generated: '2026-09-06'
method: probed
source: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/<vocabulary> — full pagination walk of each vocabulary
  on 2026-09-06
provider: Election Assistance Commission
providerId: election-assistance-commission
summary: 'Controlled vocabularies the EAC maintains and serves live over its JSON:API. These are the EAC''s
  own published terms, harvested verbatim from taxonomy_term collections — not a vocabulary API Evangelist
  invented for it. The certification and accreditation vocabularies are the ones with regulatory weight:
  four terms govern the status of every certified voting system in the United States, and two govern every
  accredited test laboratory. The EAC does not publish these anywhere as a vocabulary; they are only reachable
  through the undocumented API.'
vocabulary_count: 19
term_count: 315
vocabularies:
- id: article_type
  name: Article Type
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/article_type
  term_count: 2
  description: Whether an article is a blog post or a news item.
  terms:
  - Blog
  - News
- id: certification_statuses
  name: Certification Statuses
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/certification_statuses
  term_count: 4
  description: Lifecycle state of a voting system inside the EAC Testing and Certification Program. Applied
    to node--voting_system via field_certification_status.
  terms:
  - Certified System
  - Systems Under Test
  - Terminated Systems
  - Withdrawn or Decertified Systems
  note: Four terms carry the entire regulatory state machine for 117 voting systems. There is no "provisional"
    or "conditional" state.
- id: ch_award
  name: Ch Award
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/ch_award
  term_count: 2
  description: Clearinghouse (Clearie) Award tier.
  terms:
  - Honorable Mention
  - Winner
- id: ch_category
  name: Ch Category
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/ch_category
  term_count: 27
  description: Clearinghouse Award category — the programme areas the EAC recognises election offices
    for.
  terms:
  - Accessibility
  - Best Practices for Improving Accessibility for Voters with Disabilities
  - Best Practices in Recruiting, Retaining, and Training Poll Workers
  - Creative and Original "I Voted" Stickers
  - Creative and Original I Voted Sticker Design
  - Cybersecurity & Technology
  - Distinguished Voter Education and Communications Initiatives
  - Distinguished Voter Education and Communications Initiatives - Large
  - Distinguished Voter Education and Communications Initiatives - Small/Medium
  - Election Official Association Program
  - Exemplary Contingency Planning and Emergency Response Efforts
  - Exemplary Services to Assist Military and Overseas Voters
  - HAVA Grants
  - I Voted Stickers
  - Improving Accessibility for Voters with Disabilities
  - Innovation and New Tools in Election Security and Technology
  - Innovations or New Practices in Election Administration
  - Outstanding Election Official State Association Program
  - Outstanding Election Official State Association Program or Local Office
  - Outstanding Innovation in Election Cybersecurity and Technology
  - Outstanding Innovations
  - Outstanding Innovations in Election Cybersecurity and Technology
  - Outstanding Innovations in Elections - Large
  - Outstanding Innovations in Elections - Small/Medium
  - Outstanding Use of HAVA Grants in Election Modernization
  - Outstanding Use of HAVA Grants in Elections Modernization
  - Poll Workers
- id: document_category
  name: Document Category
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/document_category
  term_count: 122
  description: Document classification vocabulary applied to media--document. The largest controlled vocabulary
    in the estate.
