Voting Equipment Database – Premier Election Solutions (Diebold) AccuVote OS Central

The AccuVote-OS (also known as the AV-OS) is the same hardware scanner that is used for the precinct count optical scanning but it has a different embedded software (“firmware”) installed. Its configuration allows it to be linked with a number of other AV-OS units via a network whereby voting data can be sent into the GEMS server from many scanners concurrently scanning ballot batches. Firmware version 2.0.12 designates the machine is configured for ‘central count” as opposed to “precinct count.”

Voting Equipment Database – Sequoia Voting Systems Optech 400C

The Optech 400-C is a high capacity scanner used by election officials to count ballots in a central location. The Optech 400-C originally developed by Business Records Corporation and later by both Sequoia Voting Systems and Election Systems and Software. As the result of an antitrust settlement, ES&S ceased production of the Optech 400-C in 1997 but continues to service the equipment in many jurisdictions.

Voting Equipment Database – Sequoia Voting Systems Optech Insight

The Optech Insight and the Optech Insight Plus are optical scan machines, which are used to read and tabulate ballots at the polling place. According to the California Secretary of State’s 2007 Top-to-Bottom Review of voting systems, the major difference between the Insight and the Insight Plus is that the Insight Plus has an LCD screen for displaying messages to voters. On both models, there is also a small four-digit LED screen that shows how many ballots have been accepted since the polls opened.

Voting Equipment Database – Dominion ImageCast Evolution

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.

Voting Equipment Database – Dominion ImageCast Precinct

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.

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 – 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 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.