Canvass
Canvass: (1) Aggregating or confirming every valid ballot cast and counted, which includes absentee, early voting, Election Day, provisional, challenged, and…
Definition
(1) Aggregating or confirming every valid ballot cast and counted, which includes absentee, early voting, Election Day, provisional, challenged, and uniformed and overseas citizen. (2) Solicit votes.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
Compilation of election returns and validation of the outcome that form the basis of the official results.
- Definition 3
The process of compiling, reviewing, and validating election returns that forms the basis of the official results by a political subdivision.
- Definition 4
The “the entire process of determining that the votes have been counted and tabulated correctly, culminating in the authentication of the official election re sults.” N. C Gen. Stat. §163-182.5. “Compilation of election returns and validation of the outcome that forms the basis of the official results by political subdivision.” 2005 VVSG GLOSSARY. A “review of the election results by the board of county commissi oners or the mayor and city council or the justices of the Supreme Court, by which any erro rs within the election results are officially noted and the official election results are d eclared.” Nev. Rev. Stat. §293.032. Similarly, Ark. Code §7-1-101(4). The “process of examining, in detail, a ballot, groups of ballots, election subtotals, or grand totals in order to determine the final official returns of a primary, special, or general election and in order to safeguard the in tegrity of the election process.” Wash. Admin. Code §434-240-010(4). The “audit function that culmin ates in the final certification of official election returns.” Wyo. Stat. §22-1-102(a)(xl). See also RECANVASS.