  terms:
  - Absentee Ballots and Early Voting
  - Agency Financial Report (AFR)
  - Agency performance report
  - Agenda
  - Amendment
  - Annual report
  - Audit Work Plan
  - Ballot Design
  - Best practices
  - Biography
  - Changes to Certified Voting Systems
  - Charter
  - Checklist
  - Checklist
  - Checklist
  - Commission Documents
  - Congressional budget justification/request
  - Correspondence - States
  - Correspondence - Testing and Certification
  - Data set
  - Designees
  - Disability
  - Discussion questions
  - Documents under consideration
  - Draft
  - EAC Letter to State
  - EAC Operations
  - Election Glossary
  - Election Management Guidelines
  - Employee Satisfaction
  - Fact Sheets
  - Financial
  - Financial Statement
  - FISMA Report
  - FOIA
  - Form
  - Forms - Federal Standards
  - Forms - Voter Registration
  - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  - Funding Advisory Opinions
  - Future of California Elections
  - Glossaries of Election Terminology
  - Glossary
  - Guide
  - Initiative
  - Inspector General Manual
  - Inspector General Reports
  - Job listing
  - Letter
  - Limited English Proficiency
  - Long Lines and Wait Times
  - Managing Election Technology
  - Manuals
  - Materials and Research Submissions
  - Memo
  - Military and Overseas
  - Minutes
  - Motion
  - National Association of Secretaries of State
  - National Conference of State Legislatures
  - National Council on Disability
  - Natural Disasters
  - Newsletter
  - Newsletters
  - Notice
  - Notices of Clarification (NOC)
  - Participants
  - PCEA Public Comments
  - PCEA Public Meetings
  - Plan
  - Policies and Manuals
  - Poll Workers
  - Polling Places
  - Presentation
  - Press Release
  - Principles and Guidelines
  - Provisional Ballots
  - Quick Start Guides
  - Quick Tips
  - Remarks
  - Report
  - Reports - Election Admin. & Voting Survey
  - Reports - HAVA Funding
  - Reports - State Voting Systems
  - Request for information
  - Request for Investigation
  - Request for proposals
  - Requests for Interpretation (RFI)
  - Resolution
  - resolutions page - advisory board
  - resolutions page - standards board
  - Response
  - Response
  - Roster
  - Standard federal forms
  - State Plan
  - Statement
  - Statements & Resolutions
  - Statements &amp; Resolutions
  - Strategic Plan
  - Study
  - Summary
  - Survey
  - Tally Vote
  - Testimony
  - Testing and Certification Program Manuals
  - Transcript
  - Verbatim
  - Voter Education
  - Voter Guides
  - Voter Rolls and Poll Books
  - Voting System Advisory Notices
  - Voting System Certification Documents
  - Voting System Correspondence
  - Voting System RFP Repository
  - Voting System Test Plans
  - Voting System Test Reports
  - Voting System Testing and Certification Program E-Newsletter
  - Voting Systems Status Reports
  - Voting Technology
  - VVSG Public Comments
  - White Paper
- id: faq_categories
  name: Faq Categories
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/faq_categories
  term_count: 39
  description: FAQ grouping, heavily weighted toward HAVA grant administration.
  terms:
  - 2018 HAVA Security Funds
  - 2020 and 2018 HAVA Funds
  - 2020 CARES Grant
  - 2020 HAVA CARES Funds
  - 2020 HAVA Security Funds
  - 2020 HAVA Security Funds
  - About EAC
  - Accessibility
  - CARES and HAVA
  - Closeout
  - Closeout Process
  - Compliance & Oversight
  - EAC test1
  - Election Administration and Voting Survey FAQs
  - Election Administration and Voting Survey FAQs
  - Election Worker FAQ
  - FAQ test
  - FOIA
  - General FAQs
  - Guidance on Use of HAVA Funds for Expenses Related to COVID-19
  - HAVA Discretionary Grants
  - HAVA Election Security Grants
  - HAVA Grant FAQs
  - HAVA Section 251, 101, 102 Grants
  - National Mail Voter Registration Form
  - National Voter Registration Act
  - Post-Award
  - Pre-Award
  - QC_FAQ_Category_1
  - Research
  - Test Category
  - Test2
  - Testing and Certification
  - Voters
  - Voting System Certification
  - Voting System Testing and Certification
  - Windows Critical Update FAQ
  - Zack Test Category
  -  Guidance on Meeting Match in CARES Act Grants under HAVA 
  note: Contains a duplicated term, "2020 HAVA Security Funds", appearing twice as distinct terms.
- id: glossary_languages
  name: Glossary Languages
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/glossary_languages
  term_count: 7
  description: Languages the EAC election glossary is translated into.
  terms:
  - Chinese
  - English
  - Japanese
  - Korean
  - Spanish
  - Tagalong
  - Vietnamese
  note: '"Tagalong" is a misspelling of Tagalog in the EAC''s own published vocabulary, recorded here
    verbatim as harvested.'
- id: keyword_categories
  name: Keyword Categories
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/keyword_categories
  term_count: 26
  description: Top-level keyword grouping applied across EAC content.
  terms:
  - Accessibility
  - Annual Reports
  - Commissioners
  - Communications
  - Correspondence
  - Counties
  - EAC Board
  - EAC Offices
  - EAVS
  - Election Administration
  - Factsheet
  - Frequently Asked Questions
  - Inspector General
  - Jurisdication Type
  - Language
  - Manuals
  - Meeting
  - Payments and Grants
  - Reports
  - Research
  - State
  - Testing & Certification
  - U.S. Territory
  - Voter Registration
  - Voter Resources
  - Voting Systems
- id: manufacturer_types
  name: Manufacturer Types
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/manufacturer_types
  term_count: 4
  description: Corporate form (or inactivity) of a registered voting system manufacturer.
