New Tier Technologies Builds Credible HAVA-Compliant Centralized Voter Registration System for Various U.S. States
Election Management Software
Voter Registration
Overview
The product developed for eight U.S states is an enterprise-class, fault-tolerant and scalable election management software which provides a centralized HAVA-compliant voter registration system. Robust and automated tools allow the administrators and staff to streamline workflow and complete the election functions with high efficiency. New Tier Technologies, a CMMi 5 Level Company and an offshore partner of EDS, an HP Company, offers a wide range of consulting and integration services to address complex issues of an Election Management System or Cast Vote Records (CVR).
Our Client
In the United States, the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was a bipartisan effort brought 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. During the events that followed the Florida recount process, officials discovered numerous examples of inaccurate voter. The election office needed one comprehensive and secure web-based software system, to smoothly manage the voter registration and routine operations.
Challenges
The challenges of managing free and fair elections across the nation or its individual states are manifold and faced by governments all over the world. In particular, there are potential issues like duplicate voter registrations, fraudulent voting, incorrect voter information and time delays associated with the process of voting. In some countries, the individual states/municipalities use their own legacy voter registration and election management systems. Local election officials must maintain voter lists while meeting state and federal laws, yet no laws are in place mandating how these individual solutions were to operate. In addition, there were no provisions that allowed local election officials to maintain a ‘clean’ list by interfacing with important external agencies, such as death or felon records.
Our Strategy & Solutions
New Tier Technologies has the technical expertise and vast exposure needed to aid the governments to successfully overcome election management challenges. The key system modules in this application include voter registration, integrated imaging and barcode scanning, voter query management, address rules management, elections management (candidates and measures), absentee & polling place management, petitions & jury selection module. WE designed a fully customizable software, including role-based system security, user access module and the configuration module. It logged registered voters and allowed poll books to be printed at voting sites, as well as interfaces with other agency databases to maintain accurate records. The duplicate Voter Exchange helped the states to achieve interoperability goals without additional spending on infrastructure. The system modules also included district and precinct management, ballot and label administration, election workers and polling place management. This system aims at providing an end-to-end election management solution to election officials with all the functions performed within their office in one system. Our end-to-end Election Management Software is used to achieve the following goals:
1. Streamline the election management process with improved customer service
2. Improve efficiency
3. Resolve limitations of the legacy systems
4. Ease of implementation of changes with respect to an election legislation
5. Effective implementation across geographic areas
Technical Specs
VS 2008
Oracle 11
Crystal Reports
MVPC & SOA Architecture
Server Type
Qty
Hardware Requirements
Software Components
Database Server
2
4 CPU x 3.0 GHz Xeon Processor
16 GB RAM
1.5 TB Data Storage
Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
SQL Server 2005 Enterprise
Symantec - Norton Anti- Virus Corporate Edition
Symantec - Backup Exec Online Backup Pack
Web Server
2
2 CPU x3.0 GHz Xeon Processor
2 GB RAM
Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
IIS (ASP.NET 2.0)
FTP Services
Symantec - Norton Anti- Virus Corporate Edition
Symantec - Backup Exec Online Backup Pack
Application Server
2
4 CPU x 3.0 GHz Xeon Processor
8 GB RAM
Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
IIS (ASP.NET 2.0)
Symantec - Norton Anti- Virus Corporate Edition
Symantec - Backup Exec Online Backup Pack
Reporting Server
2
4 CPU x 3.0 GHz Xeon Processor
8 GB RAM
Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
SQL Server 2005 Enterprise
Symantec - Norton Anti- Virus Corporate Edition
Symantec - Backup Exec Online Backup Pack
Microsoft - SQL Reporting Services
Windows 2003 Active Directory Server
2
2 CPU x3.0 GHz Xeon Processor
2 GB RAM
Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
Symantec - Norton Anti- Virus Corporate Edition
Symantec - Backup Exec Online Backup Pack
Management Server
2
2 CPU x3.0 GHz Xeon Processor
4 GB RAM
Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
Microsoft - SQL Server 2005 Standard
Microsoft - Systems Management Services 2003 Server
Microsoft - Operations Manager 2005 Server
Symantec - Norton Anti- Virus Corporate Edition
Symantec - Backup Exec Online Backup Pack
Why New Tier Technologies?
New Tier Technologies, a CMMi Level 5 Certified Company, offers a bouquet of services to automate, digitize, and modernize your business network. An authorized partner of Hewlett Packard (HP), and Google, we are a global leader in providing next-gen consulting and digital services for business transformation. Our strong clientele across 50+ countries leverage our wide range of customized services to suit their business needs. At New Tier Technologies, we are committed to delivering high-quality solutions to build a long-lasting alliance. Our clients trust us as we empower them by:
