HB 16

Under existing law, a board of registrars is prohibited from registering an individual as a qualified elector within 10 days of a municipal election

This bill would provide that an individual must register to vote for a municipal election within the same time frame as provided for county and state elections

Relating to municipal elections; to amend Section 11-46-38, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide that an individual must register to vote for a municipal election within the same time frame as provided for county and state elections.

Section 1

Section 11-46-38, Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows:

§11-46-38.

(a) At all municipal elections, the a qualified elector must may vote only in the ward or precinct of his or her residence where he or she is registered to vote and at the box or voting machine to which he or she has been assigned.

(b) No person An individual may not vote at any municipal election unless he or she is a registered and qualified elector of the State of Alabama, who has resided in the county 30 days and in the ward 30 days prior to the election, and who has registered not less than 10 days prior to the date of the election at which he or she offers to vote to vote in conformance with the time frame set forth in Section 17-3-50; provided, however, that any elector who, within 30 days next preceding the date of the election at which he or she offers to vote, has removed if a qualified elector relocates his or her residence from one ward to another ward in the same city or town within the 30-day period prior to the election, the elector shall have the right to vote in the ward from which he or she has removed, where the elector had previously resided if he or she would have been entitled to vote in the that ward but for such removal relocating to the new ward. If any elector attempts to vote in any ward other than that of his or her residence, except as hereinabove authorized, his or her vote must be rejected.

Section 2

All laws or parts of laws which conflict with this act are repealed.

Section 3

This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.