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.
Assigned Act No. 2019-370.
Enrolled
Signature Requested
Passed Second House
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 979
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Constitution, Campaigns and Elections
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 638
Third Reading Passed
Elliott motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
Elliott motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 268
Governmental Affairs first Substitute Offered
Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
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 Governmental Affairs
Source: Alabama Legislature