR><TD>( ) Richard Roe</TD> </TR> <TR><TD>For City Council Place Number One</TD> </TR> <TR><TD>( ) _____________________</TD> </TR> <TR><TD>( ) _____________________</TD> </TR> <TR><TD>For City Council Place Number Two</TD> </TR> <TR><TD>( )_____________________</TD> </TR> <TR><TD>( ) _____________________</TD> </TR> <TR><TD>Etc.</TD> </TR> </TABLE>

(g)[The mayor] Upon confirmation from the Alabama Ethics Commission that a candidate has complied with the filing requirements under Section 36-25-15, the clerk shall cause to be printed on the ballots the name of any qualified elector who, by 5:00 P.M. on the [third] fourth Tuesday in [July] June preceding the date set for the election, has filed a statement of candidacy, accompanied by an affidavit taken and certified by an officer authorized to take acknowledgments in this state that [such person] the individual is duly qualified to hold the office for which the [person] individual desires to become a candidate. [Such] The statement shall be substantially in the following form: