Universal Voting System
ExpressVote®
Built on a foundation of proven reliability, the new ExpressVote Universal Voting System offers improved security, performance and accessibility.
With a brighter, more responsive touch screen — delivering an effortless, smartphone-like experience — alongside a redesigned high-speed paper path and eight times faster startup. This system builds on a decade of proven Election Day success. The new ExpressVote is designed for the future, featuring flexible on-screen ballot layout capabilities and an assist mode to ensure a seamless and reliable voting experience for everyone.
Security features:
- Physical and system access controls
- System application controls
- Encryption, hash validation and digital signatures
- Audit logs
Visual aids include high contrast and zoom functionality.
Any language is supported in audio, and 30+ languages are supported in text.
The intuitive interface also alerts voters of ballot exceptions, such as undervotes.
Voters can independently enable assistive mode by pressing any keypad button or using their preferred two-position switch device, activating features such as audio and navigation. The front access panel ports facilitate quick connections for headphones and other accessibility devices.
Voters insert a card to activate the voting session. After voting is complete, the ballot is dispensed for voter review.
A versatile solution
Vote centers • Early voting • Polling places • Election Day
Integrated for easier election management.
Together with the ExpressPoll® electronic pollbook and ExpressVote® Printer, you can quickly check in voters and serve up to 15,000 different ballot styles. This means no more picking and pulling ballots or wasted preprinted stock — voters get in and out faster.
Easy election management
- Reduces costs by eliminating the need for printing and storing traditional preprinted paper ballots.
- Simplifies post-election management because there are no unclear marks to adjudicate. Voters are prompted in real time to address over and 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 it 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), enables all eligible voters to make their selections privately and independently.
- Improves voter confidence because the interface prevents voters from overvoting and alerts them to ballot exceptions, such as undervotes.
- Provides voters the opportunity to review their selections twice before tabulation — on the summary screen and on the printed paper ballot.
- Offers assistive mode so that voters can have their selections read back before printing their ballot.
Security you can count on.®
Physical and system access controls
- The ExpressVote 3 is designed to protect against tampering with pick-resistant keylocks and security seals, including during system storage, transport and voting.
- All users must enter security codes when executing administrative and election functions on the ExpressVote 3, such as accessing advanced settings and loading an election.
- The front of each unit includes an inactive slot for a smart card, which will be implemented in a future release to support multifactor authentication.
System application controls
- System functions are executable only 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.
- The ExpressVote 3 uses Secure Boot and application allowlisting, which verify only the certified operating system, software and firmware are on the unit.
- Only approved and certified components, such as USB flash drives, are accepted by the ExpressVote 3. This prevents any unauthorized data transfers or uploads on the unit.
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.
- Administrators can also validate the unit’s firmware directly on the unit. This function checks that every file on the operating system is exactly as was written during the Trusted Build by the Voting Systems Test Laboratory (VSTL).
Audit logs
- The ExpressVote 3 generates a detailed audit log, which can be exported for review and analysis, of all actions and events that have occurred on the unit.
- Every action and event — including access attempts, access of system functions and errors — is logged and time-stamped. The audit log is digitally signed each time an event is recorded.
ExpressVote 3 specifications
- Ballot style capacity: Up to 15,000
- Languages supported: Any language in audio and 30+ in text
- Assistive devices supported: Headphones, audio-tactile keypad, two-position switch device, sip-and-puff device
- Dimensions (H x W x D): Operational – 16.5” x 18.5” x 13”
Stored – 18” x 18.5” x 5” - Weight: 23 pounds
- Battery backup: 2-4 hours
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