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Voter Registration System

Voter Registration System: A distributed or centralized system that permits the collection, storage, editing, deletion, and reporting of voter records.

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A distributed or centralized system that permits the collection, storage, editing, deletion, and reporting of voter records. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) requires each state to have a centralized, statewide voter registration system (VRS). VRS have multiple interfaces and can interact with Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) systems, election officials, voters, and other stakeholders. The VRS may be vendor-provided or “homegrown”. They may be client-server architecture or mainframe based.

Alternative Definitions

Definition 2

Set of processing functions and data storage that maintains records of eligible voters. This system generally is not considered a part of a Voting System subject to the 2002 Voting System Standards.

Source: NISTType: standard
Definition 3

A distributed or centralized system that permits the collection, storage, editing, deletion and reporting of voter records. HAVA requires each state to have a centralized, statewide voter registration system (VRS). VRS have multiple interfaces and can interact with Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) systems, election officials, voters and other stakeholders. The VRS may be vendor-provided or “homegrown”. They may be client-server architecture or mainframe based.

Source: EAC IT Glossary for Election OfficialsType: external
Definition 4

A system that maintains records of those persons who are entitled to vote.

Source: Electronic Voting GlossaryType: external

Sources

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Glossary of Election Terms, U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
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Glossary for Voting Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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EAC Glossary of Terms
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EAC IT Glossary for Election Officials
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EAC Information Technology Terminology
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EAC Glossary of Election Terms
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Electronic Voting Glossary
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