With OpenElect Version 2.0, Unisyn includes the Freedom Vote Tablet (FVT), a tablet ballot marking device that enables voters make their vote selections and to print their voted ballot. It can be used on Election Day or during an early voting period. Like the OVI-VC, the FVT is ADA compliant. It assists voters, with varying levels of ability, through the voting process, ballot review, and printing functions.
The Unisyn OpenElect Voting Interface (OVI) is a ballot marking device (BMD) that supports both ADA and In-Person Early Voting requirements. The first certified version of the OVI featured a 7 inch display (see image at left). With Version 1.1, Unisyn introduced a 15” LCD touchscreen as an option for OVI units (see below). The 15-inch display and is equipped to assist voters, with varying abilities, to prepare their ballots independently and privately. It presents each contest on the correct ballot to the voter in visual and, if needed, audio formats.
The Unisyn OpenElect Voting Optical (OVO) is a full-page dual-sided optical scan precinct scanner that scans and validates voter ballot pages and provides a summary of all ballot pages cast. The election is loaded from the OVS Election Server over a secure local network or using portable transport media.
The Liberty Vote (Dominion) 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.
The Liberty Vote (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.
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.
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.
The Liberty Vote (Dominion) ImageCast Central ballot counter system is a batch-fed central ballot scanner and tabulator using COTS hardware, coupled with custom-made ballot processing application software. The system is designed for use in a central scanning location, to process mail-in ballots.
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.
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.