California Regulations § 20811 Definitions.Version dated Oct. 30, 2024

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

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

(d) "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.

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

(f) "Relevant material" includes but is not limited to unvoted ballots, vote by mail and provisional ballot envelopes, voting system redundant vote data, ballot definition files, language translation files and the central database or other electronic repository of results for the election in which the contest subject to recount occurred, election data media devices, audit logs, system logs, 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, surveillance video recordings and chain of custody logs, including logs of security seals and access to election-related storage areas.

(g) "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.

(h) "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.

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

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

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

(l) "Voter verified paper audit trail paper copy" does not include a voter verified paper audit trail paper copy from a direct recording electronic voting machine that was used only with a ballot definition or ballot definitions that did not include the contest being recounted.

(m) "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.