Terms starting with “E”

Cryptosystem performing or controlling a function as an integral element of a larger system or subsystem. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Cryptography engineered into an equipment or system whose basic function is not cryptographic. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY.

A situation requiring postponement of ordinary election activities. "The governor may, upon issuance of an executive order declaring a state of emergency or impending emergency, su...

A plan developed to prevent loss of national intelligence; protect personnel, facilities, and communications; and recover operations damaged by terrorist attack, natural disaster,...

A to be used in the event of voting machine failure. "If for any cause a voting BALLOT machine fails to operate, the district board shall use the supply of emergency ballots that a...

Paper ballots that should be on hand in polling places where DRE voting machines are the standard method of voting. Emergency paper ballots should be used when DREs are inoperable,...

In Colorado, an application for voter registration received after the registration books have been closed for a particular election. Colo. Rev. Stat. §1-2-217.5.

A "modification to correct a vital, but defective, part of a program or the program's executable image, as used in the voting system. The modification must correct a defect that wo...

Election Management Guidelines

An upper bound on the power than an is permitted to radiate, to avoid ELECTRONIC DEVICE interference with nearby devices. VVSG.

. The component of communications security that results from all measures taken to deny unauthorized persons information of value that might be derived from intercept and analysis...

The component of communications security that results from all measures taken to deny unauthorized persons information of value that might be derived from intercept and analysis of...

EBM-MARKED PAPER BALLOT.

An "OPTICAL used to count EMPBs." VVSG. SCANNER 2007

Election Management System

See encrypt. Rationale: Deprecated Term: Encrypt is the preferred term.

Collection of information systems connected by one or more internal networks under the control of a single authority and security policy. The systems may be structured by physical...

Point at which an enclave's internal network service layer connects to an external network's service layer, i.e., to another enclave or to a Wide Area Network (WAN). (CNSSI-4009) (...

A set of system resources that operate in the same security domain and that share the protection of a single, common, continuous security perimeter. Source: IETF RFC 4949 Ver 2 Poi...

To put something inside of something else, such as enclosing an absentee ballot in a secrecy sleeve.

A through which electromagnetic radiation and disturbance may pass. VVSG. PORT 2007

To convert plaintext to ciphertext by means of a code.

A device used by a to activate a with information POLL WORKER VOTER ACCESS CARD concerning the appropriate ballot style to be presented to the voter.