"Applicant" is any individual, public official, public body,
trust, partnership, committee, association, corporation, vendor, user or any
other organization or group of persons seeking to use or market any voting
system or voting system component.
"Commercial Off the Shelf" or "COTS" is any commercial, readily
available hardware devices (such as printers or personal computers) or software
products (such as operating systems, programming language compilers, or
database management systems).
"Computer Code" consists of, but is not limited to, ballot
counting source code, table structures, modules (compiled source code), program
narratives, installation instructions, operations instructions, data flows,
deployment platforms, compatibility considerations for hardware, software and
firmware, and any other documentation relevant to the structure and operation
of the ballot counting system.
"Preliminary Review" shall consist of a full technical and
procedural review of the proposed voting system component and of no more than
three different and separate preaudited ballot counting tests created by the
Board's staff. The purpose of the review and testing is to determine the
proposed system's ability to adhere to ballot management procedures required by
statute and rule and to tabulate ballots and report results as prescribed by
the Election Code [10 ILCS 5 ].
"User" is any individual, public official, public body, trust,
partnership, committee, association, corporation or any other organization or
group of persons owning, using, or contracting for the purchase or use of any
voting system or voting system component involved in the election
process.
"Vendor" is any individual, trust, partnership, committee,
association, corporation or any other organization or group of persons
contracting to supply any voting system or voting system component involved in
the election process.
"Voting System" or "Electronic Voting System" means that
combination of equipment and programs used in the casting, examination and
tabulation of ballots and the cumulation and reporting of results by electronic
means.
