EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Doug Jones
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/26/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Ballot Image
Definition : |
Comment : | In response to your request for comments on the draft glossary of voting system terminology, I offer the following. In each case, I am quoting your original and then offering an alternative definition. Ballot Image: (1) Electronically produced record of all votes cast by a single voter. (2) Record of all votes produced by a single voter. ... Ballot Image: Record of all votes cast by as voter on a single ballot (sense 1). This term was originally introduced in the context of direct-recording electronic voting machines to refer to the electronic image of the voter's ballot, distinguishing it from a tangible ballot that the voter could inspect and verify. The term has been used more broadly to refer to secondary records of the ballot, such as paper copies made without direct supervision by the voter, e.g. facsimilie copies of original ballots.