2006 Alabama Code - Section 17-9-34 — Statements of canvass.

The authority charged with the holding of an election or primary election where voting machines shall be used shall cause to be prepared a statement of canvass of a form to be approved by the judge of probate, in the necessary number as now required to be used by law, such statement of canvass to conform with the type of voting machine to be used, and the designating number and letter, if the construction of the voting machine is such as to require a designating number and letter, of each candidate (or proposition) shall be printed next to the candidate's name on the statement of canvass. Said statements of canvass shall be permanently preserved by the probate judge for use in the event of contests. In the event the construction and design of the voting machine is such as to permit photographing the name of the candidate or the question, together with the total vote cast on their respective counters, said photograph may be taken and kept as a permanent record for use in event of a contest.

(Acts 1939, No. 292, p. 443; Code 1940, T. 17, §113.)