Terms starting with “C”

The county in a state or territory in which, at the time a person or receives services, the person is living and has established on ongoing presence for a permanent or indefinite p...

In Vermont, any "judge of probate, assistant judge of the superior court, state's attorney, sheriff, high bailiff, and justice of the peace." 17 Vt. Stat. Ann. §2103(10).

A county official, in some states, who is responsible for election administration for a county.

A body analogous to the in other jurisdictions. VOTER REGISTRATION COMMISSION

A political subdivision of a county established to provide a single public service (such as water supply or sanitation) within a specific geographic area.

In Texas, the official responsible for administering the county's voter registration program.

A form of used in California under which the ordering of candidates differs BALLOT ROTATION among supervisorial districts. Cf. STATE-LEVBL ROTATION.

A duly authorized and trustworthy individual who has been officially designated to transport/carry material, and if the material is classified, is cleared to the level of material...

A time-phased or situation-dependent combination of risk response measures. See risk response. Source: NIST SP 800-39

Result of measures used to obfuscate message externals to resist traffic analysis. Source: CNSSI No. 1200

A technique to reduce the risks of eavesdropping by obscuring the information that is transmitted. (SP 800-98) (NISTIR)

An attribute associated with an assessment method that addresses the scope or breadth of the assessment objects included in the assessment (e.g., types of objects to be assessed an...

A jurisdiction that meets the coverage criteria set forth in Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act and is therefore subject to certain special provisions of the Act, such as the precl...

An unintended or unauthorized intra-system channel that enables two cooperating entities to transfer information in a way that violates the system's security policy but does not ex...

Determination of the extent to which the security policy model and subsequent lower- level program descriptions may allow unauthorized access to information.

A system feature that enables one system entity to signal information to another entity by directly or indirectly writing a storage location that is later directly or indirectly re...

Testing performed using covert methods and without the knowledge of the organization's IT staff, but with the full knowledge and permission of upper management. (SP 800-115) (NISTI...

A system feature that enables one system entity to signal information to another by modulating its own use of a system resource in such a way as to affect system response time obse...

CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK.

1. Evidence or testimonials that support a claim of identity or assertion of an attribute and usually are intended to be used more than once. 2. Evidence attesting to one's right t...

A "determination of what is appropriate for a given voter and BALLOT CONFIGURATION creation of the necessary for ACTIVATION." VVSG. VOTING CREDENTIALS BALLOT 2007

(CSP) A trusted entity that issues or registers Subscriber tokens and issues electronic credentials to Subscribers. The CSP may encompass Registration Authorities (RAs) and Verifie...

A trusted entity that issues or registers subscriber tokens and issues electronic credentials to subscribers. The CSP may encompass registration authorities (RAs) and verifiers tha...

Physical or electronic document(s) that proves a voter's identity; used in B. C. local and provincial government elections and most other jurisdictions to authenticate a voter prio...