The Secretary of State may implement a uniform system of electronic voting in any county participating in the pilot project for establishing a uniform system of electronic voting provided for in Act 91-562. The Secretary of State may provide through the pilot project for the administration and educational support of a uniform system to enable counties to immediately and electronically obtain all vote totals and to enable a county to immediately transfer by electronic means all election vote totals, and other totals from a participating county directly to the office of the Secretary of State on a timely and economic basis.
Ala. Code § 17-7-27 (1975)