HB503 Alabama 2015 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Mike Hill

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2015

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.

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Subjects

Elections