Strasbourg, 14 November 2011

CDL-EL(2011)001rev
Or. Engl./Fr.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH LAW

(VENICE COMMISSION)

ELECTORAL GLOSSARY
ENGLISH - FRENCH

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Absentee voter
Absentee voting
Remote voting

Franais
Electeur votant
distance
Vote distance

Absolute majority
Abstention
Abstentionist
Accessibility

Majorit absolue
Abstention
Abstentionniste
Accessibilit

Accreditation
Activation key

Accrditation
Cl d'activation

Note

Note

Includes proxy voting, postal voting and

remote e-voting.

Comprend le vote par

procuration, le vote par
correspondance et le vote
lectronique distance.

The degree to which a product, device,

Mesure dans laquelle un
service, or environment is accessible by as produit, un appareil, un
many people as possible.
service ou un environnement
est accessible au plus grand
nombre.

An electronic card which can be used to

activate
a ballot paper on a voting computer.

Carte permettant de voter

par voie lectronique.

The alternative (or instant runoff) vote (in a

single-member constituency) is the majority
form of preferential voting; it combines in a
single ballot the effects of two (or more)
rounds of voting and is used in Australia. If
a candidate receives an absolute majority
of first-preference votes, he or she is
elected. Otherwise, the candidate
receiving the fewest first-preference votes
is eliminated, and the second preferences
on the ballot papers on which the noweliminated candidate had been placed first
are credited to the remaining candidates.
The process of elimination and
redistribution is repeated until such time as
one candidate reaches an absolute
majority or only one candidate is left.

Le vote alternatif (dans une

circonscription uninominale)
est la forme majoritaire du
vote prfrentiel, qui
combine en un seul tour les
effets de deux ou plusieurs
tours (par exemple : en
Australie). Si un candidat
obtient la majorit absolue
des voix en premire
prfrence, il est proclam
lu. Dans le cas contraire, le
candidat qui a le moins de
premires prfrences est
limin, et les deuximes
prfrences indiques sur
les bulletins de vote o le
candidat maintenant limin
avait t plac en premier
sont reportes sur les autres
candidats. Le processus
dlimination et de report des
voix est rpt jusqu ce
quun candidat atteigne la
majorit absolue ou quun
seul candidat reste en lice.

Adjourn an election (to)

Ajourner une lection
Postpone an election (to)

Administrative unit
Allocation of seats
Alternative vote

Unit administrative
Attribution des siges
Vote alternatif

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Announcement of the
results
Declaration of results
Appeal against the result
of the election
Assistance to disabled
voters
Auditing

Franais
Note
Annonce des rsultats
Proclamation des
rsultats
Contestation des
rsultats de l'lection
Assistance aux lecteurs
handicaps
Audit
An independent evaluation of a person,
organisation,
system, process, entity, project or product
which includes quantitative and qualitative
analysis.

Authentication

Authentification

Ballot

Bulletin de vote

Ballot
Ballot box
Ballot box seal
Ballot paper
Ballot paper counterfoil
Ballot paper stub
Ballot stuffing

Scrutin (tour de)

Urne
Scell durne
Bulletin de vote
Talon de bulletin de vote

Balloting procedure

Procdure de vote

Balloting round
Binominal district

Tour de scrutin
Circonscription
binominale
Dmission en blanc

Blank resignation
Block vote
Boundary
Boundary changes
Reapportionment
By-election

Note

Evaluation indpendante de
la conformit du processus
lectoral.

The provision of assurance of the claimed

identity of a person or data.

Prsentation d'une preuve

de l'identit d'une personne
ou de l'authenticit de
donnes.
The legally recognised means by which the Moyen juridiquement
voter can express his or her choice of
reconnu par lequel l'lecteur
voting option.
peut exprimer son choix
parmi les options de vote.

Bourrage d'urne

Placing an elected representative's

mandate at a party's disposal.

Mise la disposition d'un

parti du mandat d'un lu.

Systme majoritaire
plurinominal
Limite de circonscription
Redcoupage lectoral

Campaign financing
Campaign funding

Election complmentaire An election held to fill a vacancy arising

during the course of a Parliament (or
another body).
Financement de la
campagne

Campaigning
Cancelled ballot paper

Campagne lectorale
Bulletin annul

Election visant combler

une vacance qui survient au
cours d'une lgislature.

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Candidacy
Candidature
Candidate
Candidate deregistration
Candidate list
Candidate registration

Franais
Candidature

Candidature withdrawal
Candidature
Candidacy
Cast a ballot (to)
Cast a vote (to)
Central Election
Commission
Central Electoral
Commission
Certificate of residence

Retrait de candidature
Candidature
Voter
Exprimer un suffrage
Commission lectorale
centrale

Certification

Certification

Challenge a ballot (to)

Contester la validit d'un

bulletin de vote
Vote contest
Clture du scrutin
Liste bloque
The political parties determine the ranking
order of candidates on the list. The voter
endorses the entire list without any
possibility of changing the order in which
the seats are allocated to the candidates.

