VOTER REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
STATE OF
ALABAMA
Registration Deadline Voter registration is closed during the ten days preceding an election. Applications must be postmarked or delivered by the eleventh day prior to the election.
6. ID Number. Your social security number is requested (by authority of the Alabama Supreme Court, 17-4-122).
7. Choice of Party. Optional: You do not have to register with a party if you want to take part in that partys primary election, caucus, or convention.
8. Race or Ethnic Group. You are required to fill in this box; however, your application will not be rejected if you fail to do so. See the list of choices under the Application Instructions for Box 8 (on page 2).
9. Signature. To register in Alabama you must:
be a citizen of the United States
be a resident of Alabama and your county at the time of registration
be 18 years old before any election
not have been convicted of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary (or have had your civil and political rights restored)
not currently be declared mentally incompetent through a competency hearing
swear or affirm to "support and defend the Constitution of the U.S. and the State of Alabama and further disavow any belief or affiliation with any group which advocates the overthrow of the governments of the U.S. or the State of Alabama by unlawful means and that the information contained herein is true, so help me God"
Mailing address:
Office of the Secretary of State
P.O. Box 5616
Montgomery, AL 36103-5616