Terms starting with “P”

PAPER AND MARKSENSE VOTING SYSTEM.

Peer to Peer Network architecture in which those systems involved can carry out similar functions (in contrast to client-server architecture). P2P is often used for exchanging data...

Platform as a Service

Political Action Committee. Popular term for a political committee that is neither a party committee nor an authorized committee of a candidate. PACs directly or financially suppor...

Compression program or compression algorithm of a program. Originally intended to optimize the size of a program on the hard drive. Malware often uses upstream packers to prevent r...

The logical unit of network communications produced by the transport layer.

A routing device that provides access control functionality for host addresses and communication sessions. (SP 800-41) (NISTIR)

Software that observes and records network traffic.

The verification of the presence of each required page in a physical publication. Source: CNSSI No. 4005 (COMSEC)

A voting machine in which the ballot is presented in pages rather than FULL-FACE. La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §18:553.1.

A cryptographic protocol useful in electronic voting, invented by Pascal Paillier in 1999. A vote for a candidate (1 = for, 0 = against) is blinded through multiplication by a powe...

The term used in francophone countries for the version of List PR in which voters may vote for a party or grouping and in addition for one or more candidates, whether or not those...

A "lever the election judge uses to clear the votes when an elector fails to enter any votes on a lever voting machine." Wyo. Rules §1.4(mm). Cf. NO-VOTE BUTTON.

The principle in some jurisdictions that have implemented Internet voting, that a paper ballot cast in-person will supersede any ballot cast by the same individual by Internet voti...

An obsolete term from the 1990 FEC Standards. PAPER-BASED VOTING SYSTEM. Abbreviated P&M SYSTEM.

A paper record of ballots cast through an electronic voting machine.

A piece of paper, paper roll or multiple card stock, on which all voter selections are either hand marked or printed, depending on the particular voting system.

A single piece of paper that forms part of a paper ballot. Paper ballots may contain multiple sheets.

The face of a paper ballot sheet . A paper ballot may have two sides.

The "method of recording votes which are counted manually." Hawaii Rev. Stat. §16-21. Cf. SYSTEM. VOTING MACHINE

Voting using tangible ballots made of paper; as opposed to electronic voting or Internet voting. Personal Identification

A piece of paper on which information from a computer, scanner or similar device has been printed.

A "paper or summary that is a copy of the electronic record and that is BALLOT IMAGE verifiable by a voter." A. 2005 VVSG V.1, APPENDIX

A "an auditable document printed by a voter verified paper audit trail component that corresponds to the voter's electronic vote and lists the contests on the ballot and the voter'...