On August 14, 85 leaders in elections management and GIS, representing 15 states, converged at The Eaton, Washington D.C., to share leading-edge findings and craft best practices to enhance the nation’s election system using GIS. With the 2020 Census on the horizon,...
Most election offices that implement GIS experience benefits from the technology’s accuracy and ease of use. Hawaii, however, also experienced the benefit of being able to adjust voter services when homes with outstanding ballots were impacted by a volcano eruption...
North Carolina had its sights set on audits – and on serving its 100 county boards of elections – when it started leveraging GIS in elections several years ago. Fast-forward to today and the State Board of Elections offers several audit tools and even...
Washington state began its Elections Modernization project in 2014, with the aim to improve their election management system. The implementation of GIS became a key tenet of that project, which is currently underway. Once complete, officials hope that GIS in elections...
Wisconsin’s elections are fully geo-enabled, after a conversion process that started in 2011. The state had concluded that implementing GIS would make the process of assigning voters to the right districts, following the 2010 census and redistricting, more efficient...
Utah had long considered integrating GIS data into its election processes, but it was the 2010 census that prompted the state to take action. Election administrators had observed that the changing of political boundaries at any level tended to expose the shortcomings...
