Terms starting with “F”

Active-duty military and family members and individuals, who vote while living abroad.

Ballot of active-duty military and family members and individuals, who vote while living abroad.

Assistance available from the Federal Voting Assistance Program to voters serving in the military and overseas civilians.

Voting Assistance Officers (VAOs) work to ensure that military and overseas voters understand their voting rights, how to register to vote absentee, and have access to accurate non...

Voter assistance and education program to ensure that members of the U. S. armed forces, their eligible family members, and U.S. citizens overseas are aware of their right to vote...

The Voting Rights Act of is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

Abbreviated FVSS.

The Federal minimum standards that each voting system used in an election for Federal office must meet.

The Federal minimum standards that each voting system used in an election for Federal office must meet.

The provided for in for voters who do not receive state ABSENTEE BALLOT UOCAVA ABSENTEE 42 U.S.C. §1973ff-2(a). Abbreviated BALLOTS. FWAB.

A blank ballot provided by the Federal Voting Assistance Program by which military and overseas voters can vote by writing in their choices and returning the ballot to their electi...

Indigenous tribal entities that are recognized as having a government-to-government relationship with the United States, with the responsibilities, powers, limitations, and obligat...

This refers to a voting system's ability to provide a voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT). The voter's choices are displayed under glass or plastic (out of reach of the vote...

Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program

Federal Virtual Training Environment

Federal Virtual Training Environment Live!

(optical scan) An error condition in which the mechanism that feeds into the scanner BALLOTS jams.

A crime regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor and usually punishable by loss of voting rights for a period of time.

Federal Emergency Management Agency

See MASCULINE.

"The Secretary of State may appoint a field examiner who shall instruct and assist municipal election officials ..." Me. Rev. Stat. §21-A-608.

A in which more than one candidate is to be elected. Also RACE MULTI-SEAT CONTEST, VOTE- FOR-MANY.

A set of wireless software and hardware technologies that will produce a significant improvement in data speed, volume, and latency (delay in data transfer) over fourth-generation...

Used in request and response messages. VoterId optionally uses this class for FileValue to specify a filename for voter identification purposes such as for a utility bill. Addition...