Cook (’Crook’)County, Illinois has been contracted with VOTEC for a number of years.
Some Key Points of the Cook County Clerk Elections Project:
Cook County released an RFP in late January 2012, awarded the business to VOTEC in September and work started in December 2012. Cook wanted a pilot deployment for the April 2013 election to include over a dozen tailored work flows based on their classification of special voter circumstances.
Illinois has municipal elections in February and April of odd years.
Cook County and VOTEC appointed project managers and applied intensive resources to the pilot rollout.
Cook County directed VOTEC to work with their affidavit of special circumstances and to make all functionality that applied to municipal elections available in the VoteSafe™ poll book for April.
By March 2013, the screens shown in the Cook County Judges Manual had been developed and tested. The pilot was run with 29 precincts, each with two laptops.
Biggest lessons learned were:
USB 2.0 makes the initial database load slower than we would like. Most of the laptops were therefore purchased with USB 3.0 and only after verifying a good load speed.
Easy to follow screens were critical to acceptance. The 75 page manual was intimidating. Actual use turned out to bring up few questions since Judges only had to focus on one issue at a time.
VOTEC Corporation Announces Electronic Poll Books to Modernize Ohio and Texas Polling Places
Written October 20, 2015 by Gary Gandy
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http://www.votec.net/products/cookcounty/
http://wbaa.org/post/tippecanoe-county-will-have-wait-test-new-voting-equipment#stream/0
My mom who lived in cook county when these machines first came out, never trusted them. They knew for decades how crooked Chicago politics were.