Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 15 - ELECTED OFFICIALS › Division 30 - Secretary of State › Chapter 10 - Voting Machines (Electronic) › Section 15 CSR 30-10.010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment removes outdated terms.
(1) Election authority shall mean the county
				clerk or board of election commissioners. The election authority shall be the
				chief custodian of the electronic voting system and its components and shall be
				responsible for the proper maintenance and all necessary preparation for
				elections. The election authority is authorized to appoint as many custodians
				as deemed necessary and is permitted by law.
(2) Electronic voting system is a system of
				casting votes by use of marking devices, and counting votes by use of automatic
				tabulating or electronic data processing equipment and includes computerized
				voting systems.
(3) Automatic
				tabulating equipment shall mean a system consisting of a mechanical or
				electronic ballot reader, or both, an electronic central processing unit and
				visually readable tabulated results of the voters' markings on the ballot.
				Integral to the system is a capacity to determine the number of ballots
				processed and the votes cast on each candidate and each ballot question by
				precinct, jurisdiction total, and any other needed total such as ward or
				township. Absentee totals shall be determinable.
(4) Program shall mean the prepared election
				computer program or the section of the computer program that contains the
				information for the particular election being tabulated. Additionally, the term
				shall extend to all programs in the system including but not limited to system
				software, utilities software, and compilers, which may be used during the
				operation of the application software which tabulates the ballots. The program
				may be stored on electronic, optical, or paper storage media that utilizes
				air-gapped tabulating or data-processing equipment.
(5) Ballot is a ballot which is voted by
				making a mark which can be tabulated by automatic tabulating equipment. All
				types of automatic or electronic system ballots shall be known as ballots
				regardless of size or stock thickness.
(6) Ballot label is the paper, booklet, page,
				or other material containing the names of all offices, candidates, and
				questions to be voted on.
(7)
				Systems which use a single unit for the ballot and the ballot label shall
				conform to the rules for both.
(8)
				Accessible voting station is a voting station equipped for individuals with
				disabilities.
(9) Audio ballot is a
				ballot in which a set of offices and issues is presented to the voter in
				audible, rather than visual form.
(10) Audit trail is recorded information that
				allows election officials to review the activities that occurred on the voting
				equipment to verify or reconstruct the steps followed without compromising the
				ballot or voter secrecy.
(11)
				Ballot marking device is any approved device which will enable the votes cast
				on paper ballots to be counted by automatic tabulating equipment.
(12) Ballot style is the particular set of
				contests and issues to appear on the ballot for a particular election district,
				their order, the list of ballot positions for each contest or issue, and the
				binding of candidate names and issues to ballot positions.
(13) Cast vote record is the permanent record
				of all votes cast by a single voter whether in electronic, paper, or other
				form.
(14) Election management
				system is a set of processing functions and databases within a voting system
				that define, develop, and maintain election databases, perform election
				definition and setup functions, format ballots, count votes, consolidate and
				report results, and maintain audit trails.
(15) Electronically assisted ballot marking
				device is a device that provides assistance to voters who are visually impaired
				or who have difficulty correctly marking by hand a preprinted paper ballot that
				is to be counted in optical scan systems. The device marks, or assists the
				voter to mark, selected choices on a previously inserted, preprinted paper
				ballot. The device then provides audio, tactile, or visual feedback to the
				voter with regard to the choices the voter has made on the ballot. The
				completed ballots are later tabulated on the same unit that processes other
				paper ballots and provides a paper audit trail.
(16) Logic and accuracy testing is the
				testing of the tabulator setups of a new election definition to ensure that the
				content correctly reflects the election being held (i.e., contests, candidates,
				number to be elected, ballot styles, etc.) and that all voting positions can be
				voted for the maximum number of eligible candidates and that results are
				accurately tabulated and reported.
(17) Paper cast vote record is a paper record
				of all votes cast by a single voter that can be directly verified by the voter.
				It is the record that is created from the voter verifiable audit record after
				the selections are verified and the vote is cast by the voter.
(18) Precinct count voting system is a voting
				system that tabulates ballots at the polling place. These systems typically
				tabulate ballots as they are cast and are capable of printing the results after
				the close of polling.
*Original authority: 115.225, RSMo 1977, amended 1993,
					 1995, 2002.