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Terms starting with “T

254 election security terms starting with T, with direct links to full definitions and source-backed context.

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Technical Reference Model (trm)

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A component-driven, technical framework that categorizes the standards and technologies to support and enable the delivery of service components and capabilities.

Standards2 sources

Technical Security Controls

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Security controls (i.e., safeguards or countermeasures) for an information system that are primarily implemented and executed by the information system through mechanisms contained...

Cybersecurity2 sources

Technical Security Material

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Equipment, components, devices, and associated documentation or other media which pertain to cryptography, or to the security of telecommunications and information systems. Source:...

Cybersecurity1 source

Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (tscm)

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Techniques to detect, neutralize, and exploit technical surveillance technologies and hazards that permit the unauthorized access to or removal of information. Source: DoDI 5240.05

Cybersecurity1 source

Technical Vulnerability Information

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Detailed description of a weakness to include the implementable steps (such as code) necessary to exploit that weakness.

Cybersecurity2 sources

Technology Research And Development

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In the NICE Framework, cybersecurity work where a person: Conducts technology assessment and integration processes; provides and supports a prototype capability and/or evaluates it...

Cybersecurity2 sources

Telecommunications

The preparation, transmission, communication, or related processing of information (writing, images, sounds, or other data) by electrical, electromagnetic, electromechanical, elect...

Communications5 sources

Telecommunications Security (tsec) Nomenclature

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The National Security Agency (NSA) system for identifying the type and purpose of certain items of COMSEC material. Source: CNSSI No. 4005 (COMSEC)

Cybersecurity1 source

Telework

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The ability for an organization's employees and contractors to perform work from locations other than the organization's facilities. (SP 800-46) (NISTIR)

Cybersecurity1 source

Tempest

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A name referring to the investigation, study, and control of unintentional compromising emanations from telecommunications and automated information systems equipment. Source: FIPS...

Communications2 sources

Tempest Certified Equipment Or System

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Equipment 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...

Cybersecurity1 source

Tempest Test

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Laboratory or on-site test to determine the nature of compromising emanations associated with an information system. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Cybersecurity1 source

Tempest Zone

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Designated area within a facility where equipment with appropriate TEMPEST characteristics (TEMPEST zone assignment) may be operated.

Physical Security2 sources

Template

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1. 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...

Voting Systems1 source

Temporalballotrequest

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Used 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...

Standards1 source

Temporary Registration

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A registration to vote issued to voters who have moved overseas under certain conditions. Va. Code §24.2-443.1.

Voting Systems1 source

Term Limits

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A legal restriction that limits the total number of terms an officeholder may serve in a particular elected office.

Election Administration1 source

Term Of Office

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The 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.

Election Administration1 source

Termination Of Voting

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The 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...

Voting Systems1 source

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...

Certification4 sources

Test And Evaluation

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In the NICE Framework, cybersecurity work where a person: Develops and conducts tests of systems to evaluate compliance with specifications and requirements by applying principles...

Certification2 sources

Test Ballot

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A prepared to test a voting machine or system. Texas Elec. Code §127.094(c). BALLOT

Voting Systems1 source

Test Campaign

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The "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...

Certification2 sources

Test Cards

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A "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...

Voting Systems1 source
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