page_title: Election Systems & Software
section_title: Automark Technical Systems LLC
hierarchical_section_title: Election Systems & Software / History / Corporate Ancestors / Automark Technical Systems LLC
caption_attribution_description: English: An AutoMARK ballot marking device, made by Automark Technical Systems LLC, a division of Election Systems &#38; Software since 2008. Voters insert a full sized optical scan ballot in the front and then vote on the touch screen or with assistive devices such as the tactile keyboard in the lower right. The AutoMark prints vote marks on the ballot and returns the voted ballot to the voter for deposit in a ballot box or ballot scanner.
context_page_description: Election Systems & Software is an Omaha, Nebraska-based company that manufactures and sells voting machine equipment and services. The company's offerings include vote tabulators, direct-recording electronic machines, voter registration and election management systems, ballot-marking devices, electronic poll books, Ballot on Demand printing services, and absentee voting-by-mail services.
  ES&S is a subsidiary of McCarthy Group, LLC. In 2014, ES&S was the largest manufacturer of voting machines in the United States, claiming customers in 4,500 localities in 42 states and two U.S. territories. As of 2014, the company had more than 450 employees, more than 200 of whom are located in Omaha.
  In 2014, ES&S claimed that "in the past decade alone," it had installed more than 260,000 voting systems, more than 15,000 electronic poll books, provided services to more than 75,000 elections. The company has installed statewide voting systems in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, and West Virginia.
context_section_description: In 2003, Eugene Cummings filed a patent for a ballot marking device specifically designed to provide an accessible voting interface for optical-scan voting systems.
  Cummings, along with Joseph Vaneck founded Automark Technical Systems LLC to develop and manufacture the machine.  Prior to the availability of this machine, the Help America Vote Act of 2002 effectively required jurisdictions in the United States that used optical scan systems to install at least one DRE voting machine in each polling place.
caption: An AutoMARK ballot marking device.
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