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I think you’re mistaken. I have catalogs of Avante’s
product line concerning elections, and they don’t show a ballot marking device.
The Avante Optical VOTE-TRAKKER is an optical ballot
scan system for reading absentee ballots. That was available when we reviewed
them in 03. But they didn’t then and don’t have now, a marking system. Just looked at their website and searched it for a
ballot marker, and there isn’t one. Al’s been looking at this far longer than anyone else
here, so maybe he has different information. Al? I think that it might be nice (and wise) to show to
the clerk and the BoCC that there are other competitive products on the market.
Otherwise we risk them believing that they are buying into another BETA device
like what we have from Hart. The ERC and just about anyone who had hands on
with the Ballot Now system from Hart would realize that BoCo was a test bed for
Hart. The ERC found that BoCo paid $130K for the privilege of tech support for
this beta product. The ES&S ballot marker has been around the block.
Not a beta device, but seemingly alone in the field. paul -----Original
Message----- Since Avante also has a
ballot marking machine, should we not refer to such devices
generically? I believe it was certified to the 2002 standards before
AutoMark was. And it is not being marketed by one of the big three
voting machine companies (ES&S), for what that is worth. Margit |