Terms starting with “P”

Counting of ballots in the same precinct in which those ballots have been cast.

Optical scan technology that permits voters to mark their paper ballots within a precinct and submit the ballot for tabulation. Precinct Count systems provide overvote/undervote pr...

(PCO) System by which votes are recorded in a voting location by means of marks made in voting targets designated on one or both sides of a ballot card or series of cards. An optic...

System by which votes are recorded in a voting location by means of marks made in voting targets designated on one or both sides of a ballot card or series of cards. An optical sca...

A voting system that tabulates ballots at the polling place. These systems typically tabulate ballots as they are cast and print the results after the closing of the polls. With an...

A "person appointed to serve in a precinct as one (1) of the following: (1) Inspector. (2) Judge. (3) Poll clerk. (4) Assistant poll clerk. (5) Election sheriff." Ind. Code §3-5-2-...

The "precinct election returns, voted ballots, and other records of an election," as described in Texas Elec. Code §66.002.

An official appointed to "be present in the polling place of the precinct during all elections and act as the personal agent and deputy of the election commissioner. The precinct i...

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

An official register of electors entitled to vote at an election, used to verify and check in voters prior to issuing them a ballot.

A subdivision of a precinct which arises when a precinct is split by two or more election districts that may require different ballot styles.

A record that must be produced by the for purposes of ELECTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Its detailed contents are specified in the VVSG, but fundamentally it ties the unique AUDIT. 2007 d...

Cf. CENTRAL TABULATION.

The "capability to examine a ballot through electronic means and tabulate the votes at one or more counting places." 10 Ill. Comp. Stat. §5/24B-2.

An "electronic optical scanning ballot tabulation system or other tabulator designated by the director to electronically count ballots." Alaska Stat. §15.60.010(25). A "TABULATOR t...

The official responsible for the proper and orderly voting of the technology used at a polling location.

Voting before or on Election Day where the voter completes the ballot in person at a designated polling site that is overseen by election officials or poll workers.

A voting system in which initial tabulation is performed at the PLACE, as opposed to a POLLING system. CENTRAL COUNT

SCANNER. An "optical ballot scanner that is located in the PRECINT-COUNT OPTICAL precinct and into which optical scan voter-verified paper ballots, marked either by hand by the vot...

A device that counts ballots at a instead of at a central station. An POLLING LOCATION advantage of precinct count scanning is that a voter who has overvoted can be alerted and giv...

1. The "extent to which a given set of measurements of the same sample agree with their mean. Thus, precision is commonly taken to be the standard deviation estimated from sets of...

A wheel-shaped multiposition switch on the Hart InterCivic eSlate used by the voter make DRE selections and obviating the need for a SCREEN. TOUCH

A county whose election board decisions are subject to the approval of the State Board of Elections. 31 Ky. Admin. Regs. §4:080.

A sign that an attacker may be preparing to cause an incident. Source: NIST SP 800-61 Rev 2 See indicator.