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Terms starting with “R

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

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Run Off

Verified

Election to select a winner following a primary or a general election in which no candidate in the contest received the required minimum percentage of the votes cast. The two candi...

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Run Off Election

Verified

Election to select a winner following a primary or a general election in which no candidate in the contest received the required minimum percentage of the votes cast. The two candi...

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Run Off Primary

Verified

The election to select a winner in a primary, in which if no candidate in the contest received the required minimum percentage of the votes cast the two candidates receiving the mo...

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Run Off Results

Verified

Tallies of votes cast in a run-off election after the polls have been closed for voting.

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Runner

Verified

"A representative, known as a 'runner,' of each of the parties shall be allowed to come to the table at frequent intervals for the purpose of taking whatever list or memoranda the...

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Running For Office

Verified

Person contending in a contest for office. A candidate may be explicitly presented as one of the choices on the ballot or may be a write-in candidate.

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Running Mate

Verified

A person running together with another person on two closely associated political offices in an election. For example, President and Vice President, and (in some states) Governor a...

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Runoff Election

Election to select a winner following a primary election or a general election , in which no candidate in the contest received the required minimum percentage of the votes cast . T...

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Runoff Primary

Verified

A subsequent held if the winner of the first primary does not win a PRIMARY ELECTION statutory percentage of the vote. Texas Code §41.007. In Arkansas, a PRIMARY. GENERAL See also...

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Rural Route

Verified

A mail delivery route in a rural area where mail is typically delivered to a box number for destinations without street addresses, as opposed to a P.O. Box.

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