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Platinum, on the Bering Sea coast, is a small town — it has fewer than 50 residents. But when it comes to local elections, administrators make sure that traveling even small distances within town doesn’t get in the way of voting. “We’ll go to elderly homes and present the ballots, because they, hard to get around for them,” explained Lou Adams, the acting tribal administrator for Platinum Village Traditional Council. She said that organizers present ballots in English and Yup’ik to make voting materials accessible to everyone. According to Adams, almost everyone votes. But it was a different story when it came to the last general election. Samantha Watson, KYUK.
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The Road to Widespread Deployment of Next Generation VVSG 2.0-Certified Voting Systems
William T. Adler, Theo Menon
Bipartisan Policy Center
The transition to next generation voting systems that conform with the federal Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) version 2.0 represents a critical opportunity to strengthen the security and accessibility of U.S. elections. VVSG 2.0, which was adopted by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in February 2021, establishes the most rigorous federal standards for certifying voting systems to date.
More than five years later, two systems have been certified to VVSG 2.0, and multiple systems are in the pipeline.
Even after a voting system has been federally certified, deployment does not happen overnight. States first have to certify it, procure it, integrate it into existing systems, and train workers to use it.
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