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INTERVIEW
After the Where was the technology offered
registration of by Dominion Voting used so far?
the polling place,
the voter marks Mr. Obradovic: Primarily this includes
his/her voting list Canada, as our local market, and USA as
by circling the
elected candidates our largest and most complex market.
or parties. After This is understandable because in the
this, the voter USA some types of mechanical-electri-
immediately cal voting devices have been used ever
transmits this voting
list through one of since the end of the 19th century. One
our voting machines should consider that in the USA there
which immediately are elections for many purposes and at
analyze the person different geographic-administrative lev-
who received the
vote and provide els, from president and vice president
the voter to review to governors, senators, congressmen,
his choice on the judges, sheriffs and many other posi-
screen. When the tions. Every year there are several votes,
person has some
form of disability, an in many languages, some of which do
audio voting list can not have a signed form (such as Navajo).
be used, or some of The voting is also provided to people
the instruments that with disabilities, whereby the blind and
are integrated in the
very device the non-mobile people can vote on our
devices by means of many integrated in-
struments. This also includes the Philip-
pines, Mongolia, Puerto Rico etc. Each of
these countries has its challenges when
it comes to the voting, so one may say
that both developed and young democ-
racies decide to use our technology, re-
gardless of the complexity of their elec-
toral process.
What does the voting process spe-
cifically look like when it is being real-
ized with the technology of Dominion
Voting? What does the voter do when
he/she should vote? When are the vot-
ing results obtained?
Mr. Obradovic: The manner of voting
depends on the legal frameworks of each
country, thereby an appropriate techno-
logical decision from our range of prod-
ucts and services is applied. Hence, for
example, there is a case when paper vot-
ing lists are used, which are processed
by using special optical scanners. For ex-
ample, our devices Image cast, Precinct,
Evolution and Central, among other
things, also provide digital scanning of
paper voting lists. In this case, after the
registration of the polling place, the vot-
er marks his/her voting list by circling
the elected candidates or parties. After
this, the voter immediately transmits
this voting list through one of our voting
machines which immediately analyze
the person who received the vote and
provide the voter to review his choice on
the screen. When the person has some
form of disability, an audio voting list
can be used, or some of the instruments
that are integrated in the very device.
Another type of voting, which does
not exclude the previously described, is
the use of touch screens. Such type of
voting is similar to the use of a tablet
and of course, it provides use of audio
functions, as well as instruments for in-
valids. An example of such devices are
Imagecast Evolution and the Imagecast
X series, a voting terminal with touch
screens, with a different size, from 12 to
as much as 40 inches. All devices of the
Imagecast series have additional options
such as modems for wireless and wired
transfer of results from the very poll-
ing place, security systems with smart
cards, redundant systems for data stor-
age, thermal printers for printing the re-
sults etc. In addition, there is the option
to vote on the internet, by phone and
mail. Overall, there are different ways to
vote, however the most important thing
is to enable everyone to vote in order to
achieve large turnout in the elections
because this is the only way to reach the
truly democratically elected power.
The voting results are usually known
after the very closing of the polling
places. Namely, the devices during the
voting sum the votes regardless of the
complexity of the electoral process. Con-
sider that quite demanding algorithms
for votes’ counting are used in specific
countries whereby the use of digital sys-
tems is necessary.
Basically, the voter does not have
to come to the polling place in order to
realize his right. In Cambridge, Ontario,
you provided technology that allows per-
sonal voting, however also by the phone
or through the Internet. Also the voting
period does not have to be one day, but a
period of 16 days. How did you integrate
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