Terms starting with “C”

An official responsible for overseeing absentee voting or a portion of the absentee voting process.

A position in West Virginia equivalent to CLERK, having responsibility for voter COUNTY registration and election administration.

Court clerks often have statutory roles in elections. For example, in Alabama, the clerk of the circuit court administers and is a member of the BOARD. Ala. ABSENTEE VOTING APPOINT...

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Click fraud is a type of Internet fraud that primarily targets banner advertisements paid per click. Click fraudsters may operate manually or with the help of programs. These progr...

Individual or process acting on behalf of an individual who makes requests of a guard or dedicated server. The client's requests to the guard or dedicated server can involve data t...

A system entity, usually a computer process acting on behalf of a human user, that makes use of a service provided by a server. (SP 800-32) (NISTIR)

Enables customers to access primary services nodes (PRSNs) to obtain key management infrastructure (KMI) products and services and to generate, produce, and distribute traditional...

Client-side refers to operations, code (like JavaScript), or rendering that occurs directly on a user's local device (browser or app) rather than on a remote server. It represents...

Also known as Information Technology Management Reform Act. A statute that substantially revised the way that IT resources are managed and procured, including a requirement that ea...

The onboard clock of an shall not drift more than one minute within a 15- ELECTRONIC DEVICE hour period of the clock is set. VVSG.

The last day that a citizen can register to vote or update their voter registration before an election.

A form of List PR in which electors are restricted to voting only for a party or political grouping, and cannot express a preference for any candidate within a party list. See also...

A primary in which only voters registered with a specific party are eligible to vote for candidates of that party. 26 Okla. Stat. §1-104. A "PRIMARY in which the voter ELECTION rec...

Environment providing sufficient assurance that applications and equipment are protected against the introduction of malicious logic during an information system life cycle. Closed...

The storage of classified information in properly secured General Services Administration-approved security containers. Source: ICS 700-1

A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and serv...

The "territory of the general election voting place or precinct in which the political party club is formed ..., whether a ward or township or a subdivision thereof." S. C. Code §7...

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT.

Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative

Computer Network Operations

A nation in an ad hoc defense arrangement with the U.S. Source: CNSSI No. 4005 (COMSEC)

1. A set of instructions for a computer. Source: www.merrianwebster.com 2. System of communication in which arbitrary groups of letters, numbers, or symbols represent units of plai...

The act of reverse-engineering the malicious program to understand the code that implements the software behavior. For example, when looking at compiled programs, the process invol...