Open Source Voting System Project Recommendations

(Approved by OSVTAC on March 14, 2019.)

Last posted: June 9, 2019

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10. Glossary

• adjudicate. [TODO]

• agile. [TODO]

• ballot. [TODO]

• ballot on-demand. [TODO]

• ballot type. [TODO]

• cast-vote record (CVR). [TODO]

• central ballot scanner. [TODO]

• commercial off-the-shelf (COTS). [TODO]

• comparison audit. [TODO]

• component. [TODO]

• digital ballot picture. [TODO]

• EIMS®. EIMS® is the software application that the Department of Elections uses for certain election-related functions like maintaining voter registration data, administering polling place information, defining ballot styles, and tracking candidate filings for office (see Appendix A of the City’s contract with DFM for a detailed listing of the required capabilities). The Department signed a nine-year contract with DFM Associates for the software in June 2011 (DFM contract, Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix D, Appendix E). The contract lists the per-year maintenance and support costs as ranging between $170,820.00 and $274,299.60 (see Appendix D of the contract for more detail).

• end-to-end verifiability. [TODO]

• firmware. [TODO]

• free and open source software (FOSS). [TODO]

• free software. [TODO]

• hardware. [TODO]

• hardware component. [TODO]

• open hardware. [TODO]

• open source software. [TODO]

• operating system. [TODO]

• outstack. [TODO]

• paper cast vote record. “an auditable document that corresponds to the selection made on the voter’s ballot and lists the contests on the ballot and the voter’s selections for those contests. A paper cast vote record is not a ballot.”[CEC19271]

  [Item added: Jan. 18, 2018 meeting.]

• precinct ballot scanner. [TODO]

• remake. [TODO]

• remote accessible vote by mail system. Software or electronic system that allows a voter with disabilities or a military or overseas voter to print a ballot (paper cast vote record) at home and return by mail.

  [Item added: Jan. 18, 2018 meeting.]

• risk-limiting audit (RLA). [TODO]

• software. [TODO]

• software API. [TODO]

• software application. [TODO]

• software library. [TODO]

• software service. [TODO]

• software stack. [TODO]

• stack. See ”software stack.”

• statement of vote. [TODO]

• voter verified paper audit trail. “a paper cast vote record containing a copy of each of the voter’s selections that allows each voter to confirm his or her selections before the voter casts his or her ballot for systems that do not contain a paper ballot.’[CEC19271]

  [Item added: Jan. 18, 2018 meeting.]

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