Election Management Solutions

The Challenge in Managing Elections

Governments all over the world face challenges with managing free and fair elections: potential for voter fraud, duplicate voter registration records, inaccurate voter information and long lines to vote. Many counties and municipalities or localities utilize legacy voter registration and election management systems.

Local election officials must maintain voter lists while meeting state and federal laws, yet no laws were in place mandating how these individual solutions were to operate. Historically, there were no provisions that allowed local election officials to maintain a “clean” list by interfacing with critical external agencies, such as death or felon records.

In the United States, the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was a bipartisan effort placed into federal legislation following the 2000 presidential election. Congress enacted HAVA to ensure that all voters would be treated fairly and that no voter would be disenfranchised.

The Answer

HP's Elections Practice, which include solutions that administer Election Management, Centralized Voter Registration and the Duplicate Voter Exchange, have been developed from the ground up to assist U.S. states in implementing HAVA. Technology serving citizens is how we do it.

From voter list management to absentee voting, our solutions ensure the security and integrity of the election process. With HP you can automate virtually every aspect of election office operations to reduce risk and costs, maximize productivity, increase efficiency and standardize election workflow, all while meeting HAVA compliance.

HP's total solution encompasses:

Electus™ Voter Registration and Election Management – A highly customizable HAVA-compliant elections management and centralized voter registration system that is in place in eight states
Duplicate Voter Exchange – Helps states achieve interoperability goals without additional spending on infrastructure

Our solutions are built on a world-class, fault-tolerant, scalable and secure architecture. And we provide dedicated onsite application and end-user (counties and towns) support. Win voter support by improving the integrity of voter list management, eliminating duplicate registrations and making registration more accessible.

The Results

HP Delivers Smooth Election Results in 13 States

With the landmark election of 2008, no news was good news for EDS, now HP. The electoral process went off smoothly for it’s 13 election management clients. Voter Registration and Elections Management Solutions, comprising enterprise-class voter registration and election management software solutions, provided voter list management and election management functionality for about 20 percent of the U.S. population, or more than 40 million voters.

Our election expertise spans states from New York to Wyoming and many in between. We can help states increase efficiencies and resolve issues created by legacy systems. Modifications related to election legislation changes are easy to implement. You’ll gain faster, improved customer service with more effective voter registration across all jurisdictions. See our results:

Implemented the New York Voter Registration Project, NYSVoter, which was recognized by the Center for Digital Government in 2008 with an award for “Project Demonstrating Best IT Collaboration Among Organizations”
Met the State of Wyoming's 2007 HAVA plan deadline on time with a single, uniform, official centralized, interactive computer voter registration system
Produced a custom end-to-end election management in record time for the State of Maryland, meeting its 2006 HAVA deadline