Voting Equipment Database – Dominion ImageCast Evolution

The ImageCast Evolution employs a precinct-level optical scan ballot tabulator designed to mark and/or scan paper ballots, interpret voting marks, communicate these interpretations back to the voter (either visually through the integrated LCD display or audibly via integrated headphones), and upon the voter’s acceptance, deposit the ballots into the secure ballot box. The unit also features an Audio Tactile Interface (ATI) which permits voters who cannot negotiate a paper ballot to generate a synchronously human and machine-readable ballot from elector-input vote selections.

Voting Equipment Database – Dominion ImageCast Precinct

The Dominion ImageCast Precinct (ICP) is a hybrid precinct optical scan paper/DRE ballot counter designed to provide six major functionalities: ballot scanning, second chance voting, accessible voting, ballot review, tabulation, and poll worker functions. For ballot scanning functionality the ICP scans marked paper ballots, interprets voter marks on the paper ballots and stores the ballots for tabulation when the polls are closed.

Voting Equipment Database – Hart InterCivic Ballot Now

Ballot Now is Hart Intercivic’s software for printing paper ballots on-demand and scanning in and resolving batches of voted paper ballots. The Ballot Now system is most often used for tabulating absentee ballots, though in some central count jurisdictions is is used to tabulate polling place ballots cast by voters in ballot boxes.

Voting Equipment Database – Hart InterCivic eSlate

The Hart InterCivic eSlate is a direct recording electronic voting system where the voter turns a Select Wheel and pushes a button to indicate her preferences. The eSlate is connected via cable to the Judge’s Booth Controller (JBC; image above) which provides vote activation and vote storage for up to twelve eSlates. A poll worker issues a four digit, randomly generated Access Code to the voter using the JBC.

Voting Equipment Database – Dominion ImageCast Central

The Hart InterCivic eScan A/T voting device is equipped with an audio tactile interface (ATI) that enables a voter with disabilities to listen to instructions for using the ATI controllers and an audio version of the ballot, to make selections for each race or question on the ballot, to review all selections and make changes if necessary, and finally to cast the ballot privately and independently. Voters who use “sip and puff” or tactile input switches may plug their own assistive devices into the ATI controller and use them to operate it. While a voter is using the ATI device, other voters may continue voting and may insert their paper ballots into the eScan A/T at any time.

Voting Equipment Database – Hart InterCivic eScan (and eScan A/T)

The Hart InterCivic eScan is a precinct-based, digital ballot scanning system. After marking a paper ballot, the voter feeds it directly into the eScan at the precinct. The ballot image is stored as a Cast Vote Record (CVR) on a flash memory card that can be retrieved and tabulated when the polls close. eScan’s capabilities include functionality to reject overvoted, undervoted and blank ballots, thereby providing second-chance voting at the precinct.

Voting Equipment Database – Hart InterCivic Verity Touch Writer

The Verity Touch Writer is a standalone precinct level Ballot Marker Device which also includes an Audio Tactile Interface (ATI), which allows voters who cannot complete a paper ballot to generate a machine-readable and human readable ballot, based on vote selections made, using the ATI. Once the voter has completed voting, their ballot is printed onto regular ballot paper and following the county’s ballot processing procedures would be incorporated in the canvassing process.

Voting Equipment Database – Hart InterCivic Verity Scan

The Verity Scan is a digital scan ballot tabulator that is used in conjunction with an external ballot box. The unit is designed to scan marked paper ballots, interpret and record voter marks on the paper ballot and deposit the ballots into the secure ballot box. Verity 1.0 allows for entering write-in candidates on the fly or selecting from a list of certified write-ins. Additionally, write-ins do not have to be processed prior to tabulation. In the event that the county determines write-ins need to be processed individually, they can be processed in the tabulation system.

Voting Equipment Database – ES&S Model 650 (and Models 150 & 550)

Election Systems and Software has produced several high speed optical scanners of which three models are currently fielded in US jurisdictions: Models 150, 550, and 650. The different models differ in speed; the 150 is slower, suitable for small counties and for processing absentee ballots that have been folded for mailing, while the 550 and 650 are faster, more appropriate for large counties.

Voting Equipment Database – ES&S Model 100

The ES&S Model 100 is a precinct-based, voter-activated paper ballot counter and vote tabulator that uses visible light scanning to count and record voter information from paper ballots. The first machine to incorporate integrated-circuit image sensors into a ballot tabulator was the American Information Systems PBC 100 scanner, later known as the Model 100. The system, which came on the market just as AIS was reorganized into ES&S in the late 90s, uses an Intel 80386 microprocessor to process the data from the image sensor.