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Terms starting with “P

500 election security terms starting with P, with direct links to full definitions and source-backed context.

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Poll Books

Verified

Documents that contain a list of registered voters within a jurisdiction, which poll workers use to verify voters' registration status. Voters typically must enter their signatures...

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Poll Challenger

Verified

A CHALLENGER, in North Dakota. A "representative of a political party who may make a request of an election board member to challenge any person offering to vote. The challenge per...

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Poll Checker

Verified

In North Dakota, a representative of a political party who observes voting to monitor TURNOUT.

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Poll Clerk

Verified

An in Indiana and West Virginia who hands out to voters. Ind. ELECTION OFFICIAL BALLOTS Code. §3-6-6-2.

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Poll Hours

Verified

The opening and closing times for voting at polling locations.

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Poll List

"'Poll list' means the list which is compiled by election officials on election day showing the names and addresses of electors who actually cast votes in an election." Wisc. St. §...

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Poll Manager

Verified

ELECTION. Likewise in Georgia. MANAGER OF

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Poll Officer

The official responsible for the proper and orderly voting at a polling location or an election process.

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Poll Report

Verified

A report listing the collated election results for a given LOCATION. POLLING

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Poll Watcher

A "party worker who remains in the voting place outside the guardrail enclosure for the purpose of viewing the voting process, keeping track of the voters who have voted or challen...

Election Administration2 sources

Poll Worker

The official responsible for the proper and orderly voting at a polling location or an election process.

Election Administration3 sources

Poll Workers

Verified

People who staff and operate polling places. Duties of poll workers include setting up the polling place, including placing voting equipment in operation; checking in voters; maint...

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Poll Site Ballot Counting Device

Verified

"[A] device programmed to accept voted ballots at a polling place for the purpose of tallying and storing the ballots on election day." Wash. Rev. Code §29A.04.115.

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Poll Site Voting

Verified

VOTING. IN-PERSON

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Pollbook Audit

Verified

A post-election comparison of the with other records, whose purpose is to verify POLL BOOK that: "The total number of ballots recorded by the voting system in some location is the...

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Pollbook Holder

Verified

In Indiana, a local OFFICIAL, to whom the voter announces her name on appearing at ELECTION the polls.

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Polling Location

Verified

Physical address of a polling place.

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Polling Place

The "building where residents of a voting precinct vote or where absentee voting is conducted." Utah Code §20A-1-102(46). "[T]he room or rooms where voters apply to vote and mark a...

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Polling Place Assignment

Verified

The location of the facility where a voter will be on the official list of voters authorized to cast a ballot. Polling places are based on a voter's residential address and the sit...

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Polling Place Officer

Verified

The official responsible for the proper and orderly voting at a polling location or an election process.

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Polling Place Voting

Verified

Voting in which the voter goes to a specific location to vote, as opposed to ABSENTEE VOTING VOTING. OR INTERNET

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Polling Site

Verified

A "location selected by the county board of election commissioners where votes are cast." Ark. Code §7-1-101(18). Also PLACE. POLLING

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Polls

Verified

A place where voting takes place.

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Polls Switch

Verified

A switch or button on a voting machine, normally protected by a seal, that is used to open or close the polls during an actual election.

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