December Hustle & Bustle – Shows, Recounts, & Sales!
Like much of 2013, the month of December has been a whirlwind! Two weeks ago, we were balancing the winter election conference in our home state of North Carolina and the highly publicized Attorney General's race recount for our many equipment
Printelect’s Thanksgiving Feast!
This year's Printelect Thanksgiving feast was
Veterans Day 2013
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it's easy to get carried away naming the everyday comforts we're thankful for. Among those blessings, we most often count our families that love and support us, the food in our bellies, the shelter
Memorial Day 2013: Friends, Family, & the Fallen
Often times, we mark Memorial Day as the unofficial start to the summer. Most of us swarm the nearest swimming hole; whether it’s a beach, river, or lake. Gas prices rise conveniently for the travelers, and the necessary staples for
Printelect Helps Disability Rights NC Celebrate 5 Years!
Printelect Helps Disability Rights NC Celebrate 5 Years! Printelect was on hand to help celebrate the fifth birthday of Disability Rights NC, a North Carolina nonprofit organization that provides advocacy and legal services to individuals with disabilities, free of charge.
ES&S and Printelect Extend Partnership Through 2018!
Election Systems & Software and Printelect Extend Partnership Through 2018 ES&S and Printelect today announced the extension of their long-term partnership for the maintenance and support of voting tabulation equipment and software. The deal will see Printelect extend its partnership until
East Coast earthquake rattles primaries in Virginia
This article was originally published by ElectionOnline. To read the original article, please click here. We're glad that everyone remained unharmed during the East Coast earthquake on election day! East Coast earthquake rattles primaries in Virginia Despite rumbling, voting continues By M. Mindy
Stuck on you: Voter’s Approve of “I Voted” Stickers
Stuck on you Voters approve of “I Voted” stickers By M. Mindy Moretti Whether Democrat, Republican, Green or Independent, male or female, young or old, for or against a proposition, one thing for which most voters seem to have a common affection is
Longtime voters honored with induction into Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame
Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame inducted it's newest members in July 2011. For a link to the original article, please click here. Article Begins: Joseph D. Lewis Sr., 77, of Mahanoy City, registered to vote 56 years ago, after serving in the
DC Motivates Poll Chiefs Through Performance Bonus
Washington, DC is implementing a groundbreaking incentive system for it's poll workers. The district provided precinct captains with "report cards" that grade them on eight criteria, including opening/closing time, result/paperwork return, and other election day responsibilities. This innovative model of accountability and motivation was said to have had a big impact in last November's elections, and may catch on elsewhere in 2012. See below for the rest of the article, via Samuel Derheimer for Electionline.
District of Columbia offers performance bonus to poll workers
Bonus pay earned through election day performance and additional training
By Samuel Derheimer On November 2, 2010, I earned $300 from the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics (DCBOEE). Just over half my hefty haul — $160 — was my base pay for serving as a precinct captain, the chief Election Day worker for poll sites in D.C. A couple weeks ago, I learned I had earned an additional $140 in performance pay. Under a new program, D.C. handed out up to $140 in bonuses to precinct captains based on their performance on eight Election Day tasks. Accompanying the bonus was a report card detailing how we did on each task and whether we had earned the bonus: $10 or $20 per task. I was part of 30 percent of captains to earn ’em all (and so could proudly face Doug Chapin at work the next day). The bonus program was a response to a particularly troubled 2010 primary election in D.C. The 2010 elections were a bit of an Elections perfect storm here in our nation’s capital — granted, it was a self-imposed perfect storm, the result of the “Omnibus Election Reform Act of 2009.” D.C. introduced two new styles voting machines, a DRE and an optical scan machine. The city also introduced a new electronic pollbooks and offered election-day registration for the first time. And turnout was high due to the hotly contested mayoral race. Both voters and poll workers had to navigate the primary on a full precinct’s worth of new equipment and procedures.