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The November 2000 Presidential election awakened the world and raised significant concerns about the reliability and integrity of the election system in the United States. Vote counting, re-counting and other tremendous confusions in the Florida election system begged for a change in our voting process. It became crystal clear that the time had come to embrace the new inventions and technologies in our election process. The VoteFromAnywhere™ (VFA) system has successfully solved major issues in our current voting system. |
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Our motto is to make our stakeholders (voters and election officials) successful and profitable by offering the true partnership. Our goal is to make our stakeholders true champions in their fields by providing innovative solutions to their problems, and delivering the quality product on time and within budget by "Cutting Cost not Quality". |
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The November 2000 Presidential election awakened the world and raised significant concerns about the reliability and integrity of the election system in the United States. Vote counting, re-counting and other tremendous confusions in the Florida election system begged for a change in our voting process. It became crystal clear that the time had come to embrace the new inventions and technologies in our election process. The VoteFromAnywhere™ (VFA) system has successfully solved major issues in our current voting system. |
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Please visit these sites for more Election News and Information: |
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Our Mission |
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Our motto is to make our stakeholders (voters and election officials) successful and profitable by offering the true partnership. Our goal is to make our stakeholders true champions in their fields by providing innovative solutions to their problems, and delivering the quality product on time and within budget by "Cutting Cost not Quality". |
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About Us |
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The VoteFromAnywhere™ (VFA) system is a product of Software Goldsmith Inc. (SGI). SGI is an innovative, creative and cost conscious software consulting company. It is uniquely positioned in this critically challenged economic market to excel by building a strong “Win-Win” relationship with their customers. Our goal is to offer cost effective and high quality solutions for most challenging/critical problems effecting our Government officials or business owners.Based on our experience on 2000 Presidential election in Florida, it became crystal clear to all of us that the time has come to embrace the new inventions and technologies in our election process to avoid these types of nightmares and we took this one as our personal challenge. We are well trained innovative and highly motivated people who are ready to take those challenges. Our goal is to provide quality product and services to our citizens and Government officials so that they can perform their duties easily. We also wanted to make sure that we offer quality service at low cost to make them successful during this economic crisis. As we all know that we live in the heist of computer technologies and we are blessed with Internet and wireless technologies that offer an unprecedented power of exchanginginformation and an ability to connect with each other instantly. We are taking advantage of state-of-the-art technologies in our VoteFromAnywhere™ product to offer an end-to-end online voting solution for our citizens and election officials. It will be a paradigm shift for all of us. It will change the way we conduct our voting today. It will allow our citizens to vote from anywhere using their laptop or mobile phone/devices. They don’t have to go to the voting booth if they don’t want to. However, it is important to mention that VoteFromAnywhere™ is not a replacement for the current voting system. It is just an addition to the current process for improving efficiency and giving opportunity to those stakeholders who need a change for better. |
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The VoteFromAnywhere™ is a cloud based enterprise application that can be accessed via web as well as mobile devices (e.g., phones, tablets and iPads). The security, integrity and privacy are the major concerns to any computerized voting system, which will be resolved by VoteFromAnywhere™ system. . This system will be developed based on cutting-edge technology in order to provide most secure and private voting system to our voters. All voters’ personal records and election data will be encrypted before sending it over the Internet protocol. Special encryption algorithm will be used to protect the privacy and security of the system. All data will be duplicated and saved in a redundant/fault tolerant machine to recover from major crashes or catastrophes. The ultimate goal of this system is to make the entire election process work seamlessly by integrating all aspects of election related activities (e.g., Voter Registration/Confirmation by election officials, Ballot Configuration and Creation by Election officials, Offering online voting for all voters, Absentee and Military Voting System Management, Conducting Polling, Tabulation, Results Integration and Reporting) under one system. For details click here The VoteFromAnywhere™ has been design based on two major roles: Voters and Election Officials, and our goal is to offer right solutions for them so that they can do their part easily and our election process can run smoothly. NOTE: It is worth mentioning that the VFA system is not the replacement for the current voting process or mechanism (e.g., voting machines at the booth, etc.). It is just an addition to our current election systems that are used by our States and it is absolutely dependent upon the State election officials to decide whether to discontinue the current voting machines or not. This is not our decision. |
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The VoteFromAnywhere™ (VFA)is an innovative, creative and most efficient system that allows voters and election officials to work in harmony under one single platform. The VoteFromAnywhere™ (VFA) system has successfully solved major issues in our current voting system. It allows voters to vote at their own convenience and from the privacy of homes, offices, airports, hospitals and even from out of country while they are serving in military or residing in overseas. This system brings the voting/polling booth at voters’ fingertips by allowing them to vote using laptops, mobile phones or handheld devices. The goal of VoteFromAnywhere™ system is to improve the current voting process by emphasizing the following actions:
This system will be available for 24x7 and it will allow voters to vote from anywhere at any time. It will also allow election officials to perform their activities (e.g., Creating electronic ballots, Verifying and confirming new voter’s registration, Keeping track of voting records/Audit trail, etc.) online at their own convenience. |
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Voting is one of the most important rights we have as US citizens.However, in order to vote and voice your opinion, you must first register to vote with the state in which you currently reside. In order to vote in the United States, you have to meet certain basic requirements. Regardless of what state you live in, you must:
If you are not registered yet, you can click here to register yourself as a potential voter and then you will be eligible to vote. If you are already registered then you can login to the voter’s panel and participate in upcoming elections of your state, city or county. The VoteFromAnywhere™ allows voters to register, vote via web or mobile devices and keep track of their voting records online so that they can access at any time. Moreover, it allows them to vote at their own convenience no matter where they are on Election Day even from home, work, overseas or at hospital bed. It increases voters’ participation. |
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Election Officials |
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Election officials and integral part of our election process and they play a significant role to make our election successful. Therefore, The VoteFromAnywhere™ system decided to offer better supports for them by offering right tools and techniques under Election Officials page. To access these tools, election officials need apply for an account. The process for applying as an election official is simple. To apply for election officials click here and register yourself as an election official for your state in which you currently reside and work. After receiving the information, VoteFromAnywhere™ administrative sub-system must verify those data for validity. If all the information is correct and in accordance to the eligibility criterion for that particular state, the person will be offered the right privileges to conduct his/her responsibilities via this system. Once the person is accepted as an election official for a particular state, he/she will be able to conduct the following operations:
If you are an election official, click here to login as an election officials |
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