Terms starting with “T”
254 election security terms starting with T, with direct links to full definitions and source-backed context.
Technical Reference Model (trm)
VerifiedA component-driven, technical framework that categorizes the standards and technologies to support and enable the delivery of service components and capabilities.
Technical Security Controls
VerifiedSecurity controls (i.e., safeguards or countermeasures) for an information system that are primarily implemented and executed by the information system through mechanisms contained...
Technical Security Material
VerifiedEquipment, components, devices, and associated documentation or other media which pertain to cryptography, or to the security of telecommunications and information systems. Source:...
Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (tscm)
VerifiedTechniques to detect, neutralize, and exploit technical surveillance technologies and hazards that permit the unauthorized access to or removal of information. Source: DoDI 5240.05
Technical Vulnerability Information
VerifiedDetailed description of a weakness to include the implementable steps (such as code) necessary to exploit that weakness.
Technology Research And Development
VerifiedIn the NICE Framework, cybersecurity work where a person: Conducts technology assessment and integration processes; provides and supports a prototype capability and/or evaluates it...
Telecommunications
The preparation, transmission, communication, or related processing of information (writing, images, sounds, or other data) by electrical, electromagnetic, electromechanical, elect...
Telecommunications Security (tsec) Nomenclature
VerifiedThe National Security Agency (NSA) system for identifying the type and purpose of certain items of COMSEC material. Source: CNSSI No. 4005 (COMSEC)
Telework
VerifiedThe ability for an organization's employees and contractors to perform work from locations other than the organization's facilities. (SP 800-46) (NISTIR)
Tempest
VerifiedA name referring to the investigation, study, and control of unintentional compromising emanations from telecommunications and automated information systems equipment. Source: FIPS...
Tempest Certified Equipment Or System
VerifiedEquipment or systems that have been certified to meet the applicable level of NSTISSAM TEMPEST/1-92 or previous editions. Typically categorized as Level 1 for the highest containme...
Tempest Test
VerifiedLaboratory or on-site test to determine the nature of compromising emanations associated with an information system. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)
Tempest Zone
VerifiedDesignated area within a facility where equipment with appropriate TEMPEST characteristics (TEMPEST zone assignment) may be operated.
Template
Verified1. A "piece of material containing precisely located holes, conical in shape and positioned so that a stylus tip can penetrate only the scored areas of the CARD." 31 Ky. Admin. BAL...
Temporalballotrequest
VerifiedUsed in request messages. Subtype of BallotRequest in which election opportunities that the voter is qualified during a given time frame may be requested. Attribute Multiplicity Ty...
Temporary Registration
VerifiedA registration to vote issued to voters who have moved overseas under certain conditions. Va. Code §24.2-443.1.
Term Limits
VerifiedA legal restriction that limits the total number of terms an officeholder may serve in a particular elected office.
Term Of Office
VerifiedThe period of time for which a person is elected or appointed to hold a public office. Terms of elected office are usually 2, or years.
Termination Of Voting
VerifiedThe following provision is typical: "A person who is in line to vote when the polls close on election day shall be allowed to vote. Voting in a primary or general election shall te...
Test
A "procedure used to determine one or more characteristics of an object of CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT. ... A test may be an or a non-operating test (e.g., an OPERATIONAL TEST INSPECTION...
Test And Evaluation
VerifiedIn the NICE Framework, cybersecurity work where a person: Develops and conducts tests of systems to evaluate compliance with specifications and requirements by applying principles...
Test Ballot
VerifiedA prepared to test a voting machine or system. Texas Elec. Code §127.094(c). BALLOT
Test Campaign
VerifiedThe "sum of the work by a on a single product or system from contract through test plan, VSTL conduct of testing for each requirement (including hardware, software, and systems), r...
Test Cards
VerifiedA "preaudited group of ballot cards on which are recorded a predetermined number of valid votes for each candidate and on each measure and shall include for each office one (1) or...