Administrator

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1. Under HAVA, the Administrator of the ADMINISTRATION, who is GENERAL SERVICE responsible for establishing a plan to make payments due the states under the statute. 2. A person who "updates and configures the voting devices and troubleshoots system problems." VVSG. Generally, an information technology specialist who has sufficient credentials to access normally protected portions of voting systems. 3. The "administrative head of a long-term care or residential care facility licensed by the state who is authorized in writing by a patient of the long-term care or residential care facility to deliver the application for an absentee ballot and to obtain or deliver the absentee ballot to the county clerk" Ark. Code §7-1-101(1).

Also known assysadmin · system administrator · admin · election admin · HAVA administrator · GSA administrator · IT admin · voting system administrator
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1. Under HAVA, the Administrator of the ADMINISTRATION, who is GENERAL SERVICE responsible for establishing a plan to make payments due the states under the statute. 2. A person who "updates and configures the voting devices and troubleshoots system problems." VVSG. Generally, an information technology specialist who has sufficient credentials to access normally protected portions of voting systems. 3. The "administrative head of a long-term care or residential care facility licensed by the state who is authorized in writing by a patient of the long-term care or residential care facility to deliver the application for an absentee ballot and to obtain or deliver the absentee ballot to the county clerk" Ark. Code §7-1-101(1).

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