Voter Registration, Absentee Ballot Management

TEAM, the Total Elections Administrative Manager, is the result of NTS' more than 30 years of extensive experience serving the elections industry. Built using the power of Microsoft SQL, TEAM allows counties to quickly, efficiently and precisely process voter registration applications. During the last Presidential election year, millions of transactions were processed by our customers allowing the election to be conducted smoothly and accurately.

Features:

• Table driven voter registration to validate entered data
• Automated assignment of jurisdictions based on a sophisticated street file
• Extensive voter reports including lists, labels and export files
• Statistical reports based on demographics, affiliation, voting history and trends
• Absentee ballot management including regular absentees, over the counter, military and federal
• Poll worker management to track, manage and pay poll workers
• Extensive use of bar codes throughout the system including voter history, absentees and poll workers
• Sophisticated management and administration tools
• Compliant with all federal and state laws and regulations including NVRA and HAVA
• Full integration with statewide voter registration databases through the use of the Interface Messaging System.

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Election Night Reporting

Management of election tasks such as tracking candidates, petitions, elected officials and campaign finance filings is a snap using NTS' eSuite system. Incorporating years of real world election management experience, eSuite provides tools that integrate with your voter registration database as well as web based applications for voter lookup of information. In addition, eSuite is the choice for producing fast and easy election night results for display at the election office and on the web.

Features:

• Fully integrated with TEAM voter registration to calculate apportionments and signatures required for petitions.
• Tracks objections and creates necessary notices, reports and mail merges
• Keeps a database of candidates, appointed officials and elected officials
• Maintains campaign finance filing information for candidates and political committees
• Produces election night tally of unofficial results for web posting
• Identifies districts that have not reported their election results
• Automated error checking

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Voting Machine Management

Custodian, NTS' Machine Inventory and Management system provides you the tools you need to safeguard the chain of custody of your voting equipment and manage the assets that you have acquired with Federal, State and County funds.

Features:

• Ability to track assets in conformance with State and Federal guidelines
• Complete Chain of Custody tracking and reporting
• Multiple Management reports to trace machines through various inventory locations such as warehouse, polling place, repair facility, training centers, etc.
• Bar codes to simplify entry of information
• Complete repair history for each component of the voting equipment
• Management of supplies, disabled devices, etc.

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Full Document Imaging / Signature Digitization

NTS continues to be a leader in document imaging through the Sign-It and Image-It family of systems. Integration of NTS' imaging products allows election offices to manage and control one of their biggest headaches - paper. All relevant voter information is displayed along with voter registration, absentee and poll worker data to give a true picture of the voter.

Features:

• Digitized signatures for verification of absentee ballots
• Automated forms processing and image enhancement
• Capture signature and full document image simultaneously
• Compliance with retention and backup policies
• Full integration with NTS' suite of election management products
• Optimized for use with NTS Poll Book printing services
• Full audit trail reporting

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Voter Information Center

The Web based Voter Information Center takes the data from your voter registration and election management systems and allows the voter to access it through the web. Availability of this information over the web significantly cuts down on telephone calls to the elections office during the busiest time of the year and results in a high degree of voter satisfaction in the service provided.

With NTS' Web based Voter Information Center, from their computer, voters can:

• verify their registration
• determine their specific polling place
• obtain driving directions from their home to the poll location
• view a picture of the outside of the poll location
• acquire a list of elected officials in their jurisdictions
• see the actual ballot style that they will be voting
• determine the status of their request for an absentee ballot

No additional entry of data is required, all relevant information is pulled from TEAM and eSuite systems.

Hosted at NTS' location for simplicity of management and assurance of availability.

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Virtual DBA

Integrity, reliability and availability of voter registration and election information have always been important and these considerations are more critical now than ever before. It is the ultimate responsibility of the election officials to ensure that the data regarding your registered voters including signatures and images are safe, accurate and readily available for the conduct of elections. NTS is able to help in this regard through our Virtual Database Administrator Services. Use of these services allows you to focus on your core job - the conduct of elections.

Features:

• Generate SQL backup scripts
• Maintain SQL user ID and security information necessary for the operation of TEAM SQL
• Perform routine database administration tasks such as managing transaction logs
• Augment and work with IT staff for DBA purposes
• Tune SQL for best performance