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1. Name: R.F. Shoup Corporation*
(now called Advanced Voting Solutions)
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)

4. Credibility
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5. Organization  
  A. Description:

A voting machine manufacturer that was one of two companies that made mechanical lever voting machines used throughout the United States for most of the 20th century. In the 1970s and 1980s they began producing optical scan and direct recording electronic voting machines.
  B. Mission:

Not listed

  C. Structure: *For-profit corporation. Founded as the Shoup Voting Machine Company in 1905, re-organized as the R.F. Shoup Corporation in the 1950s, re-organized again as Shoup Voting Solutions, Inc. in 1992, and renamed Advanced Voting Solutions in 2001.

  D. Members /
    Constituents:

Non-membership

  E. Annual Budget: Not listed
  F. Sr. Executive: Howard Van Pelt
  G. Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
  H. Contact Info:
Phone: (888) 908-8683   Fax: (972) 731-8924
E-Mail:  info@advancedvoting.com
Web Site: www.advancedvoting.com
  I: # of offices: 1
  I: Staff: Not listed
6. Relevant Affiliations: Founded in 1905 by Samuel R. Shoup as the Shoup Voting Machine Company
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