SB85 Alabama 2010 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
Linda Coleman-MadisonSenatorDemocrat- Session
- Regular Session 2010
- Title
- Elections, write-in candidates, registration with judge of probate or Secretary of State prior to election required, compliance with Fair Campaign Practices Act and State Ethics Law required, Sec. 17-6-28 am'd.
- Description
Under existing law, write-in votes are permitted only in non-municipal general elections.
This bill would require that in order to have a write-in vote counted, the voter must write the name on the ballot and register the vote by a mark in the space designated for that particular office.
This bill would also require that a write-in candidate be registered with the Secretary of State or the judge of probate as an official write-in candidate and comply with the provisions of the Fair Campaign Practices Act and the State Ethics Law in order to have his or her vote counted.
- Subjects
- Elections
Bill Actions
Pending third reading on day 8 Favorable from Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections with 1 substitute
Indefinitely Postponed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections
Bill Text
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature