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A Voting System
for All
New Yorkers

ExpressPoll®

Electronic Pollbook
ES&S' ExpressPoll application running on a hardened Microsoft Surface Go tablet, with custom Flip Stand enclosure

NOW CERTIFIED IN NEW YORK

ES&S is proud to announce the certification of ExpressPoll for New York — an advanced solution for voter check-in and Regional Results tailored to the state’s needs. 

The industry-leading ExpressPoll is designed to integrate seamlessly with ES&S’ Universal Voting System product family and tabulators, ensuring a smooth voting experience from start to finish. It is designed to meet the requirements of various election types and workflows, accommodating all state-required configurations. Jurisdictions across the U.S. are replacing outdated pollbooks with ExpressPoll, including states such as Delaware, New Jersey, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

An outline of the state of New York, with Monroe County highlighted, accompanied by images of the ExpressVote XL and DS950 voting equipment that will be used in the county.

Monroe County’s
new voting technology

Technology leaders, Monroe County, NY, will be the first county in the state to implement the paper-based ExpressVote XL Universal Voting Systems as its primary voting device for Election Day. In the spring of 2025, all voters in Monroe County will start using the ExpressVote XL for voting. Additionally, Monroe County will use the new DS950 high-speed scanner and tabulator for central scanning.

PowerProfile

Election Management and Voter Registration
A generic laptop displaying the PowerProfile voter registration and election management application
ES&S is the first vendor in New York approved for both county-hosted and vendor-hosted voter registration and election management solutions.

ES&S has supported voter registration in New York for over two decades. Our innovative VR system streamlines the voter registration process, enabling election officials to register voters, update records and manage voting districts easily.

Features include:

  • Absentee/Early/Provisional Voting
  • Street File (with full GIS integration)
  • Poll Worker Management
  • Out-of-the-box and customizable reports to meet evolving needs
  • Many more features we’d love to demonstrate!

What New Yorkers say about voting on ExpressVote® XL

Data obtained at Monroe County public demonstration, March 2023

Product photo: ExpressVote XL, full-face universal voting system, seen from the front


Potential voters rated their experience a 4.73 out of 5.
96% of potential voters STRONGLY AGREE that it was easy to:
  • Select their preferred language
  • See the ballot and candidate names
  • Make their selections or changes if needed
  • Review and confirm their selections before casting their ballot
  • Cast their ballot
Favorite features

Ordered by most selected favorite features

  1. I can verify my choices before casting my ballot
  2. I like having a paper record of my vote
  3. Everyone uses the same voting machine
  4. Environmentally friendly due to the smaller paper ballot
  5. I like the private voting experience

Designed and developed for New York

Your complete voting solution
Full view of ExpressVote XL full-face universal voting system, with privacy curtain raised to show the touchscreen interface and paper ballot review window
How the ExpressVote XL protects your ballot

Watch this video to take a peek inside ExpressVote XL’s new paper path to see how, by design, the voting machine’s mechanical components are software-independent — making it impossible to add, modify or invalidate votes after the voter has reviewed, confirmed and cast their ballot.

DS300 Poll Place Scanner & Tabulator

DS300®

Poll Place Scanner & Tabulator

ES&S’ newest purpose‐built scanner and tabulator, the DS300, seamlessly supports all poll place and vote center ballot scanning and tabulation from early voting through Election Day. The DS300 can also serve as a tabulator for absentee voting and during recounts and audits. This system was successfully used by Albany, Erie and Rockland counties in the June 2024 primary.

DS950 High-Speed Scanner & Tabulator

DS950®

High‐Speed Scanner and Tabulator

Let DS950 handle your absentee, early vote and Election Day ballot scanning and sorting without missing a beat. Albany and Rockland counties have successfully used this advanced technology and look forward to its impact in the 2024 Presidential Election in November.

Infographic titled How It Works: Ovals & Barcodes, featuring landscape printed ballots. Ballots with ovals and ballots with barcodes are counted by the same tabulator in the same way. The human-readable text of the candidate’s name appears on both ballots for voter verification and auditing purposes.

A trusted industry leader

ES&S ballot marking systems lead the nation. 
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Registered Voters in Counties with the ExpressVote XL
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ExpressVote and ExpressVote XL Units in Use Nationwide
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2022 Customer Satisfaction Composite Score (out of 5)

Security you can count on.®

We go to great lengths to ensure that all of our products and processes have safeguards in place to protect voter information. A mix of physical and technological controls work to prevent human error and threatening cyber activity.

ES&S security philosophy

Nothing is more important to ES&S than protecting America’s democracy by supporting secure, accessible and accurate elections. That’s why every ES&S product reflects our three-part security philosophy:

  • Design: All products are designed, without compromise, to meet the latest and ever-evolving standards in security, accuracy and reliability.
  • Testing: In addition to ES&S testing protocols, all tabulation systems are rigorously tested and certified by the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which reflects security and performance standards developed by scientists, academics and election officials. ES&S also takes security testing to the next level, executing penetration testing with independent, accredited laboratories. ES&S submitted our end-to-end voting configuration for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) critical product evaluation (CPE) at one of our nation’s leading research labs.
  • Implementation: The entire ES&S team is devoted to ensuring that each piece of technology performs as expected on Election Day, helping election officials uphold the laws of their jurisdiction, which mandate strict physical security and tight chain of custody of all voting machines.

