SB241 Alabama 2014 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Senate Bill

Expired

Current Status

Regular Session 2014

Session

2

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tom Whatley
Republican
Co-Sponsor: Cam Ward
Session: Regular Session 2014
Title: Elections, write-in votes, procedures to count, duties to judge of probate in co. elections, Secretary of State for state election, Secs. 17-6-28, 17-12-1 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, write-in votes are permitted only in non-municipal general elections and all write-in votes are counted if the voter properly writes the name on the ballot and registers the vote by a mark in the space designated for that particular office.
This bill would amend the current law to provide that write-in votes for a specific office would be counted at the same time as provisional ballots are counted if the number of write-in votes for that office is greater than or equal to the difference in votes between the candidates receiving the greatest number of votes for that office.
Subjects: Elections

Pending third reading on day 12 Favorable from Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections with 1 amendment

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections