Alabama

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Register for Voting

The deadline to vote is the 15th day before election day.

The requirements to be registered to vote in Alabama:

• Citizen of the United States living in the state of Alabama
• Must be 18 years old of age on or before election.
• Must not be barred from a disqualifying felony conviction
• You must not have been judged to be mentally incompetent by a court of law.

ID Requirements:

You must have a valid Alabama Driver’s License or an Alabama State Identification.

Other methods include but are not limited to:

• Valid Alabama Driver’s License (not expired or has been expired less than 60 Days)
• Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Digital Driver’s License
• Valid Alabama Nondriver ID (not expired or has been expired less than 60 Days) • Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Digital Nondriver ID
• Valid Alabama Photo Voter ID Card
• Valid State-Issued ID (Alabama or any other state)

• Examples » Valid Pistol Permit (Photo Required) » Valid AL Movement/Booking Sheet from Prison/ Jail System (Photo Required)

• Valid AL Department of Corrections Release - Temporary ID (Photo Required)
• Valid Federal-Issued ID
• Valid US Passport
• Valid Employee ID from Federal Government, State of Alabama, County, Municipality, Board, or other entity of this state
• Valid student or employee ID from a public or private college or university in the State of Alabama (including postgraduate technical or professional schools)
• Valid student or employee ID issued by a state institution of higher learning in any other state
• Valid Military ID
• Valid Tribal ID

You can apply for a FREE Alabama Voter Photo ID. You must be registered to obtain it.

You can use these forms of method to get a FREE Alabama Voter ID card but not at the polls these forms that include Photo ID

• A student ID issued by a public or private high school.  
• A student or employee ID card issued by a private university or postgraduate technical or professional school located outside the State of Alabama.
• An employee ID card not issued by a branch, department, agency, or entity of the US government, the State of Alabama, or any county, municipality, board, authority, or entity of the State of Alabama.
• Hospital/nursing home ID card.
• Wholesale club or other membership card.

Non ID verifications for an Alabama include:

• Birth Certificateⱡ
• Hospital or nursing home record
• Marriage Recordⱡ
• State or Federal Census Record
• Military Record
• Medicare or Medicaid document
• Social Security Administration document
• Certificate of Citizenship
• Official school record or transcript

Ways to Vote:

Early Voting: There is no early voting in the state of Alabama.

Voting on Election Day: The polls were open from 7am-7pm on Election Day. If you are in line before 7pm please stay in line.

Vote by Mail:

Absentee ballot applications must be delivered to the your county  Absentee Election Manager no later than 7 days prior to Election Day. Application delivered by hand must be delivered to your county Absentee Election Manager no later than 5 days prior to election.

Absentee ballots must be returned no later than noon on election day. If hand-delivered, to your county Absentee Election Manager no later than close of the business on Election (or no later than 5pm.)

Absentee Ballot Election Requirements:

• EXPECTS TO BE ABSENT FROM THE COUNTY on election day
• IS ILL OR HAS A PHYSICAL DISABILITY that prevents a trip to the polling place
• IS PHYSICALLY INCAPACITATED AND WILL NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE IN PERSON BECAUSE THEY CANNOT ACCESS THEIR ASSIGNED POLLING PLACE DUE TO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING DISABILITIES (neurological, musculoskeletal, respiratory (including speech organs), cardiovascular, or other life-altering disorder that affects his or her ability to perform manual tasks, stand for any length of time, walk unassisted, see, hear or speak) AND: A) HE OR SHE IS AN ELDERLY VOTER AGED 65 OR OLDER; OR B) HE OR SHE IS A VOTER WITH A DISABILITY
• IS A REGISTERED ALABAMA VOTER LIVING OUTSIDE THE COUNTY, such as a member of the armed forces, a voter employed outside the United States, a college student, or a spouse or child of such a person
• IS AN APPOINTED ELECTION OFFICER OR POLL WATCHER at a polling place other than his or her regular polling place
• EXPECTS TO WORK A REQUIRED SHIFT, 10-HOURS OR MORE, that coincides with polling hours
• IS A CAREGIVER for a family member to the second degree of kinship by affinity or consanguinity and the family member is confined to his or her home
• IS CURRENTLY INCARCERATED in prison or jail and has not been convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude

Ballot Procedure

The absentee ballot comes with 3 envelopes -- one plain (the secrecy envelope), one with an affidavit, or oath, printed on the outside, and one plain pre-addressed envelope, (the outer envelope). Once the voter casts the ballot, the procedure is as follows:

• Seal the ballot in the plain envelope
• Place the plain envelope inside the accompanying affidavit envelope
• Seal the affidavit envelope and complete the affidavit that is on the outside of the envelope
• Sign the affidavit and have the signature witnessed by either a notary public or two witnesses 18 years of age or older

WITNESSES OR NOTARIZATION

An absentee ballot cannot be counted unless the affidavit is notarized or has the signatures of two witnesses. Electronic or remote notarization is not permitted.

The voter has only the following legal ways to return the absentee ballot:

• forwards the absentee ballot by U.S. Mail
• forwards the absentee ballot by commercial carrier
• personally hands their own absentee ballot to the absentee election manager (or delivers by a designee in the case of emergency absentee voting)

VOTING DEADLINE

An absentee ballot returned by mail must be received by the Absentee Election Manager no later than noon on election day. If hand-delivered, the ballot must be in the office of the Absentee Election Manager by the close of business (but no later than 5 p.m.) on the day prior to the election.