Welcome to e-CERS

Description: Developing a complete online system for the Secretary of State and County Auditors to track candidate petition filing, campaign finance report filing, ballot certification and creation, election night results reporting, and county and state canvassing.

Features include the following:

  • Online management for the entire election process for statewide primary, secondary, general and special elections.

  • Automatic roll-over of races and candidates from Primary to Secondary and Primary to General elections

  • Automatic race and ballot creation with minimal input from County Auditors.

  • Automatic ballot submission to ballot printing company.

  • Voter Information Portal (VIP) allows public to view ballots and identify their polling location.

  • Candidate Voice Capture (CVC) integration for programming voting machines.

  • Integration with electronic vote counting machines (ex. ERM) and precinct level entry by County Auditors

  • Detailed results and reporting down to the precinct level.

  • Automatic calculation of race winners and possible recounts once 100% of precincts have reported for each race.

  • Automatic results updates every 5 minutes online and to the Associated Press and the media.

  • Interactive results maps with county / district / precinct level results.

  • Voter Turnout Results

  • Provisional Ballots Results

Designed in ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL Server 2000, and Crystal Reports XI.

 

In the News...

South Dakota

New Computer System Counts Votes Quickly

All of the primary election results came into the Secretary of State's Office an hour earlier than normal Tuesday night. It's thanks to a new computer system that was developed in South Dakota and used in other primary election states Tuesday.

Read more on Keloland.com

 

Montana

Secretary of State McCulloch

Successfully Launches NEW Election Night Reporting Service; Says Online Service Provides State's Most Detailed Election Results. 

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Election Results in One Click

The Secretary of State's website is pretty slick, easy to navigate and shows the results of every race in the state, complete with county-level data and district maps.

Missoula News/Big Sky Press

 

North Dakota

"The election website had over 150-thousand hits. Its the first time voters could get precinct information, ballot information and results all on the same page..." Al Jaeger/ ND Secretary of State.

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800.946.2776

605.224.8114

318 S. Pierre St., Pierre, South Dakota 57501