HB371 Alabama 2021 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Andrew Sorrell Auditor

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2021

Title

Elections, voter lists, judge of probate to place public voter lists on Internet public notice website maintained by Sec. of State, counties authorized to opt out, municipalities authorized to publish municipal voter lists on Sec. of State notice website, Secs. 11-46-36, 17-4-1 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, the judge of probate of each county is required to publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the county a list of all registered voters in the county prior to each primary election.

This bill would amend Section 17-4-1 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to require the list of registered voters to be published prior to each primary election by the judge of probate on a public notice website established by the Secretary of State, unless the county commission opts out of this method of publication. This bill would provide the method by which a county commission may opt out of the public notice website.

This bill would require the Secretary of State to establish and operate a public notice website on which voter lists may be published.

This bill would authorize the Secretary of State to charge a fee to cover the cost of publication. There would be no fee charged to the public for usage of the public notice website.

Also under existing law, the clerk of each municipality is required to create a list of registered voters with in the municipality prior to each municipal election.

This bill would amend Section 11-46-36, Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize a municipal clerk to publish the list of qualified voters for each municipal election on the public notice website.

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Subjects

Public Notices