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Glossary Term | Definition |
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random audit | |
ranked order voting | |
ratification | |
ratify | |
re-elect | |
re-election | |
reappointment | |
reapportion | |
reapportionment | |
recall | |
recall ballot | |
recall election | |
recall grounds | |
recall issue with options | Process that allows voters to remove elected representatives from office prior to the expiration of their terms of office. The recall may involve not only the question of whether a particular officer should be removed, but also the question of naming a successor in the event that there is an affirmative vote for the recall. |
recall of public officer | |
recall petition | |
recall process | |
recall statement | |
recall vote | |
receipt | |
receiving boards | |
recertification | Re-examination, and possibly retesting of a voting system that was modified subsequent to receiving national and/or state certification. The object of this is to determine if the system as modified still conforms to the requirements. |
reconcile | For example, "reconcile paper records to electronic record" and "reconcile rejected ballots to rejected voter." |
record | |
recorder | |
recount | Retabulation of the votes cast in an election. |
redistrict | |
referenda | |
referendum | Process whereby a state law or constitutional amendment may be referred to the voters before it goes into effect. |
referendum petitions | |
referendum question | |
referendum vote | |
reform | |
Reform Party | |
register | |
register by mail |