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Build the run list
Ballot Buddy estimates how many ballots each style and each precinct needs. Your office approves the run list before the press starts.
The record gains Run list approved
Chain of custody for election offices
Easily prove your work.
Your office already prints the ballots, packs the precinct bags, signs the packout and brings the containers back. Ballot Buddy records each handoff as it happens. The log is finished before anyone asks to see it.
One package of ballots, start to finish
Six moments your office already works through.
The record is written at each one.
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Print and tag
Your office runs the same print job. An applicator presses an RFID label onto each package as it comes off the press, naming the styles inside.
The record gains Printed and tagged
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Pack out and seal
Two of your officials pack each precinct bag and sign off on the other's work. The seal number and both names go on the entry.
The record gains Packout signed, two officials
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Out to the polls
Your workers make the same drive out to the polling places. A wand read at the door confirms what is in each sealed bag without opening it.
The record gains Received at the precinct
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Back to central count
Your office checks the containers back in, as it does after every election. Your workers wand each bag as it arrives at central count. What has not come back shows on the log.
The record gains Returned
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Answer the audit
Your office sits down at the audit table with one log. Every seal number, both signatures and every read, in the order they happened.
The record gains Reconciled
- Run list
- Print & tag
- Packout
- To the polls
- Central count
- Audit
Six entries, no gaps
Nobody stopped to write the log.
It was written on the way past.
Every entry above came from work your office was doing anyway: an approval, a print run, two signatures, a wand read at the door. No one keyed it in twice and no one stayed late to assemble it afterward.
- Every packageTagged at the press. Readable without opening it.
- Every custodianNamed on the entry they signed.
- Every handoffTime, place and order, run list to audit.
How it fits your office
It records the process you already run.
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Keep your forms
Your workers keep the Election Day forms they already know. Alternates are there if your office wants them.
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Start where it makes sense
The chain can begin at the ballot order, at the press or at packout. Your office picks where the record starts.
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Set the quantities first
Ballot Buddy estimates the quantities, so the ballot order and the run list are settled before printing begins.
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Run it, or hand it over
Do it in house. Integrate it with your print vendor. Bring us in to consult, or hand us the whole election service.
Before the next election
Bring us the election you have to defend.
Tell us where the record breaks today — the packout, the transfer, the return — and we will show you where Ballot Buddy picks it up.
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