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Election Terms & Definitions ELECTION JUDGE/COORDINATOR HANDBOOK | GENERAL ELECTION 2020 FORMS INDEX ELECTION TERMS Affidavit - A written statement about someone’s unit. The Judges will activate a voter card with the Black Return Bag - The large black bag with qualifications to vote. The statement is also signed audio ballot. Voters who use a sip-and-puff device handles and wheels. A Judge uses this bag to return by the person, who promises that the information can also use the audio ballot and headphones. materials to the Receiving Station. There is a list of is true. the materials that shows what needs to go in the Ballot Box - The box that holds the votes. The Black Return Bag at the end of the day. This list can Ambiguous Marked Ballot - A mark was ballot box has three parts: top, bottom, and the be found inside the Black Return Bag. The Judge detected that was not clear enough to show the main part, which collapses down. The Judges put must seal the Black Return Bag before leaving the voter’s intent. together the ballot box. Once put together, the polling place. ballot box has two sections: the front section for Application for Ballot (Form 14) - The form a ballots with write-in votes and the back section for Blank Ballot - A ballot with no votes cast on it or voter signs to apply for a ballot. It contains the ballots without write-in votes. The ballot scanner a ballot with marks that the ballot scanner cannot signature of the voter and information about the will separate ballots into the front and back read. identity of the voter. The voter and the Election sections of the ballot box. The ballot scanner sits Judge must complete the form. The voter cannot on top of the ballot box. Campaign-Free Zone - The area outside the receive a ballot until the Judge makes sure that the polling place room where electioneering is not Form 14 is complete and the Judge processes the Ballot Missing Judge’s Initials - The ballot allowed. This area must be marked off by the two voter in the e-poll book. scanner will not accept any ballots without a blue cones found in the ESC. Judge’s initials. Ballots printed by the touchscreen Appointment Period - The two year period that a must be initialed by a Judge before the voter Card Activator - The device attached to the e-poll Judge is considered active. The Judge must attend a inserts their ballot into the scanner. book stand that will activate voter cards for the training class at the beginning of each appointment touchscreen voting unit. period. During this period, the Circuit Court of Ballot Scanner - The machine that records the Cook County confirms the Judge. votes cast on the paper ballots. The ballot scanner Cast Button - A green button on the front of the will reject ballots that aren’t initialed by a Judge or ballot scanner. The Judge uses this button to cast Assistance in Voting - The act of helping a person are overvoted, blank, or defective. It is sometimes ballots that contain overvotes or are blank, if the to vote. Voters with a physical disability or voters called a scanner in this handbook. voter wants to cast the ballot despite the issue. The who cannot speak, read, or write English may Judge will explain that the voter is choosing to cast ask for help voting. Use the Consolidated Voter’s Ballot Style - The three digit number that tells the the ballot instead of getting a Affidavit (Form 1). Mark boxes 3 or 4 if you or Judges which ballot the Judges should give the new ballot. someone else helps a voter cast a ballot. voter. The ballot style is in the voter’s record in the e-poll book. Certificate of Results (Form 80) - The form that Audio Ballot with Headphones - A type of ballot Judges use to record the number of votes cast. that voters with visual impairments can use to vote Ballot Viewer - A plastic magnifier that makes the Judges place a copy of the Official Results Tape privately and independently. It includes an audio print on the Official Ballots larger. from the ballot scanner with each copy of ballot and headphones on the touchscreen voting Form 80. Bilingual Judge - A Judge who can provide language assistance to voters who don’t speak English. 85 ELECTION TERMS Challenge - When a Judge, poll watcher, other Electioneering - When someone tries to persuade Key Judge - A Judge who gets an envelope with voter, or anyone else objects to the Judges about a other people at the polling place about who or the key to the ESC and other supplies such as person’s identity or qualification to vote. what to vote for. It also includes wearing buttons the seal cutters. The Key Judge will work with or badges or having signs for a candidate, party, or the Coordinator to contact all the Judges before Combination Polling Place - A polling place that ballot question. None of this is allowed within the Election Day. has more than one (1) precinct. Each precinct has Campaign-Free Zone at the polling place. its own Judges but may share Coordinator(s). This Letter of Authority - A special letter that allows is different than a split precinct. Election Supply Carrier (ESC) - The big blue a poll watcher to look at and touch election box on wheels. It is delivered to the polling place materials on Election Day. Credential - An official document all poll before Election Day. It holds all the equipment, watchers must show poll workers to be in the supplies, and materials for the election. Lowered Voting Booth - A voting booth designed polling place. For government officials, it may be for voters who use a wheelchair or need to sit in their official government badges. Electronic Poll Books (e-poll books) - The tablets a chair while voting. Voters who use the lowered used to find and register voters on Election Day. voting booth will vote on a paper ballot. The Curbside Voting - A type of voting used by a voter There are two (2) e-poll books in each precinct. lowered voting booth also has a chair for voters who is unable to enter a polling place. Two Judges, Place one e-poll book with accessories at Station who cannot stand for long periods of time. The one from each political party, will bring the voting #1. Place another e-poll book with accessories at booth can also be used by any other voters. materials to the voter if the voter can’t make it the Registration Table. Judges use e-poll books to to the polling place. Judges are never allowed to process and register voters. You can look up voters Memory Cards - They are located in the front of go 50 ft or more from the entrance of the polling in the e-poll book registered within the precinct the ballot scanner behind the administrator and place in curbside voting. and anywhere in the City of Chicago. Any voter poll worker doors. They record all votes cast. The who receives a ballot should be checked in on the memory cards will already be in the ballot scanner Defective ballot - A ballot that was misprinted or e-poll book. when it is delivered to the polling place. Then, has a tear and the ballot scanner cannot read it. the Judges will transmit the results, remove the Federal Office Only Ballot - A type of ballot for a memory cards and place inside White Return Box. Early Voting - A time when voters can vote before voter who meets all three of these requirements: Election Day. This time is from the 15th day before • Moved more than 30 days before the election Modem - A device that the Judges attach to the the election through the Monday before the • Still lives in the City of Chicago ballot scanner that securely connects the scanner election. A voter does not need a reason to vote • Doesn’t want to update their registration to our server. The Judges must attach the modem early. People who voted during Early Voting can’t The voter can choose to vote for only federal in the moring for a connection test, and then again vote in the polling place on Election Day. They candidates. Can only be voted on the touchscreen. after the polls close to transmit results. already voted. Hybrid Ballots - Ballots that have candidates for Morning Zero Tape - Receipt from the ballot Election Day Registration - The process to register either the Democratic OR Republican parties and scanner that shows how many votes have been voters on Election Day. The voter must: also the Green Party. cast. • Have the correct voter registration identification • Be in the correct precinct Judicial Privacy - The privacy of judicial judges Official Ballots - The paper ballot that has the • Have lived at the registration address for at least and their families. They are allowed to ask that names of the candidates, offices, and questions on 30 days before the election their address be hidden. In some cases you will not the ballot. The voters use a ballot marker to fill see the address of these voters. Judicial privacy in the circles for the candidates, offices, and does not apply to Election Judges. questions they choose. 86 ELECTION JUDGE/COORDINATOR HANDBOOK | GENERAL ELECTION 2020 ELECTION TERMS Official Results Tape - The tape that the ballot Receiving Station - The place where all the Stand-by Central - A place during Election Day scanner prints after the polls are closed.
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