Terms starting with “E”

Information and data of investigative value that is stored on or transmitted by an electronic device. (SP 800-72) (NISTIR)

A COMSEC item used to transfer or store key in electronic form or to insert key into cryptographic equipment. Source: CNSSI No. 4006

The entry of cryptographic keys into a cryptographic module using electronic methods such as a smart card or a key-loading device. (The operator of the key may have no knowledge of...

An interoperable collection of systems that automate the planning, ordering, generating, distributing, storing, filling, using, and destroying of electronic key and management of o...

Services providing interpersonal messaging capability; meeting specific functional, management, and technical requirements; and yielding a business- quality electronic mail service...

Device that partially automates the process of checking in voters, assigning them the correct ballot style, and marking voters who have been issued a ballot. May be used in place o...

A device or hardware/software combination which takes the place of a paper POLLBOOK, maintaining records of registered voters and sometimes used to prepare electronic credentials s...

Information recorded by a computer that is produced or received in the initiation, conduct, or completion of an agency or individual activity. Examples of electronic records includ...

A "RECOUNT of electronic voting system ballots on automatic tabulating equipment." Texas Elec. Code §214.041.

An ERT system is used to electronically create stationary source sampling test plans and reports. The ERT calculates the test results from data imported or hand-entered and include...

An ERT system is used to electronically create stationary source sampling test plans and reports. The ERT calculates the test results from data imported or hand-entered and include...

An "electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record...

See digital signature. Rationale: Deprecated Term: Given that there is no current consensus on its definition, it is recommended that "digital signature" be used instead, if that c...

Any storage of electronic user data on a computer, computer network, or computer system regardless of whether the data is subject to recall, further manipulation, deletion, or tran...

A "computer disk or other information storage and retrieval medium approved by the [Maryland] State Board." Md. Election Code Ann. §1-101(x).

A "ballot designed for use with an electronic voting system." Texas Elec. Code §121.003(9).

The electronic count of votes recorded on individual voting machines, or as aggregated by precinct or polling place, or at the central or county level.

The use of "hardware and software components to send data over distances both within and external to the polling place and to receive an accurate copy of the transmission." Iowa Ad...

An electronic system that both accepts choices from a voter and tabulates them, including both machines and PRINTERS. Abbreviated EVCS. DRE ACCESSIBLE BALLOT

Election system that encompasses DREs as well as accessible ballot printers (ABPs) when they are combined with the ballot scanner that processes the printed ballot. See also Voter...

"A system in which votes are recorded on an electronic ballot or on a paper ballot or on a ballot card by means of marking or by means of punching, and such votes are subsequently...

A "voting system which records and counts votes and produces a tabulation of the vote count using one ballot card imprinted on either or both faces with text and voting response lo...

A "device used to electronically scan a marked paper ballot for the purposes of tabulation;." Ark. Code §7-1-101(9).

The counting of votes by electronic means. Abbreviated EVT.