California Code of Regulations
Title 2 - Administration
Division 7 - Secretary of State
Chapter 4.8 - Recounts
Article 1 - General Provisions
Section 20351 - Definitions

(a) "Election data media device" means a card, cartridge, USB flash memory stick or other digital storage device that stores ballot information and/or voting results information in a non-volatile form.

(b) "Batches" means any grouping of the ballots for the purpose of tabulation. A batch may be comprised of ballots wholly from one precinct or from multiple precincts.

(c) "Chain of Custody" means a process used to track the movement and control of all election materials related to the conduct of a recount through its lifecycle by documenting each person and organization who handles the recount election materials, the date and time it was collected or transferred, and the purpose of the transfer. A break in the chain of custody refers to a period during which control of the recount election materials is uncertain and during which actions taken with the recount elections materials are unaccounted for or unconfirmed.

(d) "Governing board" includes, but is not limited to, a city council or a county board of supervisors.

(e) "Interested party" means the requestor and those persons identified in Elections Code section 15628.

(f) "Observer" means any representative of a qualified political party, representative of a bona fide association of citizens, or other person who wishes to observe the recount proceedings subject to space limitations.

(g) "Outcome of the election" means the candidate(s) identified as the elected official(s) or the final results of the measure ("yes" or "no") based on certified results of the election pursuant to Elections Code section 15632.

(h) "Qualified political party" means only a political party qualified to participate in the last primary election.

(i) "Relevant material" includes but is not limited to unvoted ballots, vote-by-mail and provisional ballot envelopes, language translation files pre- and post-election logic and accuracy testing plans and results, polling place event logs, precinct tally results, central count tally results and consolidated results in a structured, non-proprietary format, chain of custody logs, duplication logs.

(j) "Requestor" means a voter who requests a recount or any other voter who, during the conduct of a recount and for 24 hours thereafter, requests the recount of additional precincts not recounted as a result of the original request.

(k) "Vote tabulating device" means any piece or combination of pieces of equipment, other than a voting machine operated by levers or other mechanical means, that compiles a total of votes cast by means of electronic data processing and ballot card sorting, ballot card scanning, or paper ballot scanning.

(l) "Voter" means any elector who is registered under the Elections Code.

(m) "Vote for One" means an election for an office in which the voter may select only one candidate.

(n) "Vote for Multiple" means an election for an office in which the voter may select two or more candidates.

(o) "Voting system redundant vote data" means each and every electronic record of election results for ballots cast in a contest subject to recount on one or more voting system units that is stored in any part of the voting system other than the jurisdiction's central electronic repository of results for that election. Some voting systems do not have redundant vote data on all tabulating or recording devices.