Terms starting with “R”

A "provision that conveys criteria to be fulfilled." GLOSSARY. 2005 VVSG

The fundamental collection of activities and functions that must be supported by a system. Defining requirements determines the capabilities of the system. Election officials must...

All of the legal requirements to hold an elected office.

To complete a form to update your information on an electoral roll for the jurisdiction where a voter resides, as a prerequisite for being entitled to vote.

The "submission of a registration form by a voter whose registration was inactivated on the ... and the director's reactivation of that registration." Alaska Stat. MASTER REGISTER...

Key held to satisfy unplanned needs. See contingency key.

A spare machine kept in reserve in the event it is found that a machine is configured incorrectly for the election. W. Va. Code §3-4A-17.

Seats in which a determinable criterion such as religion, ethnicity, language or gender is a requirement for nomination or election.

A voter's place of residence is critical to determining where she may vote and for which candidates she is eligible to vote. The "principal or primary home or place of abode of a p...

The place in which a voter's habitation is fixed, wherein the person has the intention of remaining, and to which, whenever they are absent, the person has the intention of returni...

The rules that govern if an individual is entitled to become a candidate or vote, based on where they live, and how long they have lived there.

A citizen of a foreign nation, legally residing in the United States on a permanent basis, who is not yet a naturalized citizen of the United States. Source: CNSSI No. 4005 (COMSEC...

"[P]ermanent computerized instructions which are built into any approved voting machine or equipment and which control the recordation, aggregation, tabulation, storage and printin...

Ensur(ing) that any data contained in a resource is not available when the resource is de- allocated from one object and reallocated to a different object. Source: ISO/IEC 15408-2...

Portion of risk remaining after security measures have been applied. Source: NIST SP 800-33 (adapted)

he remaining potential risk after all IT security measures are applied. There is a residual risk associated with each threat. SOURCE: SP 800-33 Portion of risk remaining after secu...

A vote that could have been cast by a voter but was not validly cast, for whatever reason. Residual votes are caused by (1) the deliberate choice not to vote; (2) overvoting, resul...

Data left in storage after information processing operations are complete, but before degaussing or overwriting has taken place.

Total number of votes that cannot be counted for a specific contest. There may be multiple reasons for residual votes (e.g., overvoting in a contest, failure to cast ballot before...

The ability to recover gracefully from error conditions and unexpected circumstances. For example, manually marked paper preserves evidence of exceptions that can advise both adjud...

The ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions. Resilience includes the ability to withstand and recover from delibe...

A statement of policy by the governing body or an order by the governing body that a specific action be taken.

A "board at an automatic tabulating location comprised of a representative from each political party having a candidate on the ballot and whose candidate on the county-wide ballot...

Method by which the reference monitor mediates accesses to an information system resource. Resource is protected and not directly accessible by a subject. Satisfies requirement for...