Terms starting with “P”

A recording all difficulties encountered by a during the design and LOG MANUFACTURER development phase for a voting system. VVSG.

To assist jurisdictions, the Attorney General has issued a set of Procedures for the Administration of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which is also published at 28 C.F...

A process for authenticating a voter remotely while maintaining ballot anonymity.

A process checkpoint and migration technique that uses dynamic program re-writing techniques to add a checkpointing capability to a running program. Process hijacking makes it poss...

The act of verifying eligibility, adding information to a database, and creating a new or updated voter record upon the receipt of elections application, such as a voter registrati...

"The governing authority ordering the election shall preserve a proces verbal of the canvass and shall forward a copy to the secretary of state, who shall record it." La. Rev. Stat...

A board that identifies damaged or mutilated ballots to be sent to a DUPLICATION BOARD. Tenn. Rules §1360-2-9-.01(b).

A subsystem consisting of "hardware and software required to accumulate voting data for all candidates and measures at the machine and polling place levels, to consolidate the voti...

The list of information assurance (IA) and IA-enabled products evaluated and validated pursuant to the NIAP program. Source: CNSSP No. 11 (adapted)

The Key Management Infrastructure core node that provides central generation of cryptographic key material.

A "standard that specifies requirements to be fulfilled by a product or a group of products, to establish its fitness for purpose." GLOSSARY. 2005 VVSG

For a voting system examination in Virginia, the vendor must submit a "production model." Va. Code §24.2-629(A).

(1) Subset of a standard for a particular constituency that identifies the features, options, parameters, and implementation requirements necessary for meeting a particular set of...

Measuring the characteristics of expected activity so that changes to it can be more easily identified. Source: NIST SP 800-61 Rev 2

Source: NIST SP 800-137

The requirement of the that government programs - when AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT viewed in their entirety - must be readily accessible to and usable by people with disabiliti...

"[T]he actual punch card deck or decks, or a computer program disk, diskette, tape or other programming media, containing the program for counting and tabulating the votes, includi...

Abbreviated PROM.

Electronic device that includes software. Most electronic voting devices include application logic (software) and are, therefore, programmed devices.

In the VVSG, "is prohibited" indicates "a mandatory requirement not to do something." Cf. SHALL.

An otherwise genuine ballot that a voter is forbidden to use because it has not been obtained in accordance with procedures. "No voter shall vote or offer to vote any ballot except...

Those entities that are banned from making contributions or, in some cases, expenditures, in connection with, or for the purpose of influencing, a federal election.

A development project conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense to fulfill its responsibilities under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA). It is an a...

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