Universal Voting System
ExpressVote®
ExpressVote is a reliable, secure and efficient system for election officials and their staff, poll workers and voters. The paper-based ExpressVote combines touch-screen voting technology with an integrated thermal printer to produce a paper record for tabulation.
Security features:
- Physical and System Access Controls
- Verifiable Paper Record
- Audit Logs
- Proprietary Flash Drives
- System Application Controls
- Encryption, Hash Validation and Digital Signatures
A versatile solution
Vote centers • Early voting • Polling places • Election Day
Together with ExpressPoll® electronic pollbook and the ExpressVote® Activation Card Printer:
- Quickly check in voters and serve up to 15,000 different ballot styles. No more picking and pulling ballots or wasting pre-printed stock. Voters get in and out faster.
- Increases the accuracy of identifying voters and their ballot style by searching for them by name, date of birth or voter ID.
An accessible system with a voter-verifiable paper record
Easy election management
- Reduces costs by eliminating the need for printing and storing traditional pre-printed paper ballots.
- Simplifies post-election management because there are no unclear marks to adjudicate. Prevents overvotes and alerts voters to ballot exceptions, like undervotes.
- Produces a voter-verifiable paper record that is scanned, tabulated and saved for auditing purposes.
- Prevents poll workers from giving voters the wrong ballot style since they don’t need to pick and pull ballots.
- Maximizes your investment because ExpressVote can be used many ways — in polling places and vote centers, during early voting and on Election Day.
Poll workers love it
- Shorter Election Day for poll workers — six steps to open and two to close — so they don’t need to arrive as early or stay as late.
- Small, lightweight and easy to move and store.
- No ink to replace on Election Day.
A great experience for voters
- Fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), ExpressVote enables all eligible voters to make their selections privately and independently.
- Improves voter confidence because the interface prevents them from overvoting and alerts them to ballot exceptions, like undervotes.
- In assistive mode, with headphones, offers ability for reading back the voter’s selections before printing the vote summary card.
- Provides voters the opportunity to review their selections twice before tabulation — on the summary screen and on the printed card.
Switching to ExpressVote in 2016 and transitioning to vote centers in 2019 — it’s been an easy transition for staff and poll workers. Marion County voters can vote faster, easier and anywhere.”
Canvass and hand count went very smoothly; that ballot was easy to read and easy to determine the voter’s intent. No overvotes.”
Security you can count on.®
Physical and system access controls
- The unit’s hardware is designed to protect against tampering, including during system storage, transport and voting.
- The ExpressVote uses physical and system access controls, including lockable doors, tamper-evident seals and access codes.
- The operating software provides security access controls to limit or detect access to critical system components, guarding against system integrity loss and availability.
- Only system-certified components are recognized by the ExpressVote.
System application controls
- System functions are only executable during election events, in the manner and order intended by election officials performing their duties.
- The system performs a self-diagnostic test at startup, which provides status and alerts election officials of errors.
Encryption, hash validation and digital signatures
- Election programming is stored on the system as an encrypted and digitally signed data bundle. Each time data is used, a hash validation is performed to ensure data integrity remains intact.
Audit logs
- The ExpressVote generates a detailed audit log of all actions and events that have occurred on the unit, which can be exported for review and analysis.
- Every action and event—including access attempts, access of system functions and errors—is logged and time-stamped.
- The audit log file is digitally signed each time an event is written to it.
Specifications
- Ballot style capacity: Up to 15,000
- Languages supported: Any language in audio and 12+ in text
- Assistive devices supported: Headphones, audio-tactile keypad, rocker switch device, sip-and-puff device
- Dimensions (H x W x D): Operational – 16” x 20” x 17” Stored – 17” x 20” x 5”
- Weight: 25 pounds
- Battery backup: 2-4 hours
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