Challenged vote
Close of the poll
Closed list
Fixed list

Note

Note

Entering the vote in the ballot box.

Insrer un bulletin de vote

dans l'urne.

The process of confirmation that an evoting system is in compliance with

prescribed requirements and standards
and that it at least includes provisions to
ascertain the correct functioning of the
system. This can be done through
measures ranging from testing and auditing
through to formal certification. The end
result is a report and/or a certificate.

Processus visant confirmer

la conformit dun systme
de vote lectronique avec
les exigences et les normes
prescrites, prvoyant au
minimum un contrle du bon
fonctionnement du systme.
Ce processus peut aller d'un
simple test ou contrle
jusqu' une certification
officielle globale. Il en rsulte
un rapport et/ou un certificat.

Candidat
Radiation d'un candidat
Liste de candidats
Inscription des candidats

Attestation de rsidence

L'ordre des candidats sur la

liste est fix par le parti.
Llecteur vote pour
lensemble de la liste sans
pouvoir modifier lordre dans
lequel les siges sont
attribus aux candidats.

Coalition
Coalition government

Alliance de partis
Gouvernement de
coalition
Code of Good Practice in Code de bonne conduite
Electoral Matters
en matire lectorale
Collection of signatures
Gathering of signatures

Rcolte de signatures
Collecte de signatures

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Combined system
Mixed system

Franais
Systme mixte

Note
Contain technical elements usually
belonging to plurality/majority systems as
well as to PR list systems. Under combined
systems, one part of the parliamentary
seats is distributed, usually in singlemember constituencies, by
plurality/majority rule. The other part of the
parliamentary seats is allocated by a PR
formula to national or regional party lists.
For the classification of the electoral
system it is important whether both
allocation procedures are separated from
each other, as it is the case in parallel
systems, or whether they are interrelated,
as it is the case of Mixed Member
Proportional Systems.

Note
Systme reprenant des
lments techniques
caractristiques des
systmes majoritaires et des
systmes de reprsentation
proportionnelle scrutin de
liste. Dans un systme
mixte, une partie des siges
au parlement est attribue,
gnralement dans des
circonscriptions
uninominales, au scrutin
majoritaire. Lautre partie est
attribue des listes de parti
rgionales ou nationales
selon une formule
proportionnelle. Pour la
classification du systme
lectoral, il convient de se
demander si les deux
procdures dattribution sont
distinctes (comme cest le
cas avec les systmes
parallles) ou bien si elles
sont lies (comme cest le
cas avec les systmes
mixtes avec compensation
proportionnelle).

Compensatory seats

Siges compensatoires

Compensatory seats are allocated to

parties/alliances at higher tier(s) to
compensate for the disproportionality
between votes and seats share of
parties/alliances at lower tier(s).

Siges attribus aux

partis/alliances au(x)
niveau(x) suprieur(s), afin
de compenser la
disproportion entre le
pourcentage de voix et le
pourcentage de siges
obtenus par les
partis/alliances au(x)
niveau(x) infrieur(s).

Complaints and appeals

Conditional ballot

Recours
Bulletin conditionnel

Ballot of a person whose right to vote is

uncertain (must be treated separately).

Bulletin d'une personne dont

le droit de vote est incertain
(qui doit donc tre trait
part).

Conduct election (to)

Tenir des lections

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Constituency
Electoral district

Franais
Circonscription
lectorale
District lectoral

Constituency magnitude Taille des

District magnitude
circonscriptions
Size of the constituencies Taille des districts
Size of the districts
Count (of votes)
Counting (of votes)
Cross-voting
Panachage

Dcompte des voix

Dpouillement (des
suffrages)
Panachage

Cumulative vote

Cumul

Declaration of the results

Announcement of the
results
Decryption

Annonce des rsultats

Proclamation des
rsultats
Dcryptage

Deposit

Caution

Note

Note

Number of seats to be elected in

constituencies.

Nombre de siges pourvoir

dans les circonscriptions
lectorales.

This is the possibility for an elector to

compose his/her own list by selecting
candidates from several lists.

Possibilit pour un lecteur

de composer sa propre liste
en slectionnant des
candidats issus de plusieurs
listes.

System whereby more than one vote can

be given to a single candidate on a ballot
paper.

Systme qui permet de

porter plusieurs fois le nom
d'un candidat sur un bulletin.

Processus permettant de lire

The process of making encrypted
information readable (that is, unencrypted). des informations cryptes.

Deposits requirement

Obligation de verser une

caution (lectorale)
Deprivation of civic rights Privation des droits
civiques
Deprivation of electoral
Privation du droit de vote
rights
Dis(en)franchisement
Deputation
Dputation

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Direct Recording
Electronic (DRE) voting
machines

Franais
Machine voter
enregistrement
lectronique direct
(EED)

Direct vote

Suffrage direct

Disfranchisement
Disenfranchisement
Deprivation of electoral
District election
commission
District electoral
commission
District magnitude
Constituency magnitude

Privation du droit de vote

Perte du droit de vote

Divisor
Domestic observer
Double voting
Drawing lots
E-election or ereferendum

Diviseur
Observateur national
Observateur interne
Double vote
Tirage au sort
Election ou rfrendum
lectronique

Effective threshold of
representation
Natural threshold

Seuil effectif de
reprsentation
Quorum naturel

Commission lectorale
de circonscription
Commission lectorale
de district
Taille des districts
Taille des
circonscriptions

Note
Machines or computers normally installed
at a polling station, which record and
simultaneously store the vote which can be
done using a touch screen (with or without
a specific pen) or through a device which
involves pressing one or more buttons.

