EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Doug Jones
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Count
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. Count: Process of totaling votes. --Comment: May I not use the term count in any other way? I would strongly recommend that, wherever this term is used with this definition, it be written as "vote count" in order to avoid precluding, for example, my use of the word in contexts such as "a count of the number of ballots" or "a count of the number of voters".