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Information presented on Federal Voting Assistance Program website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.
A public (or shared) computer is any computer used by someone other than you. For example computers at Internet cafes, libraries, hotels, airports, or shared work computers.
The computer may save some of your personal data in temporary files. We recommend that you delete all personal data from the public computer before logging off the system. Please check the browser's help file to determine how to delete any private data that has been stored during your session.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
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The Federal Voting Assistance Program encourages links to our World Wide Web pages. No permission is required to link to this site.
The appearance of external hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by the United States Department of Defense or the Federal Voting Assistance Program of the linked websites, or the information, products or services contained therein. The United States Department of Defense or the Federal Voting Assistance program do not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations.
All links are provided consistent with the mission of the Federal Voting Assistance Program.
Please let us know about existing external links which you believe are inappropriate.
This site includes several features designed to improve accessibility for users with disabilities. Some of these features are described below.
Images on the site contain 'alt tags,' which aid users who listen to the content of the site by using a screen reader, rather than reading the site.
Users can get information regarding the accessibility of PDF files from the Access Adobe website.
If you are having a problem with this site, please contact us via email at vote@fvap.ncr.gov, subject: Accessibility. Our Web Team welcomes comments on how to improve the site's accessibility for users with disabilities.
For site management, information is collected for statistical purposes. This government computer system uses software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration guidelines.
Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
Cookies: This site does not use persistent cookies (persistent tokens that pass information back and forth from the client machine to the server). This site may use session cookies (tokens that remain active only until you close your browser) in order to make the site easier to use. The Department of Defense and the Federal Voting Assistance Program DO NOT keep a database of information obtained from these cookies. You can choose not to accept these cookies and still use the site, but it may take longer for the pages to load. Refer to the help information in your browser software for instructions on how to disable cookies.
Below is an example of the information collected based on a standard request for a World Wide Web document:
xxx.yyy.com - - [28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500]
"GET /site name/news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0" 200 16704
Mozilla 3.0/www.altavista.digital.com
xxx.yyy.com (or 123.123.23.12)–this is the host name (or IP address) associated with the requester (you as the visitor). In this case, xxx.yyy.com, the request is coming from a commercial address. Depending on the requestor's method of network connection, the host name (or IP address) may or may not identify a specific computer.
Connections via many Internet Service Providers assign different IP addresses for each session, so the host name identifies only the ISP. The host name (or IP address) will identify a specific computer if that computer has a fixed IP address.
[28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500]–this is the date and time of the request
"GET /site name/news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0"–this is the location of the requested file
200–this is the status code - 200 is OK - the request was filled
16704–this is the size of the requested file in bytes
Mozilla 3.0–this identifies the type of browser software used to access the page, which indicates what design parameters to use in constructing the pages
www.altavista.digital.com–this indicates the last site the person visited, which indicates how people find this site
Requests for other types of documents use similar information. No other user-identifying information is collected.
Documents on this site are made available in several formats, based on a combination of factors, including the format of the original document, whether the look of the original document needs to be preserved, the availability of visitors to open different formats, and accessibility for those with physical limitations. This does not constitute endorsement of one commercial product over another. Note our disclaimer for external links.
If you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, please forward them to us via email at vote@fvap.ncr.gov
Last updated: 05.01.2008