Terms starting with “P”

A form of DRE voting system that uses electronic ballots and transmits official vote data from the polling place to another location (such as a central count facility) over a publi...

A notice issued by a government agency or legislative body to make the public aware of the various government activities, hearings, public bids or other actions.

Any federal, state, county, municipal, town, parish, borough or other district office or government position.

A term used to describe an individual who occupies any federal, state, county, municipal, town, parish, borough, or other district office or government position.

QUESTION. Any "question, proposition or referendum required by the legislative or governing body of this State or any of its political subdivisions to be submitted by referendum pr...

A formal request made by a member of the public for documents or pieces of information that are not considered confidential and generally pertain to the conduct of government.

A starting value for a pseudorandom number generator. The value produced by the random number generator may be made public. The public seed is often called a "salt".

An abbreviated logic and accuracy test of voting equipment, pre-announced in public media and open to public attendance, usually in conformance with specific election calendar timi...

A set of roles, policies, and procedures used to establish greater trust in the authenticity of a digital certificate and for use in creating, managing, distributing, using, storin...

A ballot card that contains voting position targets that a marking device must pierce to form a hole in order to record a voter's choice for a candidate or measure.

1. A in which the voter records her choices by causing holes to be made in VOTING SYSTEM predefined positions in a machine-readable paper card. See, e.g. Wash. Admin. Code §434- 32...

Voting system where votes are recorded by means of punches made in voting response fields designated on one or both faces of a ballot card or series of cards.

A ballot consisting of a punched-card that is capable of being read by a card reader to tabulate the vote.

A ballot marking device used by voters to punch holes in a ballot card to mark their selections.

A ballot marking device used by voters to punch holes in a ballot card to mark their selections.

An optical scan vote counting system developed by David Chaum to provide a voter-verifiable, end-to-end audit mechanism. The order of candidates on the ballot is generated pseudo-...

A method of sanitization that applies physical or logical techniques that render Target Data recovery infeasible using state of the art laboratory techniques. Source: NIST SP 800-8...

The act of removing the names of ineligible voters from the registration rolls.

SYSTEM. PRECINCT VOTING

(ES&S) An election data file that has been converted to be input to equipment, IVOTRONIC containing both geographical information and ballot setup data. .