TrustVoting Atlas

As
used in this chapter:

(1) “Candidate”
means a candidate for nomination or election to any elective office.

(2) “Contestant”
means any person who files a petition of contest under ORS 258.036.

(3) “Contestee”
means:

(a) In a contest
of the nomination of a person for an office or the election of a person to an
office, all candidates for the nomination or office, other than a candidate who
is a contestant.

(b) In a contest
of the approval or rejection of a measure proposed by initiative petition, the
chief petitioner of the petition, unless the chief petitioner is a contestant,
and any other person involved in the cause of the contest.

(c) In a contest
of the result of a recall election, the public officer subject to the recall.

(d) If the cause
of the contest is ORS 258.016 (6) or (7), the county clerk.

(4) “County clerk”
means the county clerk or the county official in charge of elections.

(5) “Elector”
means an individual qualified to vote under section 2, Article II, Oregon
Constitution.

(6) “Full recount”
means a recount of all the precincts in which votes were cast for the
nomination or office for which a candidate received a vote or on any measure
that appeared on the ballot.

(7) “Measure”
includes any of the following submitted to the people for their approval or
rejection at an election:

(a) A proposed
law.

(b) An Act or
part of an Act of the Legislative Assembly.

(c) A revision of
or amendment to the Oregon Constitution.

(d) Local,
special or municipal legislation.

(e) A proposition
or question.

(8) “Partial
recount” means a recount conducted in a number of precincts equal to the
greater of:

(a) Five percent
of the precincts in which votes were cast for the nomination or office for
which a candidate received a vote or on any measure that appeared on the
ballot; or

(b) Three
specified precincts in which votes were cast for the nomination or office for
which a candidate received a vote or on any measure that appeared on the
ballot. [Formerly 251.015; 1983 c.392 §7; 1985 c.186 §1; 1995 c.607 §52; 2001
c.965 §28; 2009 c.511 §12]



258.010 [1953 c.397 §1; repealed by 1965
c.586 §34]



258.015 [1965 c.586 §3; repealed by 1979
c.190 §431]



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