Terms starting with “C”

Any "proposed county charter, any proposed amendment to a county charter, any proposition for the issuance of funding or refunding bonds of the county, any other question or propos...

A law passed by a city.

An election held other than a regularly scheduled primary or general election within a city.

The Civil Rights Acts provide some of the early federal statutory protections against discrimination in voting. Certain of these protections originated in the Civil Rights Act of 1...

Under HAVA, the Chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the DEPARTMENT (or his designee) is a member of the ADVISORS. OF JUSTICE BOARD OF

. The activities of a commander that establish, maintain, influence, or exploit relations between military forces, governmental and nongovernmental civilian organizations and autho...

A "ballot for use by a VOTER," as opposed to a CIVILIAN ABSENTEE MILITARY SERVICE BALLOT. N.J. Stat. Ann. §19:57-2.

Any "qualified and registered voter of the State who wants to vote by absentee ballot," as opposed to a VOTER. N.J. Stat. Ann. §19:57-2. The definition is incorrect MILITARY SERVIC...

Statement by a vendor declaring that a specific product conforms to a particular standard or set of standard profiles; for voting systems, NASED qualification or EAC certification...

A party whose identity is to be verified using an authentication protocol. Source: FIPS PUB 201-1; NIST SP 800-63-2

An "identified set of voting systems or voting devices sharing a specified characteristic or characteristics." VVSG. See, e.g. CLASS. 2007 INNOVATION

See classified national security information.

Security incident that occurs whenever classified data is spilled either onto an unclassified information system or to an information system with a lower level of classification. (...

Security incident that occurs whenever classified data is spilled either onto an unclassified information system or to an information system with a lower level of classification or...

Information that has been determined pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13526 or any predecessor order to require protection against unauthorized disclosure and is marked to indica...

List of words that have been pre-defined as being acceptable for transmission and may be used in conjunction with a dirty word list to avoid false positives (e.g., secret within se...

A electronic process that removes duplicate ballots from a single voter prior to counting; used by some Internet voting systems as one of three phases of counting.

A method of sanitization that applies logical techniques to sanitize data in all user- addressable storage locations for protection against simple non-invasive data recovery techni...

TESTING. Cf. TESTING. WHITE BOX BLACK BOX

Intelligible data, the semantic content of which is available. Source: ISO/IEC 7498-2 Note: Clear text data is, by definition, not encrypted.

A formal security determination by an authorized adjudicative office that an individual is authorized access, on a need to know basis, to a specific level of classified information...

Removal of data from an information system, its storage devices, and other peripheral devices with storage capacity, in such a way that the data may not be reconstructed using comm...

"Each election district and precinct shall be composed of compact and contiguous territory and shall have clearly defined and clearly observable boundaries. A 'clearly observable b...

The "election board officer designated or assigned to make the record of the election in the pollbook, tally list and challenge list in the precinct or district in which such offic...