Cook County, Illinois Elects to Implement Optical Scan and Electronic Voting Technology from Sequoia Voting Systems.OAKLAND, Calif. -- After months of discussions, demonstrations and research, David Orr
David Duvall Orr (born October 4 1944) is an American Democratic politician who has served as Cook County Clerk since 1990, responsible for the third largest election district in the United , County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois Cook County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of 2000, the population was 5,376,741, making it the second largest county by population in the United States (after Los Angeles County, California), and accounting for 43. announced today that suburban Cook County voters will have the option of voting on either an optical scan voting system An optical scan or OpScan voting system is an electronic voting system and uses an optical scanner to read paper ballots. Types of optical scan systems Marksense systems One technology used are marksense or an accessible electronic voting machine with voter verifiable paper records. Both machines will be supplied by Sequoia Voting Systems Sequoia Voting Systems is a company based in California, and one of the largest providers of electronic voting systems in the US. Some of its main competitors are Diebold Election Systems and Election Systems & Software. of Oakland, California. "Cook County worked with the City of Chicago to conduct the most extensive review of voting technology options in the nation," said Sequoia President Tracey Graham. "We are proud that the Sequoia optical scan and verifiable electronic voting technology was chosen as the best match for the County's exacting specifications." Cook County voters will be able to cast a paper ballot at the polls that is read by a Sequoia Insight ballot scanner which will immediately warn voters if they have made errors in marking their ballot. To comply with the accessibility mandates of the Help America Vote Act The Help America Vote Act (HAVA, Pub.L. 107-252) is a United States federal law passed the House 357-48 and 92-2 in the Senate[1] and was signed into law by President Bush on October 29, 2002. , the county will also deploy the Sequoia AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C Edge touch screen with VeriVote printers that can be used by voters with and without disabilities to accurately and securely record their selections. In addition to federal election reform requirements for accessibility and voter notification, the State of Illinois also requires that electronic voting equipment provides a voter verifiable paper record for each voter's ballot. Sequoia pioneered the voter verification concept during the 2004 primary and general elections in the State of Nevada. During the presidential election, Nevada posted the lowest voter falloff fall·off n. A reduction or decrease: a falloff in car sales. Noun 1. falloff - a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in rate in the country at .237% which was just a fraction of the national average fall-off rate of 1.1%. The county will use federal Help America Vote Act grant funding to purchase the $23.8 million voting system. About Sequoia Sequoia Voting Systems has provided election services and support to state and local government for more than 100 years -- dating back to the nation's first lever-based mechanical voting equipment in the 1890s. Sequoia products and services include election management software, voter registration database management systems, precinct-based optical scan ballot readers, high-speed central count optical scan ballot readers, electronic voting technology and ballot layout and printing services. In 2005, Sequoia combined with Smartmatic Corporation of Boca Raton, Florida Boca Raton ("bōkə rə-tōn") is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida incorporated in May 1925. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. , to create the largest international provider of voter-verifiable electronic voting technology. |
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