Based in Austin, Texas, Hart InterCivic engineers products under three distinct umbrellas: voting solutions, geospatial system integrations, and print service. Their print service offers election-related items, including "Highly Secure Official Ballot Paper", "supply kits for the central count and polling places", but their geospatial projects are a little bit more interesting. One of their products, called Vantage, was developed to align the dimensions of individuals' personal information, such as "a property deed, tax bill, building permit and so on" and tie it to the geography of each person. Interesting.
Needless to say, Hart InterCivic is alive and kickin' in the e-voting arena, with many states on board with their hardware and software this fall. Their Election Catalog provides readers with a teasing glimpse of eScan, which is an optical scanner for paper ballots that looks similar to a shredder (and would cause hilarity and catastrophe in the same instance). Present also are the major voting machines Hart InterCivic produces, which is the eSlate and its relatives.
An in-depth look at eScan and its expansion packs(?) is coming soon.
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