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Name :   Doug Jones
Organization :   N/A
Post Date :   9/26/2005

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Glossary Term :  Abandoned Ballot
Definition :  
Comment :  In response to your request for comments on the draft glossary of voting system terminology, I offer the following. In each case, I am quoting your original and then offering an alternative definition.  

Abandoned Ballot: Ballot that the voter did not cast into the ballot box or record vote on DRE before leaving the polling place. ...  

Abandoned Ballot: Ballot issued to a voter at the polling place in paper or electronic form that was abandoned by the voter prior to completion of the voting process by insertion in a ballot box orelectronic recording of the result. See also fled voter. ...