J. Election records.

The following election records are closed pursuant to statutory, case law or Alabama Attorney General opinion authority:

1. Voter registration applications. Ala. Code § 17-3-52 (2006); 202 Op. Att'y Gen. Ala. 19 (Jan. 24, 1986). But see Op. Att'y Gen. Ala., No. 2005-185, 2005 Ala. AG LEXIS 150 (Aug. 23, 2005) (concluding that "[t]he boards of registrars and probate judges may provide only the names and precincts of registered voters to persons or entities," but that political parties are "entitled to obtain all voter registration information in the possession of the boards of registrars or probate judges, except for social security numbers").

2. The list of registered voters that is used at the polling place in an election, which is marked to indicate the persons voting. Advertiser Co. v. Hobbie, 474 So. 2d 93, 95 (Ala. 1985); see also Ala. Code § 17-7-16 (1995) ("The poll list shall be sealed in an envelope before the inspectors begin to count the vote and shall not be opened.").

The following election records are open pursuant to statutory, case law or Alabama Attorney General opinion authority:

1. Lists of registered voters, with names and polling places only. Ala. Code §§ 17-4-129, -130 (Supp. 2005); Op. Att'y Gen. Ala., No. 2005-185, 2005 Ala. AG LEXIS 150 (Aug. 23, 2005) (concluding that "[t]he boards of registrars and probate judges may provide only the names and precincts of registered voters to persons or entities," but that political parties are "entitled to obtain all voter registration information in the possession of the boards of registrars or probate judges, except for social security numbers."); 202 Op. Att'y Gen. Ala. 19 (Jan. 24, 1986).

2. Candidate statements, finances, organization of political committee, expenditures, contributions, etc. Ala. Code §§ 17-22A-9, -10 (1995).

3. Lists of absentee voters. Ala. Code § 17-10-5 (Supp. 2005). In a 1994 election dispute that involved the counting of absentee votes, the federal court judge in Roe v. State, CV 94-885-AH-S (S.D. Ala.), entered a permanent injunction, at the plaintiffs' request, to seal the absentee voter lists in all sixty-seven counties of Alabama in order to protect the lists from alteration or destruction. In April of 1996, The Birmingham News Company filed a petition for access to the lists, citing Alabama Code § 17-10-5 and asking the court to vacate its permanent injunction sealing the lists. By order of April 15, 1996, the court granted the motion and amended the permanent injunction to provide access to the absentee voting lists in Alabama's counties. The Court also ordered the State Attorney General's Office to "continue to protect and maintain the original absentee voting lists from the 1994 elections." Roe v. State, CV 94-885-AH-S (S.D. Ala., Apr. 15, 1996).

4. Lists from which poll workers are appointed. 210 Op. Att'y Gen. Ala. 45 (June 3, 1988).