Note
Machines ou ordinateurs
gnralement installs dans
un bureau de vote, qui
enregistrent et mmorisent
simutanment les suffrages
exprims au moyen dun
cran tactile (utilis avec ou
sans stylet) ou dun dispositif
une ou plusieurs touches.

Number of seats to be elected in

constituencies.

Nombre de siges pourvoir

dans les circonscriptions
lectorales.

A political election or referendum in which

electronic means are used in one or more
stages.

Election ou rfrendum
politique ayant recours des
moyens lectroniques lors
d'une ou de plusieurs
tapes.
The percentage of votes needed to get one Pourcentage de voix
seat at a district level, and is mainly
ncessaire lobtention dun
dependent on the mean district magnitude sige l'chelon de la
(the average number of legislators returned circonscription ; il dpend
per district).
principalement de la taille
moyenne de la
Generally speaking, a system with small
circonscription (cest--dire
district magnitudes thus requires a
le nombre moyen d'lus par
relatively high percentage of votes per
circonscription).
district to return a legislator. Conversely,
the more seats there are to fill in the
De manire gnrale, les
districts, the lower its natural threshold.
systmes lectoraux qui
prsentent des
circonscriptions de petite
taille exigent ainsi un
pourcentage relativement
lev de voix par
circonscription pour l'lection
d'un dput. A l'inverse, plus
il y a de siges pourvoir
par circonscription, plus le
quorum naturel est bas.

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Elected body
Election Code
Electoral Code
Election Day
Election Law
Election mathematics

Franais
Organe lu
Code lectoral

Election meeting
Election observation
mission
Election observer
Election poster
Election propaganda
Electioneering
Electoral campaign
Elector
Electoral action
Electoral campaign
Electioneering
Electoral census

Runion lectorale
Mission dobservation
lectorale
Observateur lectoral
Affiche lectorale
Propagande lectorale
Campagne lectorale

Electoral Code
Election Code
Electoral college
Electoral commissioner
Electoral dispute
Electoral expenses
Electoral fraud
Electoral law
Electoral list
Voters' list
Electoral register
Voters' register

Eviter "agent lectoral" (qui

est le reprsentant d'un
parti).

The electronic means by which the votes

are stored pending being counted.

Moyen lectronique par

lequel les suffrages sont
stocks dans l'attente du
dpouillement.
Preuve d'identit
lectronique permettant
d'apposer sur des
documents en format
lectronique une signature
ayant valeur lgale.

Recensement des
lecteurs
Code lectoral
Collge lectoral
Membre d'une
commission lectorale
Contentieux lectoral
Dpenses lectorales
Fraude lectorale
Droit lectoral
Liste lectorale
Registre lectoral

Electoral officials

Personnel charg des

lections
Personnel lectoral
Processus lectoral
Quotient lectoral
Meeting lectoral
Rassemblement
lectoral
Systme lectoral
Electorat
Corps lectoral
Urne lectronique

Electronic ballot box

Avoid "proxy" (i.e representative of a

political party).

Electeur
Acte lectoral
Campagne lectorale

Administrateur
dlections

Electoral system
Electorate

Note

Jour du scrutin
Loi lectorale
Mathmatique lectorale

Electoral officer
Electoral official

Electoral process
Electoral quota
Electoral rally

Note

Electronic ID card

Pice d'identit
lectronique

Electronic voting
E-voting

Vote lectronique

An official electronic proof of identity,

making it possible to sign electronic
documents with a legal signature.

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Encryption

Franais
Cryptage

Equal suffrage
Equality of opportunity
Equality of votes
E-voting
Electronic voting
E-voting system

Suffrage gal
Egalit des chances
Egalit des voix
Vote lectronique

Exit poll

Sondage la sortie des

urnes
Vote lectronique titre A trial in which the result of the election is
exprimental
binding.

Experiment

External voting rights

Family vote

Systme de vote
lectronique

Droit de voter depuis

l'tranger
Vote familial

Fellow-candidate
Colistier
First-past-the-post system Systme majoritaire
uninominal un tour

Note
The process of transforming information
(referred to as plain text) using an
algorithm (a
cipher) and thus render it unreadable to
anyone
not possessing special knowledge, usually
referred to as a key. The result of the
process
is encrypted information (in cryptography,
referred to as ciphertext).

Note
Transformation
d'informations l'aide d'un
algorithme, non dchiffrable
par toute personne ne
possdant pas la cl.

The hardware, software and processes

which use electronic means to make a
choice between options in an election or
referendum.

