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Adjudication

Adjudication: Process of resolving cast ballots to reflect voter intent.

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Definition

Process of resolving cast ballots to reflect voter intent. Common reasons that ballots require adjudication include: write-ins, overvotes, marginal machine-readable mark, having no contest selections marked on the entire ballot, or the ballot being unreadable by a scanner.

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Definition 2

Process of resolving flagged cast ballots to reflect voter intent.

Source: NIST WebType: semantic
Definition 3

A process for determining whether a ballot has been marked in an acceptable manner and for whom the ballot has been marked.

Source: Independent Panel on Internet Voting ReportType: external
Definition 4

Process of resolving flagged cast ballots to reflect voter intent. Common reasons for flagging include:

Source: NIST Election GlossaryType: standard

Sources

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Glossary of Election Terms, U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
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NIST Election Terminology Glossary, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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Independent Panel on Internet Voting Report
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EAC Glossary of Terms
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EAC Glossary of Election Terms
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NIST Election Glossary
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