Voting Equipment Database – ES&S iVotronic

The ES&S iVotronic is a direct recording electronic voting system with a touch screen interface that records votes on internal flash memory. A poll worker uses a device called a Personal Electronic Ballot (PEB; pictured above at left) to turn the machine on and enable voting. Voters choose their ballot language and then make their selections using a touch screen, much in the same way that modern ATMs work. When the polls close, poll workers move summary data from each machine onto the PEB. The PEBs are then transported to election headquarters or their contents transmitted via a computer network.

Voting Equipment Database – ES&S DS850, DS450, and DS950

The DS850 is a high-speed, digital scan ballot tabulator designed for use by election officials at a central count facility. The DS850 can scan and count up to 300 ballots per minute. It uses digital cameras and imaging systems to read the front and back of each ballot, evaluate the result, and sort each ballot into the appropriate tray based on the result to maintain continuous scanning and tabulating. Multiple criteria can be used to segregate ballots for review, including overvotes, crossover votes and blank ballots. Depending on the situation, ballots segregated in this fashion may not be counted and may need to be remade by the election inspectors.

Voting Equipment Database – ES&S DS200

The ES&S DS200 is a precinct-based, voter-activated paper ballot counter and vote tabulator. The DS200 possesses a 12” LCD touch screen, which is used to provide voters with feedback, such as an overvote warning. When the polls close, the ES&S DS200 prints out the voter logs so election officials can have a paper tally. Like the Hart Intercivic eScan, the Dominion ImageCast and the Premier/Diebold OSX, the DS200 captures digitized images of all ballots scanned. This allows write-in votes and problematic ballot markings to be processed using the digitized images, so that once the ballots are scanned, they need not be handled except in the event of a recount or audit.

Voting Equipment Database – Clear Ballot ClearCast and ClearCast Go

The Clear Ballot ClearCast is a digital scan paper ballot tabulator designed for use at the polling place. After a voter marks a paper ballot, her ballot is inserted into the unit for processing. The tabulator uses high speed, high resolution, commercial scan engines to simultaneously image the front and back of the ballot. The resulting ballot images are processed by the Intel NUC, an off the shelf miniature PC, which identifies and evaluates marks made by the voter.

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Audit Law Database – Georgia

GeorgiaAudit Laws Back to Audit Law Database State Summary In 2024, the Georgia legislature passed House Bill 974, which revised Georgia’s audit provisions in Ga. Code § 21-2-498 so that, as of July 2024, the statute requires “precertification risk-limiting audits.” Ga. Code § 21-2-498(b). The statute expands the number of contests subject to a risk-limiting…

Verified Voting Releases Guide Comparing Available Ballot Marking Devices

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Verified Voting Releases Guide Comparing Available Ballot Marking Devices Today, Verified Voting published a guide comparing the features of ballot marking devices (BMDs) available in the United States: “Characteristics of Currently Available Ballot Marking Devices By Vendor.” Download the guide here. The guide is intended to be a useful comparison chart between the various BMD…

Design flaw in Dominion ImageCast Evolution Voting Machine

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Author: Andrew Appel This article was originally posted at Freedom to Tinker on October 16, 2018. The Dominion ImageCast Evolution looks like a pretty good voting machine, but it has a serious design flaw: after you mark your ballot, after you review your ballot, the voting machine can print more votes on it!. Fortunately, this…

Testimony before the Pennsylvania State Senate Government Committee: Voting System Technology and Security

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Download as PDF The security of election infrastructure has taken on increased significance in the aftermath of the 2016 election cycle. During the 2016 election cycle, a nation-state conducted systematic, coordinated attacks on America’s election infrastructure, with the apparent aim of disrupting the election and undermining faith in America’s democratic institutions. Intelligence reports that have…

Testimony of Verified Voting to the Georgia House of Representatives House Science and Technology Committee

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Download as PDF Georgia’s voting machines need an update. The lifespan of voting machines has been estimated at 10-15 years.1 Purchased in 2002 Georgia’s voting machines are at the outside of that estimate. As voting systems age they are more susceptible to error, malfunction or security threats potentially losing or miscounting votes. Georgia is one…