Ballot Style
Ballot Style: A ballot with a specific set of contests and candidates for a particular precinct.
Definition
A ballot with a specific set of contests and candidates for a particular precinct. Ballot styles vary based on which combination of contests and which party affiliation (in primary elections), that voters are eligible to participate in. Ballot style varies based on the contests voters are eligible to vote on and, during primary elections, their party affiliation.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
See ballot format.
- Definition 3
Ballot data that has been put into contest order for a particular precinct or precinct split and considers a particular set of voter situations.
- Definition 4
Ballot data that has been put into contest order for a particular precinct or precinct split and considers a particular set of voter situations. Voter situations include party affiliation (for closed primaries), and age of the voter (in states that permit 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections), among others.
- Definition 5
A “unique aggregation of CONTESTS that make up the ballot for a particular group of voters identified by common characteristics of residence location, party affiliation, or both. Md. Elec. Code §1-101(g). A “version of a ballot within a ju risdiction that an individual voter is eligible to vote. For example, in a county that uses esse ntially the same official ballot, a group office such as county commissioner may be divided into districts so that different voters in the same county vote for commissioner in different district s. The different versions of the county's official ballot containing only those district ba llot items one individual voter may vote are the county's different ballot styles.” N. C. Gen. St at. §163-165(3). A “concrete presentation of a