Tampa, October 6, 2016 – Scytl, the worldwide leader in election modernization and online voting solutions received acknowledgment by The League of Women Voters of Texas (LWV-TX) for providing voters with a comprehensive and user-friendly election website. Six of Scytl Voter Education customers – Bastrop, Dallas, Denton, Gregg, Jefferson, and Lubbock – were given a perfect score and received the Excellence Awards recognition for providing outstanding election websites.
As a nonpartisan political organization, the LWV-TX encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in elections and government. Essential to informed citizens who vote is precisely the ease of access to election information. To this end, the study undertaken in August 2016 assessed the online availability and adequacy of election information on the existing 242 official county web sites in Texas. Of the 242 county websites evaluated, only 15 received a perfect overall score. Of these top 15 county website, 6 (40%) currently, leverage Scytl Voter Education technology.
“As with most Election Administrators, we wanted to make finding election information easy for our voters. Not only were we able to provide our voters with the information they seek, but we were able to reduce the number of calls made to the office around election time. Scytl Voter Education and Scytl Election Night Reporting streamlined our election procedures and we received nothing but positive feedback from the media and voters.” Bridgette Escobedo, Bastrop County Election Administrator
To date, 946 (31.5%) counties across the US will be leveraging Scytl technology in the 2016 Presidential Election. 20 of these counties have successfully deployed Scytl Voter Education providing election officials with a customized election-centric information web portal that quickly provides constituents with the information they seek and increases voter outreach. The combination of Scytl support staff and the user-friendly administrative portal, allows election offices to continuously update the content of election websites quickly and seamlessly without the need to rely on IT.
About The League of Women Voters of Texas
The League of Women Voters is a citizens’ organization that has fought since 1920 to improve our government and engage all citizens in the decisions that impact their lives. We operate at national, state and local levels through more than 800 state and local Leagues, in all 50 states as well in DC, the Virgin Islands, and Hong Kong.
Formed from the movement that secured the right to vote for women, the centerpiece of the League’s efforts remain to expand participation and give a voice to all Americans. We do this at all three levels of government, engaging in both broad educational efforts as well as advocacy. Our issues are grounded in our respected history of making democracy work for all citizens.
About Scytl
Scytl is the global leader in secure election management and electronic voting solutions. Specializing in election modernization technologies, Scytl offers the first end-to-end election management and voting platform, providing the highest security and transparency standards currently available. Scytl has capitalized on its more than 18 years of research to develop election-specific cryptographic security technology protected by more than 40 international patents and patent applications, positioning Scytl as the company with the largest patent portfolio of the industry.
Scytl’s solutions have been successfully used in over 42 countries across the globe over the last 10 years, including Canada, the United States, France, Norway, Switzerland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the UAE, India, Iceland and Australia. Scytl is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, with strategic offices in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Peru, and Greece, as well as field offices in the UK, Ukraine, Mexico, Malaysia, India, Bangladesh, and Australia. For more information, visit http://www.scytl.com.
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