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10/24/2018 Request for Information on the Dominion Voting system:

https://t.co/NCSMkKnoME

https://t.co/Od5IZ3fECG

 Table of Contents
Background 3.1
• Election Managmnt System: Global Election Management System (“GEMS”)
• In Person Voting Machines: AccuVote R6 and AccuVote TsX (“DREs”)
• Precinct Scanners & Tabulators: AccuVote-OS
• Statewide Electronic Pollbook System: ExpressPoll 4000 and ExpressPoll 5000
"During absentee in person voting, voters are able to vote in any early voting location in their county. Georgia would like to keep this option for early voting in any new system. On election day, voters must vote at their assigned precinct."

Equ. rights 14th amendment violaton?
3.2 Statistics
Polling Places: Approximately 2,365
DREs: Approximately 27,000
Precinct Scanners & Tabulators: Approximately 800
Registered Voters: Approximately 6,700,000 (92% Active Status; 8% Inactive Status)
Ballots Cast in November 2016 General Election: 4,165,405
Calendar and Future Methods

"The State Entity anticipates that Georgia will move to a method of in-person voting utilizing optical scan paper ballots; digital scanners and tabulators; and ballot-marking devices for voters with disabilities"
3.5 Basic Requirements

"An election management system, digital scanners and tabulators, and ballot-marking devices must be certified by the Election Assistance Commission to satisfy – at the
minimum – the VVSG 1.0 standard."
3.5 Basic Requirements (cont)

• Solution must have functionality to quickly and accurately audit voting records.
• Solution must support overlapping and concurrent elections....
• Solution must incorporate encryption and digital signatures as security measures.
3.6 Questions
1) Explain how your solution meets our needs for the following voting system
components:
• Election Management System

- The Election Event Designer (EED)
EMS
At the heart of our complete voting system solution is Democracy Suite... out of a single comprehensive database; mail-in ballots, in person voting, accessible voting, and Uniformed Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA)/Remote Accessible Vote By Mail (RAVBM).
Democracy Suite is comprised of two main modules: Election Event Designer and Results, Tally
and Reporting.

The Election Event Designer (EED) has all the tools needed to build the election project.
Election Event Designer
"From importing of your election data, ballot layout, audio, languages, machine settings to creation of
election files for each voting unit, Election Event Designer sets the stage."
"Election definition data may be entered manually or imported from voter registration systems
using the Election Data Translator utility. The Election Data Translator utility allows the import
of the election definition from State or County election files..."
"Templates used for creating custom ballot layouts and options can be reused from election to
election... Election definition data as well as
the templates used for creating elections allow jurisdictions to create uniform, easy-to-read, and
space efficient paper ballots."
"Election Event Designer uses the State or County geopolitical and election data to calculate the appropriate ballot styles and generate full-sized press-ready ballots in industry-standard PDF format. EMS lays out a variety of import ballot formats..."

To be continued...
"The ballot is 8.5" wide, and standard ballot lengths for the ImageCast Tabulators (ImageCast Central, ImageCast Precinct and ImageCast Evolution, which is an all-in-one ballot marking device, scanner and tabulator) are 11'' to 22'' ballots..."
"The number of voting positions depends on the ballot style and the length of the ballot. The system can generate and process a 22” double-sided portrait ballot that can accommodate 500 voting positions..."
Results Tally and Reporting
"Results Tally and Reporting (RTR) module allows for upload of results files from in-person and
central tabulation equipment.

The consolidated results are verified, tabulated and published...."
https://t.co/piCTlaMcX6
https://t.co/Y1WCf7eX12
"RTR offers maximum flexibility to create predefined reports in addition to a variety of standard election
day reports including, election summary, Statement of Votes Cast, Cards Cast and RCV round by round reports."
https://t.co/piCTlaMcX6
https://t.co/ck5JZOWKFk
"An additional efficiency built into the Democracy Suite RTR module is that reports can be generated as ballot processing continues uninterrupted. Under the current system, pulling reports causes a disruption to ballot processing."
https://t.co/piCTlaMcX6
https://t.co/Ckqut74q49
"This efficiency enables the City to better respond to the community requests for real time election data."

https://t.co/vDOzfBgVzZ

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