Matriels, logiciels et
procdures permettant de
voter par voie lectronique.

Exprimentation d'un
systme de vote dont le
rsultat est pris en compte
(par opposition au "pilote").

A process which refers to circumstances in

which one family member decides or
influences the voting choices of other
family members.

Le vote familial permet un

membre de la famille de
donner des consignes de
vote aux autres membres ou
de voter leur place.

Under this system the country is divided

into single-member constituencies, in each
of which only one candidate is elected to
Parliament. Each elector has one vote, and
the winner is the candidate who wins the
highest number of votes in the
constituency.

Ce systme repose sur la

division du pays en
circonscriptions
uninominales. Dans chacune
de ces circonscriptions, un
seul candidat est lu au
parlement. Chaque lecteur
dispose dune voix et le
vainqueur est celui ayant
remport le plus de voix
dans la circonscription.

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Fixed list
Closed list

Franais
Liste bloque

Floor-crossing

Changement d'affiliation
Dfection

Free and fair elections

Free lists

Elections libres et
quitables
Listes libres

Gathering of signatures
Collection of signatures
Gender quotas

Rcolte de signatures
Collecte de signatures
Quotas par sexe

General elections
Gerrymandering

Elections lgislatives
Dcoupage abusif des
circonscriptions
Gerrymandering

Group voting
Highest average
Identification

Vote en groupe
Plus forte moyenne
Contrle de l'identit

Incumbent
Indecisive election
Independent candidate

Candidat sortant
Ballotage
Candidat indpendant

Note
The political parties determine the ranking
order of candidates on the list. The voter
endorses the entire list without any
possibility of changing the order in which
the seats are allocated to the candidates.

Note
L'ordre des candidats sur la
liste est fix par le parti.
Llecteur vote pour
lensemble de la liste sans
pouvoir modifier lordre dans
lequel les siges sont
attribus aux candidats.

Allow voters to cross party lines and, thus, Llecteur peut choisir parmi
les listes des diffrents partis
completely rearrange the party lists.
et ainsi remanier
compltement les listes
(panachage).

Gender quotas specify the minimum

proportion of candidacies (or seats) that
must be filled by members of one gender.

Proportion minimale de
candidatures ou de siges
devant tre rserve
chaque sexe.

The manipulation of the boundaries of an

electoral constituency so as to favour one
party, group or interest. "Gerrymander" is
based on the name of Governor Elbridge
Gerry who rearranged Massachusetts
State constituencies in the shape of a
salamander in 1812, in order to support his
party.Verb is "to gerrymander".

Dcoupage de
circonscriptions lectorales
visant favoriser un parti, un
groupe ou un groupe
d'intrt. "Gerrymander"
vient du nom du gouverneur
Elbridge Gerry, qui en 1812
dcoupa l'Etat du
Massachusetts en forme de
salamandre pour favoriser
son parti.

The verification of a persons identity.

Vrification de l'identit
d'une personne.

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Individual election
observer

Franais
Observateur lectoral
individuel

Note

As opposed to election observation

organisations or associations.
Initiative group for
nominating a candidate
Inking
International observer
Irregularity
Join a political party (to)
Kiosk voting

Largest remainder

Groupe dinitiative
proposant un candidat
Marquage des doigts (
l'encre)
Observateur
international
Irrgularit
Adhrer un parti
politique
Vote sur borne tactile
Stand-alone DREs. They can, for example,
be placed in town halls or universities or at Machines voter
enregistrement lectronique
train stations.
direct (EED) installes, par
exemple, dans les mairies,
les universits ou les gares.
Plus forts restes
In the proportional system, seats that are Dans le systme
not allocated under the first apportionment proportionnel, les siges non
attribus la premire
are allocated in decreasing order to the
rpartition reviennent, par
(competing) lists which have the largest
ordre dcroissant, aux listes
number of residual votes (remainders).
qui ont le plus grand nombre
de voix rsiduelles.

Legal threshold

Seuil lgal

Legal voting age

Legislative Assembly
Limited vote
Limited voting

Majorit lectorale
Assemble lgislative
Vote limit

List vote
Local Election
Commission
Locking the electronic
ballot box

Vote de liste
Commission lectorale
locale
Verrouillage de l'urne
lectronique

Long-term observer

Observateur long
terme
Tirage au sort
Chambre basse

Lottery
Lower Chamber
Lower House
Majoritarian system
Majority or plurality
systems

Note
Par opposition aux
organisations ou
associations dobservation
des lections.

Minimum percentage of votes that a party

needs to qualify for parliamentary
representation, by legal provision.

Pourcentage minimal de voix

quun parti doit lgalement
obtenir pour pouvoir tre
reprsent au parlement.

Majority system in which the elector may

vote for fewer candidates than there are
seats to be filled.

Systme majoritaire o
l'lecteur peut voter pour un
nombre de candidats
infrieur au nombre de
siges pourvoir.

A cryptographic process where the

electronic
ballot box is sealed just before the start of
the
election.

Processus cryptographique
qui permet de verrouiller
lurne lectronique juste
avant l'ouverture dun
scrutin.

