Terms starting with “S”

A designated sites within a precinct other than the regular voting place for that precinct, sometimes provided for elderly or disabled voters. N.C. Gen. Stat. §163-130.

A voting registrar for a satellite registration location. Utah Code §20A-5-201.

Temporary site set up by an elections office for the purposes of voting.

The visual intensity of a particular color. An must offer the ACCESSIBLE VOTING STATION voter at least two levels of saturation, low and high, on its screen display. "High saturati...

ELECTIONS. STATE BOARD OF

See Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. (NISTIR)

A horizontal line traced across a cathode-ray tube by an electron beam to form part of an image. Typically, this issue is caused by wet ink or some other substance transferred from...

Scanning a system involves attempting to identify the security vulnerabilities the system may have by sending it specific network traffic and observing its responses. The definitio...

A device that scans documents, images, printed text, handwriting, or an object and converts them into digital data. A Ballot scanner is a device used to read the voter selection da...

Sending packets or requests to another system to gain information to be used in a subsequent attack.

The "portions of the ballot that the system scans in order to read the vote marks made by voters." Wash. Admin. Code §434-335-430(2).

a cyberattack tactic that frightens people into visiting spoofed or infected websites or downloading malicious software (malware)

A chain of piconets created by allowing one or more Bluetooth devices to each be a slave in one piconet and act as the master for another piconet simultaneously. A scatternet allow...

Searching through object residue to acquire data.

Existing law that requires any federal, state, county, municipal, district, or other district election to be held on certain dates, usually on a reoccurring basis.

A cryptographic protocol that is able to hide the voter's vote without conceal the voter's identity.

A geographical unit for the local administration of elementary or secondary schools.

An "election to choose a school district officer." 63 N.H. Rev. Stat. §652:9.

Any "annual or special election to be held in and for a local or regional school district." N.J.S. §19:1-1.

An "office filled by a school officer." Nev. Rev. Stat. §293.100.

An official responsible for school administration, such as a member of a state board of regents. See, e.g., Nev. Rev. Stat. §293.103.

A part of tailoring guidance providing organizations with specific considerations on the applicability and implementation of security controls in the security control baseline. Are...

A part of tailoring guidance providing organizations with specific policy/regulatory-related, technology-related, system component allocation-related, operational/environmental-rel...

A single-winner voting system where voters rate candidates on a scale. The candidate with the highest rating wins.