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RFP REVIEW COMMITTEE'S KEY FACTORS THAT GUIDED SELECTION OF THE PREFERRED VOTING SYSTEM VENDOR Vendor's state certified Election Management System requires all election management tasks to be performed directly on the server. This configuration will not work for Indian River County. The Elections Office servers are housed in a climate controlled, secure room monitored by 24/7 video surveillance, with key and security card access. The server room is the size of a closet and does not have any windows to allow for public viewing. There is no way the public could observe the tabulation process in the server room. Vendor's RFP noted that their proposed high speed central count scanner and tabulator (CCST) used for mail ballot tabulation, (the ImageCast Central DRS 976) provides a maximum capacity of 100 ballots in the input hopper and a rate of throughput for 11" ballots at 150 pages per minute. The vendor has proposed 2 units which does not meet the RFP's specs of a combined CCST full speed throughput of 600 ballots per minute. ELECTIONS SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE (ES&S) Vendor's state certified Election Management System includes four election management workstations. All election management tasks are performed on the workstations. Results housed on jump drives/flash drives are inserted into a workstation and ultimately transmitted electronically to the server located in the server closet. All workstations will be housed in the tabulation room in full view by the public. Vendor's RFP noted that their proposed high speed central count scanner and tabulator (CCST) used for mail ballot tabulation,(DS850) provides an input hopper maximum capacity of 480 standard ballots and capacity to scan and sort 14" double -sided ballots at 300 per minute. The vendor has proposed 2 units which satisfies the RFP's specs of a combined CCST full speed throughput of 600 ballots per minute. During the product demonstration, our staff unanimously agreed that the DS850 was far superior to the ImageCast Central DRS 976. Vendor's RFP requires ballot printers to be Dominion Vendor's RFP did not include any restrictions for selecti qualified. Vendor did not include in the RFP what the of ballot printers as long as the ballot paper adheres to qualifications are for a ballot printer to be Dominion qualified. the voting machine's published paper specifications. IRCSOE wants the flexibility to purchase the ballots from the vendor of their choice provided the ballot paper adheres to the voting machines published paper specifications. Vendor mentioned during their equipment demonstration that there is a fee charged to ballot printers for ballot printer qualification testing. Vendor's state certification requires two separate devices to transmit modem results from the polling site. A Verizon 295 air card is proposed to transmit modem results from the ImageCast Precinct Scanner's wireless external modem and a CeIIGO is proposed to transmit modem results from the ImageCast Evolution Scanner's wireless external modem. Vendor's state certification includes an internal modem. One Verizon 295 air card for each polling site provides transmission of modem results. Having only one modem device, eliminates any confusion for the election workers as to which modem transmission device is necessary for each type of voting equipment. Page 1 P174