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Glossary Term | Definition |
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e-voting | |
early voting | Broadly, voting conducted before election day where the voter completes the ballot in person at a county office or other designated polling place or ballot drop site prior to election day. |
early voting ballot board | |
early voting by touch screen | |
early voting clerk | |
early voting touch-screen sites | |
elderly voters | |
elect | |
elected | |
elected member | |
elected officials | |
elected official’s campaign activity | |
elected to fill unexpired term | |
election | A formal process of selecting a person for public office or of accepting or rejecting a political proposition by voting. |
election administration process | |
election assessment | |
election authority | |
election ballot | |
election board | |
election calendar | |
election campaign | |
election clerk | |
election code | |
election commission | |
election contest | |
election contribution | |
election databases | Data file or set of files that contain geographic information about political subdivisions and boundaries, all contests and questions to be included in an election, and the candidates for each contest. |
Election Day; election day | |
election definition | Definition of the contests and questions that will appear on the ballot for a specific election. |
election district | Contiguous geographic area represented by a public official who is elected by voters residing within the district boundaries. The district may cover an entire state or political subdivision, may be a portion of the state or political subdivision, or may include portions of more than one political subdivision. |
election division | |
election equipment | |
election form | |
election fraud | |
election inspector | |
election judge |