EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Doug Jones
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Candidate Register
Definition : |
Comment : | In response to your request for comments on the draft glossary of voting system terminology, I offer the following, picking up with the letter C, having completed A and B in my previous batch of comments. As before, in each case, I am quoting the original and then offering an alternative definition. Candidate Register: Record that reflects the total votes cast for the candidate. This record is augmented as each ballot is cast on a DRE or as digital signals from the conversion of voted paper ballots are logically interpreted and recorded. Candidate Register: Originally, the mechanical register behind the face of a mechanical lever voting machine that recorded the number of times that a vote was cast for the corresponding candidate. More properly, this should be referred to as a ballot position register, since some levers are associated with yes-no propositions. Some DRE voting systems increment a candidate register each time a vote is cast for the corresponding candidate. All vote tabulating systems increment a candidate register each time they count a vote for the corresponding candidate.