  terms:
  - Corporation
  - Inactive
  - Other
  - Partnership
- id: news_category
  name: News Category
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/news_category
  term_count: 8
  description: News item classification, including the regulatory categories Advisory Notice and Testing
    & Certification.
  terms:
  - Advisory Notice
  - Alert
  - Fact Sheet
  - PCEA
  - Press Releases
  - Resolution
  - Statement
  - Testing & Certification
- id: nvra_languages
  name: Nvra Languages
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/nvra_languages
  term_count: 3
  description: Languages in which the National Mail Voter Registration Form is published. Term names are
    given in the language itself.
  terms:
  - En Español
  - English
  - 中文
  note: Three languages only — English, Spanish and Chinese — against seven in the glossary vocabulary.
- id: ovr_status
  name: Ovr Status
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/ovr_status
  term_count: 3
  description: Whether a state offers online voter registration. Applied to node--state_election_information
    via field_ovr_status.
  terms:
  - No Online Voter Registration
  - Online Voter Registration
  - Voter Registration Not Required
- id: payment_years
  name: Payment Years
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/payment_years
  term_count: 28
  description: Fiscal years for which HAVA state requirement payments are recorded.
  terms:
  - '2003'
  - '2004'
  - '2005'
  - '2006'
  - '2007'
  - '2008'
  - '2009'
  - '2010'
  - '2011'
  - '2012'
  - '2013'
  - '2014'
  - '2015'
  - '2016'
  - '2017'
  - '2018'
  - '2019'
  - '2020'
  - '2021'
  - '2022'
  - '2023'
  - '2024'
  - '2025'
  - '2026'
  - '2027'
  - '2028'
  - '2029'
  - '2030'
- id: person_type
  name: Person Type
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/person_type
  term_count: 2
  description: Whether a person record is EAC staff or a guest blogger.
  terms:
  - Blogger
  - Staff
- id: resource_type
  name: Resource Type
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/resource_type
  term_count: 4
  description: Audience segmentation the EAC applies to its own guidance material.
  terms:
  - A Voter
  - A Voting System Manufacturer
  - An Election Administrator
  - An Election Researcher
- id: section
  name: Section
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/section
  term_count: 24
  description: Site section taxonomy, which doubles as the language index for translated sections.
  terms:
  - About
  - Chinese
  - Contact
  - Election Officials
  - Election Technology
  - ESTEP Program
  - FOIA
  - Grants
  - Inspector General
  - Japanese
  - Korean
  - Main
  - Media
  - National Poll Worker Recruitment Day
  - No Fear Act
  - OpenEAC
  - PCEA
  - Research and Data
  - Spanish
  - Tagalog
  - Testing and Certification
  - Vietnamese
  - Voters
  - Voting Equipment
- id: staff_departments
  name: Staff Departments
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/staff_departments
  term_count: 6
  description: EAC organisational units and statutory boards.
  terms:
  - Board of Advisors
  - Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
  - Executive
  - Staff
  - Standards Board
  - Technical Guidelines Development Committee
- id: state_voter_options
  name: State Voter Options
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/state_voter_options
  term_count: 2
  description: Which voter-facing information option a state election information record carries.
  terms:
  - Online Voter Registration
  - Voter Info
- id: test_lab_statuses
  name: Test Lab Statuses
  endpoint: https://www.eac.gov/jsonapi/taxonomy_term/test_lab_statuses
  term_count: 2
  description: Accreditation state of a Voting System Test Laboratory. Applied to node--voting_system_test_lab
    via field_status.
  terms:
  - Accredited
  - Expired Accreditation
not_harvested:
  note: The resource index advertises 60 taxonomy vocabularies. The 19 harvested here are the ones with
    domain meaning. The remainder are site-furniture vocabularies (uswds_classes, media_directories, galleries,
    quick_tips, ai_tones) or return empty collections (eavs_states, tags, subscribers, program_type, test).
  empty_confirmed:
  - taxonomy_term--eavs_states
  - taxonomy_term--tags
  - taxonomy_term--subscribers
  - taxonomy_term--program_type
  - taxonomy_term--quick_tips
  - taxonomy_term--ai_tones
  - taxonomy_term--galleries
  - taxonomy_term--media_directories
  - taxonomy_term--test
  - taxonomy_term--uswds_classes
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com