DC's New Voting Machines

The DC Board of Elections and Ethics yesterday demonstrated the city’s new voting machines to be used in the upcoming September 14th Primary Election, which is only 159 days away from today. The machines were purchased from Election Systems and Software (ES&S) http://www.essvote.com/HTML/home.html.















The M100 paper ballot optical scan voting machine (top) http://www.essvote.com/HTML/products/m100.html and the ivotronic touch screen voting machine http://www.essvote.com/HTML/products/ivotronic_rtal.html (bottom) were on display during the Board’s regularly scheduled meeting. The ivotronic is accessible for voters who are blind or with low vision capabilities and mobility disabilities.

At the Board’s public meeting, ES&S representatives emphasized the voter-verifiable voter record as required by D.C. Law 18-103, the Omnibus Election Reform Act of 2009. After the meeting, members of the public were invited to vote on the machines.