Benefits for Election Officials

Reduced costs associated with printing and mailing absentee ballots

Reduced time to get ballots to and from voters

Reduced need to locate and rent space for in-person voting

Reduced need to communicate polling location changes to voters

Reduced need to deploy personnel and equipment for in-person voting

Eliminates need for manual processes in traditional mail ballot processing, including:

• Retrieving ballots from the postal service and ballot drop boxes

• Opening mail ballot transfer cases

• Sorting and auditing paper envelopes for signature verification processes

• Sorting and auditing accepted ballot envelopes from rejected ballots

• Opening paper envelopes

• Flattening and preparing paper ballots for scanning and tabulation

Eliminates need for expensive mail sorting equipment and time-consuming sorting and auditing processes needed to conduct signature verification​

Efficiencies in signature verification, including:

• Easy verification of signature affidavits and accompanying documents, such as required ID, with no need to open and extract accompanying documents​

• Easy side-by-side viewing of affidavit signatures and reference signatures in voter registration records

• Easy data tracking of throughput, ballots received, ballots verified, and ballots decrypted and printed for tabulation

No human errors on paper ballots that require adjudication or manual duplication during scanning and tabulation​

Auto-duplication software to print machine-readable ballots with no need for manual duplication