Systme majoritaire ( la
majorit absolue)
Systmes de scrutin
Include absolute-majority and relativemajoritaire
majority systems.

Incluent les systmes la

majorit absolue et la
majorit relative.

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Majority part of
parliamentary elections

Franais
Note
Partie des lections
lgislatives se droulant
au scrutin majoritaire

Majority second round

election
Majority system in singlemember districts

Scrutin majoritaire
deux tours
Systme la majorit
absolue dans des
circonscriptions
uninominales

Mandat
Remplir un bulletin de
vote
Marked ballot paper
Bulletin rempli
Mass media
Mdias
Mathematical gain in
Accentuation de la
seats to the winning party tendance gagnante en
siges
Matrix apportionment
Rpartition matricielle

Note

This system differs from the First-past-thePost system only insofar as the winning
candidate has to get the absolute majority
of the votes (50% plus 1) in the first round
of elections. If no candidate wins an
absolute majority in the first round, either
alternative votes come into effect
(Alternative Vote) or a second round will be
held (Two-Round system). The second
round can be a run-off contest between
the two top candidates. Alternatively
several candidates participate in the
second round winning the candidate with
the most votes.

La seule diffrence entre ce

systme et le systme
majoritaire uninominal un
tour est que, pour tre lu,
un candidat doit obtenir la
majorit absolue des voix
(50 % plus 1) au premier
tour de scrutin. Si aucun
candidat ne l'obtient, le
systme du vote alternatif
est appliqu ou un second
tour est organis (systme
majoritaire deux tours). Ce
second tour peut tre un
scrutin de ballottage entre
les deux candidats les mieux
placs ou un scrutin avec
plusieurs candidats, dont le
vainqueur sera celui qui aura
obtenu le plus de voix.

Biproportional method of apportioning

seats (Switzerland).

Mthode
biproportionnelle de
rpartition des siges
(Suisse).

Mandate
Mark a ballot (to)

Mayor
Member of Parliament
Military voting
Minimum turnout

Maire
Dput
Membre du parlement
Vote des militaires
Seuil de participation
minimum

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Mixed member
proportional system
(MMP)

Franais
Systme mixte avec
compensation
proportionnelle

Note
Combines a personal vote in singlemember districts with the principle of
proportional representation. Though a
portion of the representatives are elected,
usually in single-member districts, by
majority/plurality rule, the party list vote
determines how many representatives will
be sent from each party to parliament. The
number of seats won directly by a party in
the SMDs is subtracted from the total
number of seats allocated to the party lists.
(See also combined system, parallel
system).

Note
Systme combinant le
scrutin uninominal et la
reprsentation
proportionnelle. Bien quune
partie des reprsentants soit
lue au scrutin majoritaire
(gnralement dans des
circonscriptions
uninominales), le vote pour
les listes de parti dtermine
le nombre des candidats de
chaque parti qui sigeront
au parlement. Le nombre de
siges obtenu directement
par un parti dans les
circonscriptions
uninominales est dduit du
nombre total de siges
attribu aux listes de parti.
(Voir aussi systme mixte,
systme parallle).

Mixed system
Combined system

Systme mixte

Mobile ballot box

Mobile voting
M-voting

Urne mobile
Vote avec urne mobile

Sample voting
Multi-member
constituency
Multi-member district
(MMD)
Multiple voting
Multiple-tier PR list
systems

Vote test
Circonscription
plurinominale

National voter register

Nomination paper
Nomination process

Note of election
Notice of election
Proclamation of election
Oath
One person, one vote
principle

Vote multiple
Systme de
reprsentation
proportionnelle
plusieurs niveaux
Registre lectoral
national
Dclaration de
candidature
Processus de
dsignation des
candidats
Avis d'lection

This is a partially majoritarian, partially

proportional electoral system.

Il sagit dun systme

lectoral partiellement
majoritaire et partiellement
proportionnel.

Do not confuse with "remote e-voting".

Ne pas confondre avec "vote

lectronique distance".

More than one representative is elected

per district (also multi-member
constituency).

Circonscription dans laquelle

plusieurs reprsentants sont
lus.

Provide for the proportional allocation of

seats at different levels.

Systme prvoyant
lattribution proportionnelle
de siges diffrents
niveaux.

Serment
Principe "une personne,
une voix"

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Open lists

Franais
Listes ouvertes

Note
The parties pre-structure the ranking order
of the lists. The voter may express a
preference for particular candidates by
casting a certain number of preference
votes, thus, changing the ranking order of
the list.

Note
Les partis tablissent l'ordre
d'apparition des candidats
sur les listes. Llecteur peut
toutefois les remanier (sans
panachage) en exprimant
des votes de prfrence.

Open vote
Opinion poll
Panachage
Cross-voting

Vote public
Sondage d'opinion
Panachage

Vote outside of the voting booth.

Vote hors de l'isoloir.

This is the possibility for an elector to

compose his/her own list by selecting
candidates from several lists.

