Project Overview

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Project Overview

• Oregon Central Voter Registration Project
• Oregon Secretary of State
• February 2, 2005

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Project Goals

• Federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 requires
  all states to create a central voter registration
  database
• Develop a comprehensive voter registration and
  election management system
• Implement a successful multi-county production
  pilot in March 2005
• Bring the remaining counties into production by
  January 2006

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The OCVR Project

• Creates a single statewide database of all
  registered voters in Oregon that all county
  election officials will use to maintain voter
  records. This is the federal mandate.
• Creates an alternative election management
  application that will be available to all
  counties to replace existing systems. This is
  optional for counties.
• Transitions to ongoing comprehensive maintenance
  and support for the OCVR system to all counties

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Project Organization
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Technology Data Centers

• Three geographically distributed fully redundant
  data centers utilizing state of the art
  technology
• Fail over capabilities within each data center
  and among the three data centers
• Secure network connections through the Internet
  connecting to each county network
• System security in depth applying ISO 17799
  security principles

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Technology - Counties

• Saber Consulting surveying all county election
  offices for equipment needs (expected to be
  complete by February 11, 2005)
• HAVA funds are paying for identified printer,
  desktop, scanner, and peripherals needs in the
  counties
• Network hardware for state or counties is out of
  scope for this project

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Current Status Saber/SOS

• Application development is essentially complete
  and pilot counties are testing
• Data migration for pilot counties is in progress
  and on schedule
• Data center equipment is in test
• Pilot county hardware equipment is being procured
  and installed
• Training for pilot counties will begin in the
  next 2-3 weeks
• Production pilot is expected to start by March 7,
  2005

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What does this all mean to me?

• Saber Consulting is providing application and
  system maintenance and support
• County Election Offices and State will split the
  costs of the maintenance and support
• Project team will coordinate implementation,
  county hardware installations, security access
  with county IT contacts

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Wrap Up, Contacts, Website

• Upcoming Events
• Weekly conference calls with pilot counties
  through May 2005
• Monthly conference calls with non-pilot counties
  for status updates and scheduling to move to
  production
• Contacts
• Barbara Conway [phone] Mohammad Kanaan
  [phone]
• Julie Pearson [phone]
• Project Website Status reports are posted
  monthly

http//www.sos.state.or.us/elections/HAVA/ocvr.sht
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