Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy (2018)
Chapter: Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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"Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/25120.
Appendix F
Acronyms and Abbreviations
| ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 |
| ATM | Automatic teller machine |
| AVR | Automatic voter registration |
| BMD | Ballot-marking device |
| CAC | Common Access Card |
| CDF | Common Data Format |
| COTS | Commercial off-the-shelf |
| CVR | Cast vote record |
| DHS | U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| DMV | Department of motor vehicles |
| DoD | U.S. Department of Defense |
| DoS | Denial-of-service |
| DRE | Direct Recording Electronic |
| E2E | End-to-end |
| E2E-V | End-to-end-verifiable |
| EAC | U.S. Election Assistance Commission |
| EAVS | Election Administration and Voting Survey |
| EI-ISAC | Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center |
| EPB | Electronic pollbook |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/25120.
| ERIC | Electronic Registration Information Center |
| ES&S | Election Systems and Software |
| FEC | Federal Election Commission |
| FVAP | Federal Voting Assistance Program |
| GAO | U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| HAVA | Help America Vote Act of 2002 |
| ISAC | Information Sharing and Analysis Center |
| IT | Information technology |
| MOVE | Military and Oversees Voter Empowerment Act of 2009 |
| MPSA | Military Postal Service Agency |
| NAE | National Academy of Engineering |
| NAM | National Academy of Medicine |
| NAS | National Academy of Sciences |
| NASPAA | Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration |
| NASS | National Association of Secretaries of State |
| NCLS | National Conference of State Legislatures |
| NIST | U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NSF | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| NVRA | National Voter Registration Act of 1993 |
| ODNI | Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
| RFP | Request for proposals |
| RLA | Risk-limiting audit |
| SSA | U.S. Social Security Administration |
| STAR Vote | Secure, Transparent, Auditable Reliable Vote |
| UOCAVA | Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986 |
| USPS | U.S. Postal Service |
| VAEHA | Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 |
| VR | Voter registration |
| VRA | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| VRD | Voter registration database |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/25120.
| VSAP | Voting Solutions for All People (formerly the Voting System Assessment Project) |
| VSTL | Voting system testing laboratories |
| VTP | Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project |
| VVPAT | Voter-verifiable paper audit trail |
| VVSG | Voluntary Voting System Guidelines |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/25120.
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