Possibilit pour un lecteur

de composer sa propre liste
en slectionnant des
candidats issus de plusieurs
listes.

Paper trail
Voter verifiable audit
paper trail (VVAPT)

Systme de confirmation An independent verification system for

de vote
voting machines designed to enable voters
Trace sur papier
to check that their vote was cast correctly,
to detect possible election fraud or
malfunction, and to provide a means of
auditing stored electronic results.

Parallel system

Systme parallle

This system provides for a separate

allocation of parliamentary seats. A
proportion of the seats are distributed,
usually in single-member districts, by the
plurality or majority rule, the remainder
being allocated separately to regional or
national PR lists. The overall electoral
outcome is achieved by adding together
the two part results as determined
separately.
(See also combined system, mixed
member proportional system).

Reu papier confirmant

l'lecteur que son vote a t
correctement pris en
compte, pour viter les
risques de fraude et les
dysfonctionnements du
systme.
Dans ce systme, deux
procdures distinctes
rgissent la rpartition des
siges au parlement. Une
partie des siges est
attribue, gnralement
dans des circonscriptions
uninominales, au scrutin
majoritaire ( la majorit
absolue ou relative). Les
siges restants sont rpartis
la proportionnelle entre
des listes rgionales ou
nationales. Le rsultat final
du scrutin est obtenu en
additionnant les rsultats de
ces deux procdures.
(Voir aussi systme mixte,
systme mixte avec
compensation
proportionnelle).

Parliament
Parliamentary elections
Parliamentary
representation
Party agent

Parlement
Elections lgislatives
Dputation
Dlgu de parti

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Party block vote

Franais
Systme majoritaire
plurinominal avec liste
bloque

Party coalition

Alliance de partis
Coalition de partis
Dirigeant de parti
politique
Logo d'un parti
Importance lectorale
dun parti

Party leader
Party logo
Party magnitude

Party scrutineer
Political srutineer
Party system
Periodicity of elections

Scrutateur politique

Pilot

Pilote

Place of residence
Platform
Plurality
Plurality election

Rsidence habituelle
Programme
Majorit relative
Scrutin majoritaire un
tour
Systmes de scrutin
majoritaire

Plurality or majority
systems

Note
Tous les lus de la circonscription sont obligatoirement
de la mme liste.

Describes the number of seats a party wins Nombre moyen de siges

in a district.
par parti et par
circonscription lectorale.

Systme de partis
Priodicit des lections

Plurality system in single- Systme majoritaire

member districts
uninominal un tour

Political demonstration
Political party
Polling booth
Polling board
Polling card

Note
All those elected in the constituency must
be on the same list.

Manifestation politique
Parti politique
Isoloir
Bureau lectoral
Carte d'lecteur

A trial where the result of the election is not Exprimentation d'un

binding. Can be limited to a specific time
systme de vote dont le
frame.
rsultat n'est pas pris en
compte.

Incluent les systmes la

Include absolute-majority and relativemajorit absolue et la
majority systems.
majorit relative.
With this system, also known as First-past- Ce systme repose sur la
the-Post system, the country is divided
division du pays en
into single-member districts. In each
circonscriptions
constituency one candidate is elected to
uninominales. Dans chacune
parliament. Each voter has one vote, and de ces circonscriptions, un
the winning candidate is simply the person seul candidat est lu au
who gets most votes in the respective
parlement. Chaque lecteur
dispose dune voix et le
constituency.
vainqueur est celui ayant
remport le plus de voix
dans la circonscription.

A card entitling its holder to vote.

Carte permettant son

titulaire de voter.

Polling station
Polling station officials

Bureau de vote
Membres du bureau de
vote
Postal voting
Vote par
correspondance
Postpone an election (to) Ajourner une lection
Adjourn an election (to)

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PR list systems at the
national/regional level

Franais
Scrutin de liste
proportionnel au niveau
national/rgional

Note
With this system, parliamentary seats are
allocated proportionately at the national
level, that is, parties receive seats in
proportion to their overall national/regional
share of the vote. Usually, each party (or
alliance) presents a national/regional list of
candidates.

Note
Dans ce systme, les partis
se voient attribuer un
nombre de siges
correspondant au
pourcentage de voix obtenu
au niveau national/rgional.
Gnralement, chaque
parti/alliance prsente une
liste nationale/rgionale de
candidats.

PR list systems in multimember districts

Scrutin de liste
proportionnel dans des
circonscriptions
plurinominales

The country is divided into multi-member

districts. Each party (or alliance) presents a
list of candidates for the respective
constituencies. On the basis of the votes,
seats are distributed to party lists according
to a PR formula at the constituency level.

Le pays est divis en

circonscriptions
plurinominales. Chaque parti
(ou alliance) prsente une
liste de candidats dans
chaque circonscription. En
fonction du rsultat du
scrutin, les siges sont
rpartis entre les listes des
partis sur la base dune
formule de reprsentation
proportionnelle au niveau
des circonscriptions.

