Terms starting with “C”
848 election security terms starting with C, with direct links to full definitions and source-backed context.
Controlled Cryptographic Item (cci) Equipment
VerifiedA telecommunications or information handling equipment that embodies a CCI component or CCI assembly and performs the entire COMSEC function without dependence on host equipment to...
Controlled Interface
VerifiedA boundary with a set of mechanisms that enforces the security policies and controls the flow of information between interconnected information systems. Source: NIST SP 800-37 Rev...
Controlled Space
VerifiedThree-dimensional space surrounding information system equipment, within which unauthorized individuals are denied unrestricted access and are either escorted by authorized individ...
Controlled Unclassified Information (cui)
Information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls pursuant to and consistent with law, regulations, and government-wide policies, excluding information Classified Na...
Controller
VerifiedA "component of a direct recording electronic voting system that allows the poll worker to add information to an to allow a voter to access the correct ballot style." Wash. ACCESS...
Controlling Authority
VerifiedOfficial responsible for directing the operation of a cryptonet and for managing the operational use and control of keying material assigned to the cryptonet. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)
Controlling Authority (conauth)
VerifiedThe official responsible for directing the operation of a cryptonet using traditional key and for managing the operational use and control of keying material assigned to the crypto...
Controlling Contest
VerifiedA in which the voter's choice determine the voter's ability to vote in a second CONTEST contest, referred to as the CONTEST. It is sometimes seen in a CONTROLLED RECALL ELECTION. I...
Controlling Domain
VerifiedThe domain that assumes the greater risk and thus enforces the most restrictive policy.
Controls
VerifiedA device, procedure, or subsystem, which when properly designed and implemented, ensures correctness of operation in a system. Common controls include completeness of processing ch...
Convenience Voting
VerifiedIn general, the ability to vote at one's convenience, e.g. at a time and/or place of one's choosing. It often is used as a synonym for or but also EARLY VOTING ABSENTEE VOTING, ref...
Convention
Verified1. A "meeting of delegates of a political party held for the purpose of designating the candidate or candidates to be endorsed by such party in a primary of such party for state or...
Conversion Subsystem
VerifiedSoftware "resident in the voting or ballot counting device. It control the readying of equipment and software for election use, pre-election validation testing, and readiness testi...
Cookie
VerifiedA piece of state information supplied by a Web server to a browser, in a response for a requested resource, for the browser to store temporarily and return to the server on any sub...
Coop
VerifiedCONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS.
Cooperative Key Generation
VerifiedElectronically exchanging functions of locally generated, random components, from which both terminals of a secure circuit construct traffic encryption key or key encryption key fo...
Cooperative Key Generation (ckg)
VerifiedElectronically exchanging functions of locally generated, random components, from which both terminals of a secure circuit construct traffic encryption key or key encryption key fo...
Cooperative Remote Rekeying
VerifiedSynonymous with manual remote rekeying.
Coordinated
VerifiedMade in cooperation, consultation or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate, a candidate's authorized committee, or their agents, or a political party commit...
Coordinated Election
VerifiedAn "election where more than one political subdivision with overlapping boundaries or the same electors holds an election on the same day and the eligible electors are all register...
Coordinated Party Expenditure
VerifiedA special type of expenditure that can be made only by a national or state political party committee in connection with the general election of a candidate. These expenditures are...
Coordinating Authority
Verified. A commander or individual assigned responsibility for coordinating specific functions or activities involving forces of two or more Military Departments, two or more joint force...
Coordinator Of Elections
VerifiedThe in Tennessee, appointed by the STATE. CHIEF ELECTION OFFICIAL SECRETARY OF
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