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| 1. | Name: | Advanced Voting Solutions, Inc. | |||||||||
| 2. | Voting Machine Position: | Pro to the question "Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process?" | |||||||||
| 3. | Reasoning: |
"The WINvote system offers a next generation touch screen solution that has a wider range of features, functions and benefits than any of the currently available systems on the market or any of legacy systems that preceded it. It uses leading edge wireless technology to shave operating costs, reduce the amount of time needed to prepare for and administer elections, streamline polling place management, and produce efficient election night accumulation and reporting operations." (From the company's website, accessed September 28, 2006) |
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Credibility Ranking: |
VIP/Organizations/OtherIndividuals and organizations that do not fit into the other star categories |
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| 5. | Organization | ||||||||||
| A. Description: | "Staffed with many of the industry's most experienced, innovative, and dedicated elections professionals, Advanced Voting Solutions (AVS) spun off from a century old election solutions enterprise in 2001 to offer cutting edge voting system technology to the modern elections marketplace." (From the company's website, accessed September 28, 2006)
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| B. Mission: | Not listed
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| C. Structure: | For-profit corporation | ||||||||||
| D. Members / Constituents: |
Non-membership |
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| F. Sr. Executive: | Howard Van Pelt | ||||||||||
| G. Title: | President and Chief Executive Officer | ||||||||||
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| I: # of offices: | 1 | ||||||||||
| I: Staff: | Not listed
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| 6. | Relevant Affiliations: | Founded in 1905 by Samuel R. Shoup as Shoup Voting Machines Company, re-organized in the 1950s as R.F. Shoup Corporation, re-organized again as Shoup Voting Solutions, Inc. in 1992, and renamed Advanced Voting Solutions in 2001 | |||||||||
