Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 20A > Chapter 16 > Part 2 - Administration of Military and Overseas Voting

• Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Ballot: means the storage medium, including a paper, mechanical, or electronic storage medium, that records an individual voter's vote. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• Covered voter: means an individual who:
       (1)(a) satisfies Utah's voter eligibility requirements that do not relate to residency;
       (1)(b) is not registered to vote in a state other than Utah;
       (1)(c) is absent from the United States on the day of the election; and
       (1)(d)

            (1)(d)(i) is a resident of Utah under Section 20A-2-105, but is absent from the United States on election day because the individual:

                 (1)(d)(i)(A) is a uniformed service voter; or

                 (1)(d)(i)(B) temporarily resides outside the United States;

            (1)(d)(ii) is a foreign United States citizen who:

                 (1)(d)(ii)(A) before establishing a principal place of residence outside the United States, established a principal place of residence in Utah; and

                 (1)(d)(ii)(B) did not, after leaving Utah, register to vote in a state other than Utah or establish a principal place of residence in a state other than Utah; or

            (1)(d)(iii) is a foreign United States citizen:

                 (1)(d)(iii)(A) who has never registered to vote in a state other than Utah;

                 (1)(d)(iii)(B) who has never established a principal place of residence in the United States; and

                 (1)(d)(iii)(C) whose parent, legal guardian, spouse, or domestic partner established the parent's, legal guardian's, spouse's, or domestic partner's most recent United States principal place of residence in Utah. See Utah Code 20A-16-102
• Election: means a regular general election, a municipal general election, a statewide special election, a local special election, a regular primary election, a municipal primary election, and a special district election. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• Federal write-in absentee ballot: means the ballot described in the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, Utah Code 20A-16-102
• 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.
• LEA: means :
       (6)(a) a school district;
       (6)(b) a charter school; or
       (6)(c) the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. See Utah Code 53E-1-102
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Regular general election: means the election held throughout the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year for the purposes established in Section 20A-1-201. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, or American Samoa. See Utah Code 20A-16-102
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• State board: means the State Board of Education. See Utah Code 53E-1-102
• State superintendent: means the state superintendent of public instruction appointed under Section 53E-3-301. See Utah Code 53E-1-102
• Swear: includes "affirm. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Utah Code: means the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code, as amended, unless the text expressly references a portion of the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code as it existed:
       (42)(a) on the day on which the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code was enacted; or
       (42)(b)

            (42)(b)(i) after the day described in Subsection (42)(a); and

            (42)(b)(ii) before the most recent amendment to the referenced portion of the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Voter: means an individual who:
       (79)(a) meets the requirements for voting in an election;
       (79)(b) meets the requirements of election registration;
       (79)(c) is registered to vote; and
       (79)(d) is listed in the official register book. See Utah Code 20A-1-102