Terms starting with “D”

The chief election official at in Colorado. A "registered elector who is a resident of PRECINCT the district, is affiliated with a political party, and is designated or elected pur...

"All primaries and elections shall be conducted in each election district by a district election board consisting of a judge of election, a majority inspector of election and a min...

An officer or board charged with performing the duties required of the clerk of a district Cal. Elec. Code §308.

An official appointed to "oversee the procedures of a group of polling places and shall act as the personal agent and deputy of the election commissioner." Neb. Stat. §32-225. Cf....

The lines that divide Districts from one another.

For an electoral district, the number of representatives to be elected from it. See also Average district magnitude .

The number assigned to a political district.

An "ELECTIVE for which only the electors in a ... may vote." Conn. Gen. OFFICE DISTRICT Stat. §9-372(4).

A political subdivision within a PRECINCT. Examples include assembly, congressional, legislative, municipal, school, senate and supervisorial.

A Linux distribution is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and often a package management system.

The crime or disturbing or preventing, or attempting to prevent, any elector from freely casting his ballot. Ala. Code §17-23-8. See also DISTURBING POLLING PLACE.

The crime of "disturbing a polling place consists of creating any disorder or disruption at a polling place on election day or interfering with the orderly conduct of an election."...

An electromechanical device designed to deflect certain ballots into a special bag or area for further examination, e.g. ballots containing WRITE-INS, which require manual processi...

See Demilitarized Zone. (NISTIR)

domain name system

generates a list of similarly looking domain names for a given domain name and performs DNS queries for them (A, AAAA, NS and MX) which can be used to intercept misdirected traffic...

A "ballot used with a voting system in which the voter individually is issued a ballot on which to indicate one or more votes. 'Document ballot' includes (i) a machine-read ballot,...

Department of Defense

Any information that has not been cleared for public release in accordance with Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5230.09, "Clearance of DoD Information for Public Release", an...

Department of Education

A strategy to communicate that sends a subtly coded message

Department of Justice

An environment or context that includes a set of system resources and a set of system entities that have the right to access the resources as defined by a common security policy, s...

A unique name composed of alphanumeric characters that identifies a website and appears in the address bar of the web browser.