Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 3506 - Voting and Tabulating Equipment

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Automatic tabulating equipment: means a machine or electronic device, or interconnected or interrelated machines or electronic devices, that will automatically examine and count votes recorded on ballots. See Ohio Code 3506.01
• Ballot: means the official election presentation of offices and candidates, including write-in candidates, and of questions and issues, and the means by which votes are recorded. See Ohio Code 3506.01
• Bond: includes an undertaking. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Direct recording electronic voting machine: means a voting machine that records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that can be actuated by the voter, that processes the data by means of a computer program, and that records voting data and ballot images in internal or external memory components. See Ohio Code 3506.01
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Internet: means the international computer network of both federal and nonfederal interoperable packet switched data networks, including the graphical subnetwork known as the world wide web. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Marking device: means an apparatus operated by a voter to record the voter's choices through the marking of ballots enabling them to be examined and counted by automatic tabulating equipment. See Ohio Code 3506.01
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
• state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Voter verified paper audit trail: means a physical paper printout on which the voter's ballot choices, as registered by a direct recording electronic voting machine, are recorded. See Ohio Code 3506.01
• Voting machines: means mechanical or electronic equipment for the direct recording and tabulation of votes. See Ohio Code 3506.01