Title
Elections - Definitions - For the purpose of updating the definitions in Title 4, Elections.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Ordinance 17-24
Introduced by: Mayor Buckley
Referred to:
Rules and City Government Committee
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Elections - Definitions
FOR the purpose of updating the definitions in Title 4, Elections.
BY repealing and reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2024 Edition:
4.04.010
SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:
Title 4 - ELECTIONS
Chapter 4.04 - General Provisions
Section 4.04.010 - Definitions
As used in this title, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated unless a contrary meaning is clearly intended from the context in which the term appears:
1. "Approved voting device" means a paper ballot approved under Section? 4.24.060 or a voting device approved by the Anne Arundel County Board of Elections and the Maryland State Board of Elections.
2. "Absentee ballot" means a ballot not used in a polling place. Absentee ballots include "mail-in voting," as referred to in the Maryland Constitution, the Annotated Code of Maryland, and the Code of Maryland Regulations.
"Ballot" or "ballots" means paper ballots, ballots, provisional ballots or the labels which appear on the face of voting machines, whichever in context would be appropriate.
3. "Ballot" or "official ballot" includes:
a. an absentee ballot;
b. a mail-in ballot
c. a provisional ballot;
d. a document ballot; or
e. a voting machine ballot
"Ballot" or "official ballot" does not include:
a. a sample ballot; or
b. a specimen ballot.
4. "Ballot drop box" means a secure, durable, and weatherproof container officially designated by the City exclusively for voters to deposit election-related materials in person, including mail-in ballots, mail-in ballot applications, and voter...
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