Terms starting with “P”

A "cartridge that stores the ballot information and records the votes for each marksense voting system." Wyo. Rules §1.4(uu). Cf. NO-VOTE BUTTON.

A configuration setting for a network interface card that causes it to accept all incoming packets that it sees, regardless of their intended destinations. (SP 800-94) (NISTIR)

The illegal promise by a candidate to a person that he will, in return for that person's support or "securing the candidate's nomination, election or appointment," use his influenc...

The illegal promise by a candidate to "promise directly or indirectly to name or appoint any person or persons to any place, position, or office in consideration of any person or p...

A document confirming where a voter lives.

A "paper ballot in which the appropriate box is marked with an 'x' or '  ,' the oval is completely blackened, or the incomplete line or arrow is connected, and the voter has not c...

Someone who proposes something, or at least supports it by speaking and writing in favor of it.

A type of used in a majority of states by the Democratic party. PRIMARY ELECTION Convention delegates are apportioned among the candidates receiving the most votes in each district...

An electoral system in which parties gain seats in proportion to the number of votes cast for them.

An electoral system family based on the principle of the conscious translation of the overall votes of a party or grouping into a corresponding proportion of seats in an elected bo...

A vote variation used in multi-seat contests where the votes allowed in the contest are distributed to the selected candidates proportionally depending on the number of selections....

An "initiative, referendum, or constitutional amendment submitted at an election to the public for vote." Alaska Stat. §15.60.010(25). The "wording appearing on a ballot to identif...

Material and information relating to or associated with a company's products, business, or activities, including but not limited to financial information; data or statements; trade...

FOCI Top Secret (TS) information, COMSEC information excluding controlled cryptographic items when unkeyed and utilized with unclassified keys, restricted data (RD), special access...

A NICE Framework category consisting of specialty areas responsible for the identification, analysis, and mitigation of threats to internal IT systems or networks.

PCII is [information and communications] protected from disclosure. All critical infrastructure information that has been properly submitted and validated pursuant to the Critical...

Wire line or fiber optic system that includes adequate safeguards and/or countermeasures (e.g., acoustic, electric, electromagnetic, and physical) to permit its use for the transmi...

"[E]lectors of the state of Washington who are not registered voters of Washington or any other state." Wash. Admin. Code §434-240-010(2).

Informal description of the overall design of an information system delineating each of the protection mechanisms employed. Combination of formal and informal techniques, appropria...

A minimal, baseline set of requirements targeted at mitigating well defined and described threats. The term Protection Profile refers to NSA/NIAP requirements for a technology and...

A "separate counter, which cannot be reset, that is built into a and records VOTING MACHINE the total number of movements of the operating lever." Utah Code §20A-1-102(54). A "regi...

A device "whereby any operation of the machine before or after the election will be detected." N.J.S.A. §19:48-1(i). Also COUNTER. PROTECTVE

Wire line or fiber optic system that includes adequate safeguards and/or countermeasures (e.g., acoustic, electric, electromagnetic, and physical) to permit its use for the transmi...

Packaging techniques for COMSEC material that discourage penetration, reveal a penetration has occurred or was attempted, or inhibit viewing or copying of keying material prior to...