Terms starting with “M”

"Misspelling or abbreviations of the names of write-in candidates shall be disregarded if the individual for whom the vote was intended can be clearly ascertained from the ballot."...

Any situation where controlled unclassified information (CUI) is used in a manner inconsistent with the policy contained in Executive Order 13556, 32 Code of Federal Regulations (C...

1. A vote that is cast for a candidate or on an issue that differs from the choice intended by the voter. 2. A vote that fails to conform to statute. "Any overvote or misvote for o...

The application of one or more measures to reduce the likelihood of an unwanted occurrence and/or lessen its consequences.

Man in the Middle

A cryptographic protocol executed by a set of servers, known as mix-servers, that provides anonymity for a group of senders. Their individual messages can be encrypted and mixed so...

A mixed system in which all the voters use the first electoral system, usually a plurality/majority system, to elect some of the representatives to an elected body/ The remaining s...

TICKET. W.V.C. §3-4-8(8). SPLIT

A system in which the choices expressed by voters are used to elect representatives through two different systems, one proportional representation system and one plurality/majority...

TICKET. W.V.C. §3-4-8(8). SPLIT

An electronic process implemented prior to counting involving encryption and decryption which removes any links between a marked ballot and the identity of the voter who cast it; u...

BALLOT. MANUALLY-MARKED PAPER

An that is able to read BALLOTS. OPTICAL SCANNER MANUALLY-MARKED PAPER

A Hart Intercivic products, consisting of a PC Card used to transport either ballot data files, or Abbreviated CAST VOTE RECORDS. MBB.

Software programs or parts of programs obtained from remote information systems, transmitted across a network, and executed on a local information system without explicit installat...

Categories of risk associated with mobile code technology based on functionality, level of access to workstation, server, and remote system services and resources, and the resultin...

Software technologies that provide the mechanisms for the production and use of mobile code (e.g., Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, VBScript). Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 4

A portable computing device that: (i) has a small form factor such that it can easily be carried by a single individual; (ii) is designed to operate without a physical connection (...

Any "registration held outside the central registration in the office of the department of elections for each respective county and excluding registrations held within the district...

Programs that are goal-directed and capable of suspending their execution on one platform and moving to another platform where they resume execution. (SP 800-19) (NISTIR)

A demonstration election held in a polling place, often on Election Day and for the purpose of education school children. 31 Ky. Admin. Regs. §4:090.

An algorithm for the cryptographic transformation of data that features a symmetric key block cipher algorithm. (SP 800-38C) (NISTIR) Description of the conditions under which an i...

A "mechanically operated model or miniature of the whole or a part of the face of the voting machine, illustrating the manner of voting." La. R.S. §18:1351(5).

A device, usually internal to computer when it is present, that allows data communications over telephone line. Modems are sometimes used in voting machines to transfer unofficial...