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Electoral Management Body (EMB)
The organization tasked under electoral law with the responsibility for the conduct of elections. The EMB in most countries consists either of an independent…
Medium consensusElection Administration
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The organization tasked under electoral law with the responsibility for the conduct of elections. The EMB in most countries consists either of an independent…
Voter-verified PAPER TRAIL. Abbreviated VVPAT. A "contemporaneous paper record of a ballot prin ted for the voter to confirm his or her votes before the voter…
The secure transporter for a Hart InterCivic eSlate BOOTH. VOTING
Cryptographic algorithm designed for the protection of unclassified data and published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Federal…
In Mississippi, a local election officer who keeps order at the polls.
Device that partially automates the process of checking in voters, assigning them the correct ballot style, and marking voters who have been issued a ballot.…
Method of casting ballots by which eligible voters are mailed ballots and information packets by the local jurisdiction. Voters can return their marked…
1. Designation applied to encrypted information and the information systems, the associated areas, circuits, components, and equipment processing that…
1. The issues and offices to be voted upon in a jurisdiction or portion of a jurisdiction at a particular primary, general election, or special election.…
Organization that provides access to the Internet for customers or members. Examples include AT&T, Comcast, etc.
A term used by Election Systems & Software to refer to elemental elements of a ballot, including frame, office, candidate, question, response and text object.
NSA-approved products incorporating only UNCLASSIFIED components and UNCLASSIFIED cryptographic algorithms. This does include COTS, products approved by NSA,…