Terms starting with “A”

A number assigned to an individual item of COMSEC material to facilitate its handling and accounting. Source: NSA/CSS Manual Number 3-16 (COMSEC)

Formal recognition that a is competent to carry out VOTING SYSTE,M TESTING LABORATORY specific tests or calibrations or types of tests or calibrations. Under HAVA, the power to acc...

Formal declaration by a designated accrediting authority (DAA) or principal accrediting authority (PAA) that an information system is approved to operate at an acceptable level of...

(1) Authoritative body that performs accreditation. (2) An independent organization responsible for assessing the performance of other organizations against a recognized standard,...

1. Identifies the information resources covered by an accreditation decision, as distinguished from separately accredited information resources that are interconnected or with whic...

Product comprised of a System Security Plan (SSP) and a report documenting the basis for the accreditation decision. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Product comprised of a system security plan (SSP) and a report documenting the basis for the accreditation decision. Rationale: The RMF uses a new term to refer to this concept, an...

A laboratory approved by a majority of the to perform ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION testing, certification, decertification and recertification of voting system hardware ands soft...

Synonymous with Designated Accrediting Authority (DAA). See also Authorizing Official. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Synonymous with designated accrediting authority (DAA). See also authorizing official. Rationale: The Risk Management Framework uses a new term to refer to this concept, and it is...

To total the contents of individual memory cards or other storage devices from individual voting machine to produce jurisdiction-wide vote totals.

The ability of a system to capture and tabulate votes with precision. " [P]recision in calculations and outputs ." Cal. Proc. §1802. The ability of a voting system to "capture, rec...

The "county or city clerk shall appoint three persons, not more than two of whom are of the same political party, to serve as an accuracy certification board." Nev. Rev. Stat. §293...

The "ability of the system to capture, record, store, consolidate and report the specific selections and absence of selections, made by the voter for each ballot position without e...

A "test conducted to determine that the program and the computer being used to tabulate the results of the election count the votes in the manner prescribed by the [electronic voti...

Stakeholder that acquires or procures a product or service. Source: NIST IR 7622, ISO/IEC 15288 (adapted)

The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 as amended (52 U.S.C. §30101-§30146).

the UK's national fraud and internet crime reporting centre, providing a central point of contact for the public and businesses. (UK 2016)

A composite of a which includes the simples states VOTING STATE VOTE-CAPTURE DEVICE IN and READY. VVSG. See PERIOD. USE 2007 ACTIVE

A pass-phrase, personal identification number (PIN), biometric data, or other mechanisms of equivalent authentication robustness used to protect access to any use of a private key,...

Programmed device that creates credentials necessary to begin a voting session using a specific ballot style. Examples include electronic poll books and card activators that contai...

A device used to activate a voting machine for voting. Ark. Code §7-5-517(d).

An attack on the authentication protocol where the Attacker transmits data to the Claimant, Credential Service Provider, Verifier, or Relaying Party. Examples of active attacks inc...

Electronic documents that can carry out or trigger actions automatically on a computer platform without the intervention of a user. Source: NIST SP 800-28