Precinct election
commission
Pre-election funds
Pre-electoral process
Preference vote

Commission lectorale
de bureau de vote
Compte de campagne
Processus prlectoral
Vote de prfrence

Preferential vote
Preferential voting

Vote prfrentiel

Preliminary results
Proclamation of election
Note of election
Notice of election
Presidential government
Proportional list system

Rsultats prliminaires
Avis d'lection

Proportional
representation
Protection of suffrage
right
Protocol of results
Results protocol

The voters can give preference vote(s) to Possibilit pour llecteur

one or several candidates on the party list. daccorder des suffrages
nominatifs un ou plusieurs
candidats sur une liste
tablie par un parti.
In a preferential electoral system, voters
choose candidates in order of preference,
putting "1" next to their first choice, "2" by
their second choice and so on.

Systme dans lequel

llecteur choisit les
candidats par ordre de
prfrence, en indiquant 1
ct de son premier choix,
2 ct de son deuxime
choix, et ainsi de suite.

Rgime prsidentiel
Scrutin de liste
proportionnel
Reprsentation
proportionnelle
Protection du droit de
vote
Procs-verbal des
rsultats

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Provisional ballot
Tendered ballot

Franais
Bulletin en suspens

Proxy

Agent lectoral

Proxy

Mandat

Note
A tendered ballot (or provisional ballot) is a
ballot provided to a voter who is recorded
as having already been
issued with a vote, but who disputes that
this is true.
Representative of political
parties/candidates in an electoral process.

Note
Un bulletin est dit "en
suspens" quand l'lecteur
est enregistr comme ayant
dj vot, ce qu'il conteste.

Reprsentant d'un parti

politique/candidat dans un
processus lectoral.
Person designated by an elector to vote in Personne dsigne par un
his stead.
lecteur pour voter sa
place.

Proxy
Proxy voting
Quorum
Re(-)run of election

Procuration
Vote par procuration
Quorum
Tenue d'une nouvelle
lection
Reallocation of seats
Redistribution des
Redistribution of electoral siges
seats
Reapportionment
Redcoupage lectoral
Boundary changes
Recall
Procdure d'invalidation The process by which elected officials may Processus par lequel un lu
des lus
be deprived of office by popular vote.
peut tre dmis de ses
fonctions par un vote
populaire.
Recount (of votes)
Recomptage (des voix)
Redistribution of electoral Redistribution des
siges
seats
Reallocation of seats
Recall referendum
Rfrendum rvocatoire
Re-election
Referendum
Registered voters
Relative majority
Remote voting
Absentee voting
Remote e-voting

Rlection
Rfrendum
Electeurs inscrits
Majorit relative
Vote distance

Vote lectronique o le
suffrage est enregistr au
moyen d'un dispositif non
contrl par une autorit
lectorale.
Repeat election
Nouvelle lection (aprs
Nouvelle lection aprs
Fresh election after an elected
invalidation)
invalidation (autrement
representative or official has been removed appele lection partielle).
from office (also called by-election).
Reserved political
Siges rservs (pour
positions (for minorities) les minorits)
Results
Rsultats
Results protocol
Procs-verbal des
Protocol of results
rsultats
Right to stand for election Eligibilit
The right of an individual to stand as a
Droit d'un individu de se
(the)
Capacit civique passive candidate and be elected.
prsenter en tant que
candidat et d'tre lu.
Right to vote (the)
Droit de vote
Capacit civique active
Vote lectronique
distance

E-voting where the casting of the vote is

done by a device not controlled by an
election official.

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Ruling party
Run in an election (to)
Run for election (to)
Stand for election (to)

Franais
Parti au pouvoir
Se prsenter une
lection

Sample ballot paper

Echantillon de bulletin de
vote
sceller
Protecting information so that it cannot be
used or interpreted without the help of
other information or means available only
to specific persons or authorities.

Sealing

Seat
Second ballot

Sige
Deuxime tour de scrutin

Secrecy of the vote

Secret du vote
Secret du scrutin
Autodtermination
Observateur court
terme
Emargement
Circonscription
uninominale

Self-determination
Short-term observer
Signature
Single member
constituency
Single member district
Single member
constituency system
Single non transferable
vote

Single transferable vote

Note

In each district, one person is elected.

Note

Protger l'information afin

qu'elle ne puisse tre utilise
ou interprte sans l'aide
d'autres informations ou
moyens dont ne disposent
que des personnes ou
autorits spcifiques.

Circonscription dans laquelle

un seul reprsentant est lu.

Scrutin uninominal
Vote unique non
transfrable
Majority system in which the elector can
vote for only one candidate in a multimember constituency.
Vote unique transfrable This is the proportional form of the
preferential vote.

Size of the constituencies Taille des

Size of the districts
circonscriptions
Taille des districts
Source code
Spoiled ballot (paper)
Stand for election (to)
Run in an election (to)
Run for election (to)
Straw poll

Code source
Bulletin nul
Se prsenter une
lection

Strike through (to)

Supplementary voters' list
Supplementary voters'
register

Biffer
Liste lectorale
complmentaire
Registre lectoral
complmentaire

Election-tmoin

Number of seats to be elected in

constituencies.

