Ala. Code § 11-46-44 (1975) Votes Not to Be Counted Until Polls Closed; Disposition of Poll Lists and Affidavits; Counting of Ballots

• Library: Alabama Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions.
• Year: 2023
• Citation: Ala. Code § 11-46-44 (1975)

(a) No votes shall be counted until the polls are closed.

(b) Immediately after the polls are closed at elections where paper ballots are used, the poll list signed by the voters and the poll list made by one of the clerks shall be sealed in separate envelopes and labelled before the inspectors begin to count the votes.

(c) As soon as this is done, the ballots cast shall be counted in the following manner: The returning officer or one of the inspectors must take the ballots one by one from the box in which they were deposited, at ...

Cite as Ala. Code § 11-46-44 (1975)

History: Acts 1961, No. 663, p. 827, §24; Act 2010-687, p. 1660, § 1.