Terms starting with “F”

Unfortunately, this term does not always mean an election for "[A]n election FEDERAL OFFICE. held to: (A) Nominate a political party's candidate for congress or its candidates for...

(FECA) Strict limits on the amount of money a particular corporation, union, or private individual could give to a candidate in a federal election. It also required candidates and...

Strict limits on the amount of money a particular corporation, union, or private individual could give to a candidate in a federal election. It also required candidates and politic...

A body primarily concerned with oversight of campaign financing that promulgated sets of voluntary voting system standards in 1990 and 2002 known as the which FEC STANDARDS have no...

Independent agency responsible for administering and enforcing laws that cover federal election campaigns. The FEC oversees the public financing of presidential elections, ensures...

A U.S. federal inspector general (IG) is the head of an independent, non-partisan organization established within each executive bran ch agency assigned to audit the agency's opera...

A business-based framework for governmentwide improvement developed by the Office of Management and Budget that is intended to facilitate efforts to transform the federal governmen...

A business-based framework that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) developed for government-wide improvement in developing enterprise architectures (EAs) by providing a comm...

Funds that comply with the limits, prohibitions and reporting requirements of the Federal Election Campaign Act. Also called "permissible funds."

A person who enters into a contract, or is bidding on such a contract, with any agency or department of the United States government and is paid, or is to be paid, for services, ma...

A standard for adoption and use by federal departments and agencies that has been developed within the Information Technology Laboratory and published by the National Institute of...

"Standards for federal computer systems developed by NIST. These standards are developed when there are no existing industry standards to address federal requirements for system in...

A standard for adoption and use by Federal agencies that has been developed within the Information Technology Laboratory and published by the National Institute of Standards and Te...

A cryptographic module validated by the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) to meet requirements specified in FIPS 140-2 (as amended). As a prerequisite to CMVP validati...

Title III of the E-Government Act requiring each federal agency to develop, document, and implement an agency-wide program to provide information security for the information and i...

An information system used or operated by an executive agency, by a contractor of an executive agency, or by another organization on behalf of an executive agency. Source: 40 U.S.C...

(FISSEA) An organization whose members come from federal agencies, industry, and academic institutions devoted to improving the IT security awareness and knowledge within the feder...

The Federal Law Constraints on Post-Election Audits Guide sets forth the legal limitations on post-election audits under the federal election record and preservation requirements o...

The Voting Rights Act permits federal observers to monitor procedures in polling places and at sites where ballots are counted in eligible political subdivisions.

A term that used, but nowhere defined, in HAVA, whose requirements pertain only to voting for such offices. When Governor Foster of Louisiana requested clarification of the term fr...

The "official post card form, containing both an absentee voter registration application and an absentee ballot application, for use by the States as required by 42 U.S.C. §1973ff.

FEDERAL POSTCARD ABSENTEE BALLOT APPLICATION.

Among the challenges military and overseas voters face are the wide variability in rules and procedures governing registration and voting across states. The FPCA serves as a unifor...

The Federal PKI Policy Authority is a federal government body responsible for setting, implementing, and administering policy decisions regarding interagency PKI interoperability t...