How Elections Run in Washoe County
Based on 2019, 2020, and 2022 information
Polling workers
Early voting
328
Seniors 61-70 yrs old
137
Election day
558
Seniors 71 or older
58
Polling locations
Early voting
15
Election day
30
Drop boxes
Early voting
15
Election Day
15
Counting locations
1001 E. Ninth Street, Reno, NV 89512
Areas of operation
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- Intake
- Main counting room
- Secure adjudication room
- Tallying room
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Certified Firmware/Software Electronic Voting Systems
2% sampling rate
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- 1,140 ICX machines used
- 1,129 with Verifiable Voter Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT)
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8 – Democracy Suite Election Event Designer (EED) 5.448.1
5 – Democracy Suite ImageCast Central (ICC) 5.4.3.1 with Canon M160 scanner
12 – Democracy Suite Adjudication (ADI) 5.4.17.5
8 – Democracy Suite Result Tally (RTR) 5.4.48.1
8 – Democracy Suite EMS Audio Studio (AS) 5.4.48.1
8 – Democracy Suite ImageCast Voter Activation (ICVA) 5.4.48.1
1 – D-Suite 5.4 ImageCast X (ICX) File 5.4.38.2
16 – Windows 10
No Certification
Auditory Tactile Interface (ATI) for visually impaired (headset and controller)
Sip ‘n Puff interface for those without use of hands
Facsimile machines
Flash drives
Online Systems for Voters
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- Voter registration (English, Spanish)
- Requests to hide identity
- Opt-out of registration (to voluntarily be expunged from voter rolls)
- Voter registration verification
- Voter preference: mail ballot form, permanent absentee form
- Opt-out of mailed sample ballot
- Opt-out of mailed ballot
- Polling wait times app
- Electronic ballot via email (Military, overseas, disabled)
- Ballot by facsimile machine
- NVease.gov registration and voting portal (Military, overseas, disabled)
- Ballot tracking
- Report complaints
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Ballots
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- Primary, general, city, special
- Sample, absentee, provisional, in-person, printed on-demand
- Paper, virtual vote by machine, and PDF Ballot
- ICX machine ballot (Created with Democracy Election Event Designer (EED) and Audio Studio (AS))
- ICX machine ballot with VVPAT tape
- Printed Ballots: English, Spanish, Tagalog, ADA-compliant
- ADA-compliant ballots: Braille, large type
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Methods of Ballot Transmission
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- Ballots cast in-person on a machine are loaded onto a thumb drive and transferred to another machine
- Provisional ballots are cast on a machine, separate from other ballots, and electronically transmitted to the Secretary of State for validation
- Drop box
- Facsimile
- Via NVease.gov
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Vendors for 2022
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- ERIC (Electronic Registration Information Center)
- Dominion Voting Systems
- Proficio (cyber security)
- Cortex XDR (cyber security)
- Security personnel staffing (unarmed): Allied Universal Security
- Temporary election staffing: My Next Career Path (Las Vegas) and A&A Associates (West Palm Beach, Fla.)
- Sample ballot printing and mailing: Metro Mailing Service Inc.
- Absentee ballot printing and mailing: K&H Integrated Print Solutions
- United States Postal Service
- Cloud storage
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