Terms starting with “T”
254 election security terms starting with T, with direct links to full definitions and source-backed context.
Tab
TABULATION.
Tabletop Exercise
A discussion-based exercise where personnel with roles and responsibilities in a particular IT plan meet in a classroom setting or in breakout groups to validate the content of the...
Tabulate
VerifiedProcess of totaling votes.
Tabulating Equipment
VerifiedThe hardware, software, or supplies used to count votes.
Tabulating Equipment Memory Card
VerifiedAn electronic data storage device used for storing digital vote totaling information, typically using flash memory.
Tabulation
Process of totaling votes.
Tabulation Audit
VerifiedA post-election audit that involves hand-counting a sample of votes on paper records, then comparing those counts to the corresponding vote totals originally reported as a check on...
Tabulation Board
VerifiedA board whose responsibility is "to handle and process all ballots delivered to the computer area" for counting. Mont. Admin. Rules §44.3.1769. Cf. BOARD. STAGING
Tabulation Memory Device
VerifiedA term that is used, but not defined, in the West Virginia Code: "The 'tabulation memory device' may be removed from the ballot-scanning device only after the polls close and the v...
Tabulation Report
VerifiedA report containing the counts associated with ballots tabulated for a given election district.
Tabulation Supervisor
VerifiedThe person "in charge of the operation of the automatic tabulating equipment at the COUNTING STATION." Texas Elec. Code §127.003. See also SUPERVISOR. ASSISTANT TABULATION
Tabulator
VerifiedThe person or device that counts votes.
Tabulator Summary Count Record
VerifiedA record that must be produced by each for purposes of Its detailed TABULATOR AUDIT. contents are specified in the VVSG, but fundamentally it ties the tabulator's unique device ide...
Tactical Data
VerifiedInformation that requires protection from disclosure and modification for a limited duration as determined by the originator or information owner.
Tactical Edge
VerifiedThe platforms, sites, and personnel (U. S. military, allied, coalition partners, first responders) operating at lethal risk in a battle space or crisis environment characterized by...
Tactical Voting
VerifiedSTRATEGIC VOTING.
Tactile Controls
VerifiedControls that are discernable or perceptible by touch using hands, feet, or other parts of the body. (Does not include touch screens.) Dual switches are a form of tactile controls...
Tactile Discernible Controls
VerifiedVoting machine controls capable of being detected and manipulated through the use of touch alone.
Tactile Input
VerifiedA method by which a visually impaired voter may interact with a voting machine. Fla. Stat. 101.56062(1)(a).
Tailored Security Control Baseline
VerifiedA set of security controls resulting from the application of tailoring guidance to the security control baseline. See Tailoring. (SP 800-37; SP 800-53; SP 800-53A) (NISTIR)
Tailored Trustworthy Space
VerifiedA cyberspace environment that provides a user with confidence in its security, using automated mechanisms to ascertain security conditions and adjust the level of security based on...
Tailoring
VerifiedThe process by which a security control baseline is modified based on (i) the application of scoping guidance, (ii) the specification of compensating security controls, if needed,...
Tailoring (assessment Procedures)
VerifiedThe process by which assessment procedures defined in Special Publication 800-53A are adjusted, or scoped, to match the characteristics of the information system under assessment,...