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Failure Rate

Failure Rate: Ratio of the number of failures that occur to the volume of data processed.

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Ratio of the number of failures that occur to the volume of data processed.

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The “ratio of the number of FAILURES that occur to the volume of data processed. … Failures may be divided, for example, into user-serviceable and non-user-serviceable categories, and

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NIST Election Terminology Glossary, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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NIST Election Glossary
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Electronic Voting Glossary
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