EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Doug Jones
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Election Databases
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 D, having completed A through C in previous comments. As before, in each case, I am quoting the original and then offering an alternative definition. 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 Database: Data file or set of files that contain the Election Definition, the Ballot Configurations derived from that Election Definition, and after the election, the precinct summary data and event logs for the election and also the ballot images where these are retained by the election machinery. -- Comment: The original made no use of all the other relevant definitions in the glossary. The glossary needs to do this!