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ALABAMA's STATE LAWS REGARDING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS

  • Electoral College Votes Count: 9
  • Alocation Type: winner-takes-all
  • Electors Must Pledge: yes

Elector Pledge and Electoral College Votes Allocation​

Alabama is one of the 48 states that have a winner-takes-all rule for the Electoral College. In these States, whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate), takes all of the state’s Electoral votes.Alabama is one of the states have passed laws that require their electors to vote as pledged. These laws may either impose a fine on an elector who fails to vote according to the statewide or district popular vote, or may disqualify an elector who violates his or her pledge and provide a replacement elector.

Election Code: Code of Alabama § 17-14-31

How Are Electors Selected?​

  • Political parties either nominate slates of potential Electors at their state party conventions. The certificate of nomination by political party convention for candidates for President and Vice President must be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of the convention and by the chair of the state executive or central committee of the political party making the nomination.

The certificate of nomination must include the names of the individual selected as presidential electors, and a statement signed by the electors affirming that they will cast their ballot as an elector for the candidates for President and Vice President for whom they agreed to serve as an elector.

When Do The Electors Vote?​

  • The electors of President and Vice President are to assemble at the office of the Secretary of State, at the seat of government at 12:00 noon on the second Tuesday in December next after their election, or at that hour on such other day as may be fixed by Congress, to elect such President and Vice President, and those of them present at that hour must at once proceed by ballot and plurality of votes to supply the places of those who fail to attend on that day and hour.

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