Terms starting with “S”

A cyber incident that is (or group of related cyber incidents that together are) likely to result in demonstrable harm to the national security interests, foreign relations, or eco...

An event that occurs during voting that is required to be logged for audit purposes. Such events include, but are not limited to: "(1) error messages and operator response to those...

Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

A majority in which the highest number of votes cast for any one candidate, issue, or item exceeds the second-highest number, but less than 50%.

Random samples in which every item (such as a ballot sheet) has an equal and independent probability of being selected.

An electoral system in which voters vast a single candidate-centred vote for one candidate in a multi-member district. The candidates with the highest vote totals are declared elec...

Means of distributing key to multiple, local crypto equipment or devices from a single fill point. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Means of distributing key to multiple, local crypto equipment or devices from a single fill point.

Alabama was one of the last states to switch to a for choosing Presidential SHORT BALLOT electors, called there a SHORT. SINGLE

VOTING. Abbreviated STV. CHOICE

A preferential candidate-centred proportional representation system used in multi-member districts. Candidates that surpass a specified quota (see Quota (a)) of first-preference vo...

The security risks resulting from a mobile software agent moving from its home platform to another platform. (SP 800-19) (NISTIR)

An electoral district from which only one member is elected to a legislature or elected body. See also Multi-member district .

A type of user interface for a disabled voter by which voting may be accomplished by blowing and inhaling using a tube. At least one machine having such an interface or similar pne...

Within a volume of time and space, the perception of an enterprise's security posture and its threat environment; the comprehension/meaning of both taken together (risk); and the p...

The unauthorized use of a reader to read tags without the authorization or knowledge of the tag's owner or the individual in possession of the tag. (SP 800-98) (NISTIR)

"A political committee of two or more candidates who join together to conduct and pay for joint campaign activities." Md. Elec. Code §1-101(oo).

A mass mailing that supports or opposes multiple candidates or ballot measures.

MODIFIED OPEN PRIMARY.

an attack tool designed to take down a server by flooding it with incomplete HTTP requests, without using much of bandwidth

MODULE. SIGNATURE

A credit card-sized card with embedded integrated circuits that can store, process, and communicate information.

Association of authority, access requirements, retention provenance and any additional information with a data object; smart data includes data provenance and data tagging. Source:...

(ES&S) A device that processes from Optech precinct count optical scanners MEMORY PACKS and is part of the ADAPTER. INTELLIGENT DEVICE