Friday, June 12, 2015

States Will Need New Voting Equipment for 2016 Elections


This post comes from the work of Mindy Moretti's at Electionline.

While issues like early voting, voter registration and voter ID have certainly grabbed the headlines of late, another elections issue will literally be in front thousands of voters in 2016, new voting systems.

Nationwide many states and counties will have to move to new voting systems for the first time in more than a decade in advance of the 2016 election cycle. For some jurisdictions the switch to a new voting system was mandated by state legislatures that wanted to move to paper-based systems. For others, it’s a matter of age.

Many states and counties replaced their voting machines following the 2002 election and in a world where people replace their phones every two years and personal computers almost as frequently, 10+-year old voting machines are, well, old.

Although budgeting and procurement are certainly taking center stage now, soon enough it will be training and voter education. It’s a lot to get done with an election calendar that grows shorter as more and more states jockey for position with their elections calendars.

CLICK HERE to read her 10 page report called "The rise of the machines".

And in New York, the "Clear Vote" central automatic ballot counting system is in testing, announced in their June 6, 2015 Board of Election meeting. In the meeting, the possibility of three primaries in 2016 (Presidential in April, Congressional in June, State in September) and the General Election in November, was discussed.











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