§ 1-104. Definitions. The terms used in this chapter shall have the\nsignificance herein defined unless another meaning is clearly apparent\nin language or context. 1. The term "political unit" means the state or\nany political subdivision thereof or therein.\n 2. The term "unit of representation" means any political unit from\nwhich members of any committee or delegates to a party convention shall\nbe elected as provided in this chapter.\n 3. The term "party" means any political organization which, excluding\nblank and void ballots, at the last preceding election for governor\nreceived, at least two percent of the total votes cast for its candidate\nfor governor, or one hundred thirty thousand votes, whichever is\ngreater, in the year in which a governor is elected and at least two\npercent of the total votes cast for its candidate for president, or one\nhundred thirty thousand votes, whichever is greater, in a year when a\npresident is elected.\n 4. The term "party position" means membership on a party committee or\nthe position of delegate or alternate to a party convention.\n 5. The term "party officer" means one who holds any party position or\nany party office whether by election, appointment or otherwise.\n 6. The term "committee" means any committee chosen, in accordance with\nthe provisions of this chapter, to represent the members of a party in\nany political unit.\n 7. The term "designation" means any method in accordance with the\nprovisions of this chapter by which candidates for party nomination for\npublic office or for election to party position may be named for the\npurpose of any primary election.\n 8. The term "official ballot" refers to the paper ballot on which the\nvoter casts his vote, or the face of a voting machine as prepared for\nthe voter to cast his vote at any election held in accordance with the\nprovisions of this chapter.\n 9. The terms "primary" or "primary election" mean only the mandated\nelection at which enrolled members of a party may vote for the purpose\nof nominating party candidates and electing party officers.\n 10. The terms "uncontested office" and "uncontested position", used in\nconnection with a primary election of a party, mean an office or\nposition for which the number of candidates designated does not exceed\nthe number to be nominated or elected thereto by the party, and for\nwhich no valid petition of enrolled members of the party requesting an\nopportunity to write in the name of an undesignated candidate has been\nfiled.\n 11. The term "nomination" means the selection in accordance with the\nprovisions of this chapter of a candidate for an office authorized to be\nfilled at an election.\n 12. The term "independent body" means any organization or group of\nvoters which nominates a candidate or candidates for office to be voted\nfor at an election, and which is not a party as herein provided.\n 13. The term "independent nomination" means nomination by an\nindependent body.\n 14. Words of masculine gender include the feminine except where the\nprovision clearly applies to only one sex.\n 15. The term "veterans' hospital" means any sanitarium, hospital,\nsoldiers' and sailors' home, United States Veterans' Administration\nHospital, or other home or institution, which is used, operated and\nconducted exclusively for the care, maintenance and treatment of persons\nserving in the military or naval service or coast guard of the United\nStates or the state of New York, or persons who (a) were honorably\ndischarged from such service, or (b) have a qualifying condition, as\ndefined in section one of the veterans' services law, and have received\na discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such service, or\n(c) are a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in section one of the\nveterans' services law, and have received a discharge other than bad\nconduct or dishonorable from such service.\n 16. The term "county legislative body" shall mean the elected\ngovern
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