§ Miss. Code § 23-15-461Definitions

As used in this subarticle, unless otherwise specified:
(a) "Automatic tabulating equipment" includes apparatus necessary to automatically examine
and count votes as designated on ballots or ballot cards and tabulate the results.
(b) "Ballot card" means a tabulating card on which votes may be recorded by means of
punching or marking.
(c) "Ballot labels" means the cards, papers, booklet, pages or other material, containing the
names of offices and candidates and the statements of measures to be voted on, which are placed
on the voting device.
(d) "Ballot" means a paper ballot on which votes are recorded, or alternatively may mean
ballot cards and ballot labels.
(e) "Chad" means the part of a ballot card that is designed to be punched out by the voter.
(f) "Counting center" means one or more locations used for the automatic counting of ballots.
(g) "Electronic voting system" means a system in which votes are recorded on a paper ballot
or ballot cards by means of marking or punching, and such votes are subsequently counted and
tabulated by automatic tabulating equipment at one or more counting centers.
(h) "Voting device" means an apparatus which the voter uses to record his votes by marking
or punching a hole in a paper ballot or tabulating card, which votes are subsequently counted by
electronic tabulating equipment.