Terms starting with “C”

Cyber Security Education Consortium

NIST Cybersecurity Frameowrk

Computer Security Resource Center

Center for Systems Security and Information Assurance

The capacity within some electoral systems for voters to cast more than one vote for a favoured candidate.

A "listing of vote totals at a given point in tabulation, showing overall totals, as opposed to precinct-by-precinct totals." 2004 Pasco ESP 6.

A vote variation used in a multiple seat contest where a voter is permitted to distribute a specified number of votes to one or more contest options. Two major variations are used...

The practice of bringing voting equipment or a ballot out to an automobile parked near a polling place so that a disabled person may vote. Some jurisdictions specifically allow cur...

The process of fixing an error or providing information to an elections office when your ballot has originally been rejected for counting.

The time period authorized by law or regulations that a voter has to provide required information to allow a ballot to be counted that was originally rejected. This process is ofte...

A ballot that was originally rejected for an error or because it was missing required information but was ultimately counted because the voter corrected the error or supplied the r...

A method of tabulating WRITE-INS, in which only write-ins for candidates already listed in the ballot are counted. The opposite method I used in some states. In Pennsylvania, for e...

The address where you are current living.

The "person charged with the storing and caring for the voting machines when not in use in elections." Ala. Code §17-9-1(11). Likewise, Ga. Code §21-2-2(4). In Virginia, "custodian...

In the NICE Framework, cybersecurity work where a person: Addresses problems, installs, configures, troubleshoots, and provides maintenance and training in response to customer req...

A diagonal cut at the corner of a to facilitate stacking in a single orientation. BALLOT

A type of in which ballots of different voters are maintained on separate sheets of VVPAT paper. There are two subdivisions of such systems. In some, such as the Avante system, the...

See Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. (NISTIR)

Cast Vote Record

Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Cyber Workforce Initiative

Relating to, involving, or characteristic of computers, computer networks, information and communications technology (ICT), virtual systems, or computer-enabled control of physical...

A person who employs the functions of computer networks, systems, devices, or services.

An attack, via cyberspace, targeting an enterprise's use of cyberspace for the purpose of disrupting, disabling, destroying, or maliciously controlling a computing environment/infr...