Secretaries of State Gather for Winter
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ES&S, the leading supplier
of voting machines in the United States, had an entire room to show off
its equipment. Mac Beeson demonstrates ES&S's Express Vote
which combines paper-based voting with touch screen technology.
About 100 counties were using the system in 2016, and other localities
made more limited use of it for ADA. The unit runs about
$3,500.
Also on display were scanner/tabulators and a state-of-the art
direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machine (that type of
equipment has fallen out of favor as election officials seek to ensure
a paper trail).
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Michael Greenman discusses
Dominion Voting Systems' AuditMarkR technology, which
stores an image of each ballot and adds a record of how the
scanner/tabulator interpreted the markings on the ballot. This
can facilitate ballot review and adjudication. Dominion is the
second largest supplier of voting machines in the United States.
The Canadian firm became a major player in the election
market in 2010 when it acquired some Diebold clients after DOJ
blocked Diebold's merger with ES&S; also in 2010 Dominion acquired
Sequoia Voting
Systems. Dominion recently hired a chief security officer.
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Hart InterCivic is another
suppllier of voting machines.
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This screen shot from Clear
Ballot shows its "vote visualization system." Election
officials can display the votes for a given contest, prioritizing the
least confident votes, then click on any one to view the entire
ballot. This can be helpful as they determine voter intent.
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Runbeck specializes in ballot
printing and election mailing; its Sentio™ Ballot Printing System
allows for on-site and on-demand printing.
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PCC provides voter registration
("used in 15 states to manage the records of nearly 54 million
registerd voters"), election night reporting, and election management.
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St. Louis based KNOW iNK's Poll
PadsR are electronic poll books that are designed to
make it easier for voters to check in. ES&S, Tenex Software
Solutions and VOTEC
Corporation, companies offering similar
products, also exhibited.
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Several companies displayed
mobile voting systems. Votem is based on blockchain distributed
ledger technology. Voatz, a Boston-based company using blockchain
technology, also had a booth.
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