Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 183 - RULES OF STATE ELECTION BOARD › Chapter 183-1 - GEORGIA ELECTION CODE › Subject 183-1-12 - PREPARATION FOR AND CONDUCT OF PRIMARIES AND ELECTIONS › Rule 183-1-12-.02 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
(1) As used in this
				rule, the term:
(a) "Ballot" shall have the
				meaning set forth in O.C.G.A. §
										21-2-2.
(b) "Ballot scanner" shall have the meaning
				set forth in O.C.G.A. §
										21-2-2.
(c) "Ballot Style" shall mean the specific
				offices, candidates, and questions displayed on an electronic ballot marker or
				paper ballot for voters according to their assigned precinct.
(d) "Electronic ballot marker" shall have the
				meaning set forth in O.C.G.A. §
										21-2-2.
(e) "Election management system" is an
				electronic system that contains databases for elections, allows for the
				creation of ballots, generates ballot scanner memory cards, and computes
				tabulated results, amongst performing other election functions.
(f) "Electronic poll book" shall mean an
				electronic device that contains a list registered voters with sufficient
				information to look up voters, check them in, and encode voter access cards
				that bring up the correct ballot on an electronic ballot marker.
(g) "Election Superintendent" or
				"superintendent" means a county board of elections and registrations, a county
				board of elections, a judge of the probate court, or an elections supervisor or
				director so designated by a county board or judge of the probate court. For
				municipal elections, the term shall include the municipal counterparts set
				forth in O.C.G.A. §
										21-2-2.
(h) "Enclosed space" shall mean that area
				within a polling place enclosed with a guardrail or barrier closing the inner
				portion of such area so that only such persons as are inside such guardrail or
				barrier can approach within six feet of the ballot box, voting compartments,
				voting booths, voting machines, electronic ballot markers, or ballot
				scanners.
(i) "Opening of the
				Polls" shall mean the commencement of voting in a particular primary, election,
				or runoff. Opening of the polls does not refer to the unlocking or opening of
				the doors of the polling place. Similarly, the term "Closing of the Polls"
				shall mean the cessation of voting in a particular primary, election, or runoff
				and not the locking or closing of the doors of the polling place.
(j) "Poll officer" shall have the meaning set
				forth in O.C.G.A. §
										21-2-2.
(k) "Polling place" shall have the meaning
				set forth in O.C.G.A. §
										21-2-2.
(l) "Precinct" shall have the meaning set
				forth in O.C.G.A. §
										21-2-2.
(m) "Voter Access Card" shall mean the
				electronic card issued to a voter which is inserted into an electronic ballot
				marker to bring up the voter's correct ballot.
(n) "Zero Tape" shall mean a tape printed out
				by a ballot scanner unit which shows that no votes have been tabulated by the
				scanner for that election.
(o)
				"Voting system" or "voting system components" shall include electronic ballot
				markers, printers, ballot scanners, election management systems, electronic
				poll books, and voter access cards.