Richmond First Club Voting Process Analysis

Have you ever wondered exactly how the voting process works and what happens once you make that little check mark next to the candidate of your choice? Well thankfully these and many more questions were answered by Ms. Kirk Showalter at the October meeting of the Richmond First Club. An organization that since 1919 has been dedicated to educating the public on a variety of civic issues, policies and hopefully coming up with solutions to these problems. Focusing mainly on issues central to the Richmond, VA community this club has for almost a hundred years provided unbiased leadership and education in an effort to make not only Richmond but Virginia a better and more educated place to live. This was definitely accomplished in Ms. Showalters speech on Wednesday which brought to light all the different mechanisms working …show more content…
Most notably being the technology companies that provide the machines used to record each voters opinion as well as tallying all of those votes. Another important aspect provided by those companies is the cyber security systems that make sure that the voting system is kept secure and uninterrupted by hackers; who could potentially wreak havoc on the integrity of the American voting structure. Because of problems in the past with machines especially those produced by Advanced Voting Solutions (AVS) this June Virginia actually removed all of the machines made by AVS. Subsequently starting a new contract with Unisyn a company that utilizes a much better functioning, easier to use and secure voting system. This whole contract was reached with Unisyn because of their selling strategy of giving the State of Virginia the month of June free if they signed up for November a deal that really in the words of Ms. Kirk Showalter “was too good to pass up” and honestly sounds like a steal to me I mean who doesn’t like free