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GLOSSARY OF ELECTION RELATED TERMS, ABBREVIATIONS

ADMIN : Administrator
AG : Attorney General
API : Application Programming Interface - a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software.
AWS : Amazon Web Services

BDF: Ballot Definition Files
BOS - Board of Supervisors

CA - Commonwealth Attorney ( DA equivalent in VA)
CSV (file): Comma-separated Values - a text file that has a specific format which allows data to be saved in a table structured format.
CTCL : Center for Tech and Civic Life, https://www.influencewatch.org/app/uploads/2021/12/Center-for-Tech-and-Civic-Life-2020-Form-990.pdf
CVR : Cast Vote Record

DA : District Attorney (CA - Commonwealth Attorney in VA )

DM : Direct Message

EAC : (U.S.) Election Assistance Commission
ECA: Electoral Count Act (of 1887)
EDA : Election Data Analyzer
EMS : Election Management System
ERIC : Election Registration Information Center - https://ericstates.org/
ES&S : Election Systems & Software

FB : Facebook
FEC : Federal Election Commission, https://www.fec.gov
FOIA : Freedom of Information Act
FOIL : Freedom of Information Law

GE : General Election
GJ : Grand Jury

HAVA : Help America Vote Act

L&A : Logic and Accuracy
It is a requirement that each county do what is called a "Logic and Accuracy" test before each election. Part of this test is putting a known quantity of ballots with known selections - including blank selections - through the whole process and verifying that the right numbers come out.

MOD : Moderator

NASS : National Association of Secretaries of State, https://NASS.org

OAN : One America News
OSINT - Open source Intelligence

PAC : Political Action Committee
PC : Precinct Committeeman, aka PCO or Ward officers
PCAPs : an application programming interface (API) for capturing network traffic. While the name is an abbreviation of packet capture, that is not the API's proper name.
POC : Point of Contact
PV : Project Veritas

RLA - Risk Limiting Audit - Per Virginia law, Ballots are pulled at random

SA - Secretary of Administration (VA equivalent of Secy of State)
SCYTL : Election Technology Solutions, https://scytl.us/
SLI : SLI Compliance , one of the leading election machine certification labs, https://slicompliance.com/insights/
SOE - Supervisor of Elections
SoS, SOS, S.O.S : Secretary of State - In VA - Governor appointed - Secretary of Administration

TG : Telegram
TriMin : Election Software, https://www.triminsystems.com/
TS: Truth Social

USEIP : US Election Integrity Plan (Colorado grassroots founded)

VC : Voice Chat (Telegram)
VSTL : Voting System Test Laboratories
VSS : Voting System Standards
VVSG : Voluntary Voting System Guidelines


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