(a) All persons who are qualified electors under the general laws of the State of Alabama and who are also members of a political party and entitled to participate in such primary election under the rules of the party shall be entitled to vote therein and shall receive the official primary ballot of that political party, and no other; but every governing body of a party shall have the right, power, and authority to fix and prescribe the political or other qualifications of its own members and shall, in its own way, declare and determine who shall be entitled and qualified to vote in such primary election or to be candidates therein or to otherwise participate in such political parties and primaries. The qualifications of electors entitled to vote in such primary election shall not necessarily be the same as the qualifications for electors entitled to become candidates therein. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prohibit any state executive committee of a party from fixing such qualifications as it may deem necessary for persons desiring to become candidates for nomination to offices at a primary election.
(b) A political party may require all poll lists for primary elections to state at the top thereof that by participating in the primary election a voter shall indicate a preference for the party holding the primary, and will support the nominees of that party in the general election, and that he or she is qualified under the rules of such party to vote in its primary election. No person shall be eligible to participate in the primary unless he or she signs the poll list and thereby certifies to the truth of the statement.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 13 - Primary Elections.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 17-13-1 - "Primary Election" Defined.
Section 17-13-3 - Time and Place for Holding Primary Elections.
Section 17-13-4 - Payment of Compensation of Officers and Other Expenses of Elections.
Section 17-13-6 - Only Qualified Candidates to Be Listed on Ballots.
Section 17-13-7.1 - Persons Entitled to Vote in Primary Runoff Elections
Section 17-13-8 - Ballots, Stationery, and Supplies; Pledge Printed on Ballot; Spoiling of Ballot.
Section 17-13-8.1 - Instant Runoff Primary Elections in Certain Situations.
Section 17-13-9 - Duty of Judge of Probate to Furnish and Deliver Election Supplies.
Section 17-13-10 - Ballots to Be Secret and Inviolate.
Section 17-13-11 - Watchers at Polls.
Section 17-13-12 - Returning Officers.
Section 17-13-13 - Counting of Votes; Results to Be Posted for Public Inspection.
Section 17-13-15 - When Voted Ballots Container and Records of Election Container May Be Opened.
Section 17-13-17 - Canvass, Tabulation, and Declaration of Results.
Section 17-13-19 - Procedure When One Candidate Declines to Enter Second Primary.
Section 17-13-20 - Determination of Majority of Votes Cast.
Section 17-13-22 - Certification of Nominees to Judge of Probate.
Section 17-13-23 - Filling of Vacancies in Nominations.
Section 17-13-24 - Voting More Than Once.
Section 17-13-25 - Changing or Altering Returns of Primary Elections.
Section 17-13-26 - Additional Duties of Sheriff, Chief of Police, Etc.