Perhaps most importantly, ES&S’ essence — its very being — is predicated on supplying America with equipment and software for secure, accurate and accessible elections. All of us at ES&S hold ourselves and each other accountable for this mandate and are proud to serve a role in this noble purpose.

Committed to security partnerships
  • Department of Homeland Security – Election Task Force
  • Federal Bureau of Investigations – Election Crime Unit
  • Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency – Critical Product Evaluation
  • Elections Infrastructure ISAC
  • Information Technology ISAC
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Sector Coordinating Council
  • U.S. intelligence community
ES&S ballot marking systems use barcodes, a trusted technology. 

Barcodes are a trusted, tested, universal technology used in a variety of ways across many different industries to improve safety, accuracy, speed and efficiency. DMVs, pharmacies, hospitals, banks and food manufacturers all use barcodes. Tabulators read barcodes in the same way they read the oval positions on a paper ballot. Because barcodes offer a reliable way to accurately read information, the technology all but eliminates the possibility of human error (e.g. unclear marks, misinterpretation of voter intent).  

Watch our video How are Ballots Counted to learn more.
ES&S is American owned.

ES&S is 100% American owned by McCarthy Group and individual members of ES&S management. McCarthy Group originally partnered with the founders of ES&S in 1987 and for more than thirty years has supported ES&S as it has grown into the industry leader with solutions for each step of an election. ES&S’ stable partnership with McCarthy Group has enabled continuous investment in research and development, resulting in new and improved voting technology built with the highest standards of security that help election officials run secure and successful elections.

Illustration of RIT student researchers testing the ExpressVote XL

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers put the ExpressVote XL to the test

In 2021, an award-winning team of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) student researchers recently conducted extensive penetration testing of the ExpressVote® XL. After 10 days of extensive tests, they found the machine to be very secure – with zero attacks that could alter or manipulate a voter’s choices at the polls.

“There was nothing we could find—in either scenario—that someone can do to change a voter’s choices in the real world.”
– Ian Stroszeck, a fifth-year RIT computing security BS/MS student.

It was clear … the ES&S system would provide the safest, least disruptive voting experience, especially for senior citizens … There’s a good reason why all the other New Jersey counties who looked at this are buying the ES&S systems. For the same money, you get paper and a better machine overall.”

Voter approved

Quickly check in voters and serve up to 15,000 different ballot styles. This means no more picking and pulling ballots or wasting pre-printed stock — voters get in and out faster.

Illustration of an example NY polling place, showing a voter checking in, receiving an ExpressVote activation card, and two voters are using ExpressVote XL universal voting systems
Voters not only enjoyed using the new [ExpressVote XL] technology, but with the auditable paper trail, we can assure them that their vote is safe, secure and accurately counted. Poll workers said the election day went smoothly. We really couldn’t have asked for a better result.”

Universally accessible

ES&S follows all ADA requirements and works with voters with disabilities as well as advocates and experts in the field of accessibility to test our equipment firsthand. This valuable feedback helps guide our product development teams, and in turn, ensures EVERY voter can exercise their constitutional right to vote privately and independently on a universal voting system.

Developed with this input, our ExpressVote and ExpressVote XL include the following accessibility features, which can be used by voters without poll worker assistance.

Assistive technology connections and devices, as well as screen prompts, symbols and audio

To help voters navigate the vote selection process privately and independently.

Ensured voter privacy

To protect voter privacy, the printed vote summary card does not specify whether assistive devices were used to conduct a voting session.

Seated- and standing-height configurations

To serve both seated and standing voters.

Adjustable on-screen high contrast and zoom functionality display settings

To make on-screen text more readable.

The voter has the option to blank the screen for privacy.

Audio ballot option

Audio ballots are available in the voter’s selected language.

Here to support New York

Chris Wlaschin
Senior Vice President & CISO

Mac Beeson
Vice President, Sales East

Charlie Laramy
Sr Director & General Manager, NY Operations
Long Island Resident

Ingrid Giordano
Regional Sales Manager
New York

Tierra Williams
Regional Sales Manager
Manhattan Resident

Matt Lewandoski
Regional Account Manager
Manhattan Resident

Eric Evons
Account Manager
Queens Resident

Brenda Santana
Account Manager
Long Island Resident

Tenecia Harris
Account Manager
Manhattan Resident

Tobey Dingbaum
Principal Technical & Account Support Engineer

Tucker Omel
Senior Engineer, Sales

PLUS

  • 16 additional dedicated employees in New York
  • 87 Election Day site support personnel in 2020

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