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Name :   Doug Jones
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Post Date :   9/27/2005

Glossary Comments
Glossary Term :  Cast Ballot, Ballot
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.

Cast Ballot: Ballot in which voter has taken final action in the selection of candidates and measures and submits the ballot to the appropriate jurisdiction.  

Cast Ballot: Ballot (sense 1) on which the ...  

-- Note, is brings out a mistake in my earlier definition of Ballot (1). Where I had said this:  

Ballot: (1) Physical record of the selections made by a voter in all of the races or contests in a particular election. ...  

I should have said:  

Ballot: (1) Physical record on which the voter may record his or her selections in all of the races or contests in a particular election. ...