Under existing law, the right to vote a secret ballot is inviolate.
This bill would prohibit an individual from taking a picture of another voter's ballot or otherwise revealing the contents of another voter's ballot at any polling place.
This bill would provide penalties for violations.
This bill would also provide that if a voter has posted an image of his or her own ballot contents electronically, any retransmittal of that image is not a violation.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Bracy motion to Indefinitely Postpone adopted Voice Vote
Bracy motion to Substitute SB128 for HB173 a Companion Bill pending
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 977
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 976
Constitution, Campaigns and Elections 2nd Amendment Offered
Constitution, Campaigns and Elections 1st Amendment Offered
Third Reading Indefinitely Postponed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 2 amendments
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Constitution, Campaigns and Elections
Source: Alabama Legislature