Electronic Voting Systems
Replace Hand, Voice and Paper Voting
Ensure Privacy and Anonymity of the Vote
Speed Up Vote Collection & Reporting
Accommodate ``Distanced`` Voting in COVID-19 Era
Enforce Bylaws & Election Regulations
Electronic Voting Systems
Meridia has supplied America with electronic voting systems for over 50 years. Since 1970, our technology has assisted groups big and small reach consensus on critical issues. Our voting devices are simple, secure and reliable. Our voting software is intuitive, flexible and extremely easy to use.
America’s two largest legislative bodies – the U.S. House of Representatives (who helped design the system) and The New Hampshire House of Representatives are using the Meridia electronic voting system.
Official Electronic Voting System for U.S. House of Representatives
“The use of an electronic voting system helps us process the full markup votes among the 50+ members — accurately — in less than two minutes. By comparison, it used to take us 10 minutes to vote on a single item.”
-– Nancy Locke, Chief Clerk at Committee on Natural Resources
Who Uses Electronic Voting Systems
Local Governtment & Politics
Town and city councils and governments use electronic voting systems in town meetings to speed up the process, enable transparency, privacy and anonymity of the vote and create a permanent voting record.
Sorority/Fraternity, Education
Use an e-voting system to manage your fraternity or sorority elections, increase engagement, ensure privacy and anonymity of the vote, and record results for historic lookup.
Church & Religious Convention Voting
Read about electronic voting systems helping church and religious organizations resolve their differences quickly and efficiently. With our anonymous, secure, and easy to use voting devices, you’ll be done with the business session in no time.
Homeowner Associations & Co-Ops
Condominium, HOA or POA government bodies benefit from using electronic voting systems to avoid conflict of interest, increased voter participation, and ensure that a quorum is met every time.
Student Government & Collegiate Voting
Student governments need to vote to make decisions that affect hundreds, if not thousands of students on the campus. Learn more about how your school senate can benefit from an electronic voting system.
Charity and Other Conventions
See how Kiwanis saved $40,000 in one day by shortening the time they needed to vote at their annual meeting. Do you manage voting at a charitable membership organization and need help? Fill out the Get Quote form above.
Tribal Council Voting
Indigenous governance may be hard. The peoples of the numerous tribes that exist in the US and elsewhere need to know that their leaders have their back. They use electronic voting systems to get things done quickly and efficiently.
Team & Sports Club Voting
How do you elect team or club leaders? How do you reach consensus on rules and regulations? What’s the fastest and most accurate way to do it? Use an electronic voting system.
Meeting & Voting Security
Everyone involved in a business meeting wants the voting to be secure, accountable and accurate. Meridia provides a highly-secure system that works completely offline and can be configured to your needs, thus it cannot be accessed from the outside and can accommodate your specific event.
Visit our Electronic Voting Security page for full details. Here are a few highlights on how our system protects its integrity.
How Meridia Secures the Vote
Proprietary Radio Frequency (RF) protocol with multiple layers of security checks ensures that no one is listening.
The close-circuit system and relatively short range means that only the people in the immediate vicinity of the system can vote.
You can ask that we ship the system so that only specific keypads can work with the pre-configured base receiver (antenna).
Lost clicker can be prevented from voting by removing it from the (required) participant list.
The software allows for keypads to be assigned to individuals, while still keeping the vote results anonymous.
Case Studies: How Others Use Electronic Voting Systems
Town Hall Meetings
Town of Uxbridge
Learn about how an electronic voting system helps Town of Uxbridge in Massachusetts speed up the town meeting processes without trampling on citizens sensitivities.
Town of Leicester
Town of Leicester has been using an electronic voting system to help their constituents get their business done in private, secure voting session.
Church Elections
Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania
An audience response system enables the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania to vote on annual meeting measures in a fraction of the time the scantron systems used to take.
Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh used Meridia electronic voting system to gather feedback from their constituents using 7,000 clickers across 329 interactive presentations in 8 weeks.
Daymian Bartek
, Town of Rutland
John Galotta
, United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops
Erin Bakemeyer
, Kiwanis International
Joyce Peterson
, The National Auctioneers Association
Kelly J. Dumas
, Town of Uxbridge, MA
Ashlee Findlay
, Alpha Omicron Pi
Chelsea Gitzen
, Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board
How Do You Want to Vote?
Dedicated Polling Devices
Radio Frequency (RF) keypads offer what the internet-based voting options can’t – they work independently, as a closed-loop system using a proprietary communications protocol to ensure security and integrity of the votes. This option requires a purchase of the dedicated “voting clickers.”
Self-Paced Voting
Using iPads at your event, or from their own mobile devices or computers at home, your participants can go through the entire session, along with voting questions at their own pace. This option is relatively inexpensive, as the participants are using their own devices to vote.
Online Voting & Elections
With CloudVOTE online voting system, you can specify a list of participants who can vote and require them to log into the voting session prior to answering any of the questions. The so-called “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) system allows you to avoid the expense of purchasing/renting dedicated electronic voting system.
