Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes > 10 ILCS 5 > Article 24C - Direct Recording Electronic Voting Systems

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Ballot: means an electronic audio or video display or any other medium, including paper, used to record a voter's choices for the candidates of their preference and for or against public questions. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• Ballot configuration: means the particular combination of political subdivision or district ballots including, for each political subdivision or district, the particular combination of offices, candidate names and public questions as it appears for each group of voters who may cast the same ballot. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• Ballot image: means a corresponding representation in electronic or paper form of the mark or vote position of a ballot. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• ballot screen: means the display of material containing the names of offices and candidates and public questions to be voted on. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• Central counting: means the counting of ballots in one or more locations selected by the election authority for the processing or counting, or both, of ballots. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• Computer operator: means any person or persons designated by the election authority to operate the automatic tabulating equipment during any portion of the vote tallying process in an election, but shall not include judges of election operating vote tabulating equipment in the precinct. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• County board: means the board of county commissioners in counties not under township organization, and the board of supervisors in counties under township organization, and the board of commissioners of Cook County. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.07
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Edit listing: means a computer generated listing of the names of each candidate and public question as they appear in the program for each precinct. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• equipment: includes apparatus necessary to automatically examine and count votes as designated on ballots, and data processing machines which can be used for counting ballots and tabulating results. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• In-precinct counting: means the recording and counting of ballots on automatic tabulating equipment provided by the election authority in the same precinct polling place in which those ballots have been cast. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.36
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Marking device: means any device approved by the State Board of Elections for marking a ballot so as to enable the ballot to be recorded, counted and tabulated by automatic tabulating equipment. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• Permanent paper record: means a paper record upon which shall be printed in human readable form the votes cast for each candidate and for or against each public question on each ballot recorded in the voting system. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• program: means the set of operating instructions for the automatic tabulating equipment that examines, records, displays, counts, tabulates, canvasses, or prints votes recorded by a voter on a ballot or that displays any and all information, graphics, or other visual or audio information or images used in presenting voting information, instructions, or voter choices. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• Redundant count: means a verification of the original computer count of ballots by another count using compatible equipment or other means as part of a discovery recount, including a count of the permanent paper record of each ballot cast by using compatible equipment, different equipment approved by the State Board of Elections for that purpose, or by hand. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• Separate ballot: means a separate page or display screen of the ballot that is clearly defined and distinguishable from other portions of the ballot. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2
• State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• sworn: shall be construed to include the word "affirmed. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.12
• system: means the total combination of mechanical, electromechanical or electronic equipment, programs and practices used to define ballots, cast and count votes, report or display election results, maintain or produce any audit trail information, identify all system components, test the system during development, maintenance and operation, maintain records of system errors and defects, determine specific system changes to be made to a system after initial qualification, and make available any materials to the voter such as notices, instructions, forms or paper ballots. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24C-2