Terms starting with “O”

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1. A process of identifying critical information and analyzing friendly actions attendant to military operations and other activities to: identify those actions that can be observe...

The hardware and software systems used to operate industrial control devices.

Office of Personnel Management

Other candidates for offices up for elections who belong to a different party or who have different aims or policies.

Auditing of additional contests on selected ballots beyond the contests for which risk limits have been specified.

Disapproving of or disagreeing with.

OPSEC countermeasures reduce the likelihood that critical information will be unintentionally disclosed to threat actors and should be applied to all election security risk areas,...

Abbreviated OMR.

Any "apparatus necessary to automatically examine and count votes as designated on paper ballots." Miss. Code Ann. 23-15-503(b).

A voting system that can scan paper ballots and tally votes. Most older optical scan systems use Infrared (IR) scanning technology and ballots with timing marks to accurately scan...

A "ballot that is marked by using a specified writing instrument to fill in a designated position to record a voter's candidate, question, or issue choice and that can be scanned a...

These are paper ballots, marked by voters, either manually with (typically) pens or through the use of a ballot marking device, which can be counted by optical scanners or by hand....

System by which votes are recorded by means of marks made in voting targets designated on one or both sides of a ballot card or series of cards. An optical scan system reads and ta...

An "electronic voting system ... in which the voter records votes by marking with a pencil or other device, including an MARKER, a ballot on which the names of ELECTRONIC BALLOT ca...

A "TABULATOR that counts votes recorded by means of marks made on the surface of a paper ballot." VVSG.

A "paper ballot designed to be read by an optical scanning machine." Alaska Stat. §15.60.005(20).

National Security Agency (NSA)-approved modification not required for universal implementation by all holders of a COMSEC end-item. This class of modification requires all of the e...

A that can be requested by a losing candidate for nomination or election. if the RECOUNT margin of loss is greater than that required for an RECOUNT. Minn. Stat. AUTOMATIC §204C.35...

An authoritative command, direction, or instruction.

The order in which contests and candidates appear on a ballot.

The key management entity (KME) authorized to designate other KME as a short title assignment requester (STAR) or ordering privilege manager (OPM). Source: CNSSI No. 4005 (COMSEC)

A piece of legislation enacted by a local authority.

An entity of any size, complexity, or positioning within an organizational structure (e.g., a federal agency, or, as appropriate, any of its operational elements). See enterprise....