ESOVOTE-OCS ( Software Suite )

OCS ( Software Suite )

Unisyn OpenElect® Central Suite (OCS) is a Linux-based suite of software applications that works together to define and configure an election:

Complete Control over Your Election Process

The product suite provides maximum flexibility and customization while guiding the user through every step of the process
User friendly graphical interface, with familiar interface conventions
Consistent screen formats that make them easy to learn and easy
to use
Compiles and tabulates vote results
Provides reports by precinct, by district, by county and statewide

The Unisyn OpenElect Central Suite (OCS) works in conjunction with our 2005 VVSG Certified Linux-platform digital scan products:

Creates, checks, translates and produces ballot styles needed by a jurisdiction for an election
Creates and stores precinct and district information in a database
Camera-ready artwork is generated for all ballots
Supports multiple languages
Supports Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)

Converts the Unisyn election definition file to a Unisyn-specific encrypted XML format
Allows the jurisdiction to add voting device specific options
Flexibility to check contests for undervotes, whether to allow or disallow certain features and other options
Creates and manages Supervisor and Maintenance Technician logins and passwords
Produces a CD containing encrypted compressed files that are loaded onto the voting devices
CD is also used by post-election OVS components for election day
vote processing

Sets the correct system time on the voting devices
Uses the Election CD created by the Election Manager component to
download new election data (via a closed and secure network) to OVO
and OVI voting devices

Following an election, transport media (Flash memory) from each
poll location are delivered to a central count location, uploaded and
converted to a database format that the jurisdiction can use for Unofficial and Official Canvass Reporting
Retrieves, decrypts and transfers the vote files from the transport media to the Tabulator
Resides on the same PC as the Tabulator or on a PC that communicates with the Tabulator

Unisyn’s Tabulator receives and validates uploaded voting data and
provides a status of uploaded files
Provides Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) functionality
Uses the Tabulator database to store results from all precincts

Accesses data from the Tabulator Database to generate the necessary
Unofficial and Official reports
As precinct results are uploaded, the vote tabulator generates and updates a number of reports including:
Status reports
Consolidated Election Report, summarized by precinct
Voter Turnout report and other reports such as providing election
results to the media
The vote files maintain both an administrative audit trail and a voter
audit trail that provide capability to retrieve ballot images