Terms starting with “O”

See VOTING. EARLY

The "public process of manually tallying votes in 1 percent of the precincts, selected at random by the elections official, and in one precinct for each race not included in the ra...

A principle of representation in which each elected representative represents the same number of electors, and under which malapportionment is minimized.

"N-OF-M where N = 1." VVSG. VOTING 2007

Code in which plain text elements and their accompanying code groups are arranged in alphabetical, numerical, or other systematic order, so one listing serves for both encoding and...

Cryptosystem employing key used only once.

Manual one-time cryptosystem produced in pad form. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Manual one-time cryptosystem produced in pad form.

Punched paper tape used to provide key streams on a one-time basis in certain machine cryptosystems. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Punched paper tape used to provide key streams on a one-time basis in certain machine cryptosystems.

Hash algorithms which map arbitrarily long inputs into a fixed-size output such that it is very difficult (computationally infeasible) to find two different hash inputs that produc...

A hardware or software mechanism that only permits data to move in one direction and does not allow the flow of data in the opposite direction.

A "ballot provided to voters who have requested in writing to automatically receive an absentee ballot for each ensuing election for which he or she is entitled to vote, and provid...

An attack against an authentication protocol where the Attacker either assumes the role of a Claimant with a genuine Verifier or actively alters the authentication channel. The goa...

An online protocol used to determine the status of a public key certificate. (FIPS 201) (NISTIR)

Cryptographic system in which encryption and decryption are performed in association with the transmitting and receiving functions.

Online voter registration follows essentially the same process as a traditional paper-based process, by which new voters fill out a paper form that is submitted to election officia...

Voter registration subsystem that permits individual users to remotely create, edit or review their own voter record within the voter registration system.

A ballot which is exposed to the public. "In all elections by the people, the mode of voting shall be by ballot; but the voter shall be left free to vote by either open, sealed or...

SCAP language for expressing security checks that cannot be evaluated without some human interaction or feedback. (SP 800-128) (NISTIR)

A form of List PR in which voters can express a preference both for a party or grouping for one, or sometimes more, candidates within that party or grouping. See also Closed list a...

Primary election in which any voters can participate, regardless of their political affiliation. Some states require voters to publicly declare their choice of party ballot at the...

Documents or pieces of information that are not considered confidential and generally pertain to the conduct of government.

Computer software with its source code (human readable code) made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the so...