Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 21-A > Chapter 3 > Subchapter 9 - Automatic Voter Registration

• Any election: means primary and general elections and referenda, whether regular or special. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
• Bureau: means the Department of the Secretary of State, Bureau of Motor Vehicles. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 231
• Central voter registration system: means a single electronic information system and database for voter registration information maintained by the Secretary of State and used by all municipal jurisdictions in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
• 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.
• may: when used in this Title, is used in a permissive sense to grant authority or permission, but not to create duty, to act in the manner specified by the context. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 7
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Pending voter registration record: means the electronic record created by a source agency that contains the personal identification information, including name, age, citizenship and legal residence, and other information required by section 152 of a person who is in the process of being considered for voter registration. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 231
• Proof of voter eligibility: means reliable evidence of a person's eligibility to vote and must include proof of age, citizenship and residence. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 231
• Register: means to enlist as a voter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
• Registrar: means the registrar or deputy registrar of voters of a municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
• Residence: means that place where the person has established a fixed and principal home to which the person, whenever temporarily absent, intends to return. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
• Source agency: means the bureau and a state agency or department or other entity designated as a source agency pursuant to section 233, subsection 1 that, as part of the normal course of business of that entity, collects documents that contain personal identification information that provides proof of voter eligibility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 231
• United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Voter: means a person registered to vote. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1