Terms starting with “P”

Trained critical infrastructure protection and vulnerability mitigation subject matter experts who work for DHS and are responsible for ensuring all Office of Infrastructure Protec...

Special tamper-evident features and materials employed for the purpose of detecting, tampering and deterring attempts to compromise, modify, penetrate, extract, or substitute infor...

A "complaint concerning the conduct of an election which, if supported by sufficient evidence, may require remedy by one or more of the following: a. A correction in the returns. b...

A petition or process to challenge or to raise objections against the conclusions of an administrative action.

A precise set of rules by which two or more computers exchange information.

Source: CNSSI No. 4032

A unit of data specified in a protocol and consisting of protocol information and, possibly, user data. (FIPS 188) (NISTIR)

Entity that follows a set of rules and formats (semantic and syntactic) that determines the communication behavior of other entities. (FIPS 188) (NISTIR)

A set of rules (i.e., formats and procedures) to implement and control some type of association (e.g., communication) between systems. Source: IETF RFC 4949 Ver 2 An application th...

An who is required to provide identification so that her eligibility to vote ABSENTEE VOTER can be determined later and her ballot excluded from counting if she is not eligible. N....

A ballot cast under the Help America Vote Act by a voter whose eligibility to vote is in question, to be counted only if the voter's eligibility is subsequently verified under stat...

An official envelope used to enclose a ballot that was cast provisionally to separate the ballot from other cast ballots until the voters eligibility can be determined.

Ballots cast by voters whose eligibility to vote is disputed by an election official. Standards for counting provisional ballots vary significantly among the states.

An interim of a voting system pending the opportunity for a full examination CERTIFICATION or waiver of examination. For example, a vendor may make software modifications to a prev...

A "political organization which has filed a legally valid petition to be recognized as a party]. The filing of a legally valid petition entitles the provisional party to participat...

A ballot cast by a voter who was not on the list of eligible voters, whose information was incomplete or not accurate, or who had already received a ballot in the mail and was allo...

An outline of the rules and procedures for voting provisionally, published by the official authority who is responsible for administering an election.

The act of casting a ballot by a voter who was not on the list of eligible voters, whose information was incomplete or not accurate, or who had already received a ballot in the mai...

A term that includes both and BALLOTS. PROVISIONAL BALLOTS CHALLENGED

An "individual whose application for voter registration was accepted but whose eligibility has not yet been verified as provided by law." Mont. Code Ann. §13-1-101(24).

A proxy is an application that "breaks" the connection between client and server. The proxy accepts certain types of traffic entering or leaving a network and processes it and forw...

A form of voting whereby a member of a decision-making body may delegate his or her voting power to a representative, to enable a vote in absence.

A software application running on a firewall or on a dedicated proxy server that is capable of filtering a protocol and routing it between the interfaces of the device.

A server that services the requests of its clients by forwarding those requests to other servers.