EViD

What It's Used For

The Web Messenger sends and receives data between the county's voter registration database and the EViD Web Service, which in turn communicates with the EViD stations at voting locations.

Web Messenger must be running for the database export and during voting.

When Web Messenger is not running, its button on the EViDtab is red. When Web Messenger is running, its button has a normal appearance.

The Input Processor program processes transactions received from EViD stations into county database records. This includes transactions received over the internet and those from QLogs processed after the voting day.

Input Processor must be running during early voting and on election day.

Like Web Messenger, the Input Processor button on the EViD tab is red when the program is not running.

The EViD Maintenance program lets you define the individual configuration for each EViD station in your county, including BOD settings. These settings are included in the image copied to voting activators. When an activator is loaded onto an EViD station, the EViD finds its own individual settings and configures itself automatically. The use of EViD Maintenance is optional, because the settings can be done manually on each EViD station. However, manual setup is much more time-consuming.

Using the Options program, you define system-wide settings applying to all EViDs across the county. These settings are then copied to voting activators and from there to the EViD stations.

The Poll Place Maintenance program allows you to define the internet communications settings for each voting location where EViD stations are deployed. These settings are included in the image copied to voting activators. When an activator is loaded onto an EViD station, the EViD finds the settings for its location and configures itself automatically. Use of Poll Place Maintenance is optional, because the settings can be done manually at each voting location. However, manual setup is much more time-consuming.

Database Export extracts voter information and other data from the county database into a format that can then be included in an activator image for voting or voter outreach events.

Create Activator Image prepares an image that can then be copied to activators used for staging, voting, or voter outreach.

The Make Activators program copies the image created by the Create Activator Image program onto the jump drives that will be used as activators.

This online report logs activator-making activities for a selected election. It is intended to provide an audit of these activities but can also help flag activators that were made incorrectly.

The Process QLogs program copies—from the QLogs on jump drives to the county database—any transactions (voter check-in, provisional ballots, name and address changes) that were not transmitted over the internet during the voting day. Run Process QLogs after all jump drives containing QLogs have been returned from voting sites.

This program lets you review and re-process any transactions—transmitted over the internet or extracted from QLogs—that the system was unable to process when it first encountered them.

The Web Monitor program allows technicians at the elections office and in remote locations to view, in real-time, the status of all EViD stations deployed at voting sites.

With EViD Messaging, you can send messages to EViD stations running in your county. A message can be sent to the stations in a single location or to all EViD stations county-wide. You can also enable EViD stations to send messages back.

The Remote Tech Utilities program allows a technician at any computer workstation to remotely perform tasks on an EViD located in a different location such as a polling place. This ability to remotely control certain functions on an EViD can save the technician a trip to the voting place.

This report gives the county staff (as well as candidates and others who request information) an up-to-the-minute look at who has/has not voted in an election so far.

Running the Get Out the Vote Report