An unofficial poll or vote taken to determine

the opinion of a group or the public on
some issue. (voir aussi sample voting/vote
test /trial test poll).

Systme majoritaire o
l'lecteur peut voter pour un
seul candidat dans une
circonscription plusieurs
siges.
Il sagit de la forme
proportionnelle du vote
prfrentiel : l'lecteur
numrote les candidats par
ordre de prfrence.
Nombre de siges pourvoir
dans les circonscriptions
lectorales.

Scrutin ou vote non officiel

organis pour connatre
l'opinion d'un groupe ou du
public sur une question
donne.

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Support a candidature
(to)

Survey
Tabulation of election
results
Territorial Election
Commission
Threshold
Tendered ballot
Provisional ballot

Ticket balancing

Franais
Appuyer une
candidature
Soutenir une
candidature
Sondage
Compilation des
rsultats lectoraux
Commission lectorale
territoriale
Seuil de reprsentation
Bulletin en suspens

Tier

Equilibrage des
candidatures
Niveau

Token

Jeton d'authentification

Transfer of the
remainders at
national/regional level
Translation of votes into
seats in a multistage
process
Transparency

Report des restes au

niveau national/rgional

Note

Note

A tendered ballot is a ballot provided to a

voter who is recorded as having already
been
issued with a vote, but who disputes that
this is true.
In the same list.

Un bulletin est dit "en

suspens" quand l'lecteur
est enregistr comme ayant
dj vot, ce qu'il conteste.

Level at which seats are allocated to

parties or candidates. Electoral systems
may have one or several electoral tiers.

Niveau auquel les siges

sont attribus aux partis ou
aux candidats. Chaque
systme lectoral peut
reposer sur un ou plusieurs
niveaux.
Un moyen permettant
d'identifier l'lecteur.

A device used to authenticate the voter.

Dans une mme liste.

Distribution des siges

en plusieurs tapes
Transparence

Urne transparente
Participation lectorale
Taux de participation
Two-Round system (TRS) Scrutin majoritaire
deux tours

The concept of determining how and why

information is conveyed through various
means.

Expos trs clair des

moyens et des objectifs de
diffusion des informations.

Another term for the majority system

generally in single member districts - with a
second round, if majority is not achieved in
the first round (or not achieved for all seats
in the case of a multi-member district).

Terme dsignant le systme

majoritaire en gnral
dans des circonscriptions
uninominales avec un
deuxime tour si aucun
candidat ne parvient
obtenir la majorit absolue
au premier tour (ou si tous
les siges ne sont pas
pourvus au premier tour,
dans le cas dune
circonscription
plurinominale).

Transparent ballot box

Turnout

Universal franchise
Universal suffrage
Unlawful electoral
influence

Suffrage universel
Trafic d'influence
lectorale

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Unlocking the electronic
ballot box

Franais
Note
Dverrouillage de l'urne A cryptographic process in which the
lectronique
electronic
ballot box is unsealed just after the election
has
closed and before the results are counted.

Upper Chamber
Upper House
Usability
Validly expressed votes

Chambre haute

Village gathering
Vote

Vote buying
Voter
Voter (registration) card
Voter registration
Voters' register
Voters' list
Electoral list
Electoral register
Voter verifiable audit
paper trail (VVAPT)
Paper trail

Convivialit
Suffrages valablement
exprims
Assemble de village
Suffrage
Voix
Vote
Achat de voix
Electeur
Carte d'lecteur
Inscription des lecteurs
Liste lectorale

A list of persons entitled to vote (electors). Liste des personnes

habilites voter (lecteurs).

Systme de confirmation An independent verification system for

de vote
voting machines designed to enable voters
Trace sur papier
to check that their vote was cast correctly,
to detect possible election fraud or
malfunction, and to provide a means of
auditing stored electronic results.

Votes cast
Voting booth
Voting channel

Suffrages exprims
Isoloir
Mode de suffrage

Voting list

Liste d'margement

Voting options

Options de vote

Voting period
Voting round
Voting screen
Voting test
Winnable list position
Winner-take-all elections

Dure du scrutin
Tour de scrutin
Ecran de vote
Vote test
Position ligible
Scrutin majoritaire un
tour
Systmes fermeture
clair

Zipper systems

Note
Processus cryptographique
qui permet de dverrouiller
lurne lectronique entre la
clture du scrutin et le
dpouillement.

The way by which the voter can cast a

vote.

Reu papier confirmant

l'lecteur que son vote a t
correctement pris en
compte, pour viter les
risques de fraude et les
dysfonctionnements du
systme.

Moyen par lequel un lecteur

peut exprimer son vote.

Not to be confused with "voters' register".

Ne pas confondre avec "liste

lectorale".
The range of possibilities from which a
Eventail des possibilits
choice can be made through the casting of parmi lesquelles un choix
the vote in an election or referendum.
peut tre effectu par
l'expression d'un suffrage
lors d'une lection ou d'un
rfrendum.

Systems alternating the sexes on the party Systmes d'alternance

list.
hommes/femmes.

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