What is “Versa”?

ElectOS “Versa” is a software family that includes election management applications. ElectOS Versa is analogous to what is typically referred to as the “Election Management System,” or EMS, in traditional commercial voting systems. Election management includes both pre- and post-election functions, including election data management (e.g. contests, choices, precinct and district associations), ballot design (both paper and electronic versions), results reporting, and analytics.

ElectOS Versa applications are used to create election definitions and ballots which are passed to voting devices and tabulation PCs through secure removable media. In this way, the “election preparation” outputs are passed to the voting system components (i.e. ElectOS VoteCast).

ElectOS Versa includes:

• VersaClient
• Election Data Manager
• BallotMaker (ballot design studio)
• VoteStream (election results reporting)
• Analytics (follow-up reporting to state and/or federal officials)

-- From the ElectOS website