Alameda County in California has 800-voting locations and each of these must receive five critical pieces of equipment. That’s 4,000 pieces of equipment that county officials have to make sure to get to the polling places and that must be returned after votes are cast.
The county had used a bar coding system with a supply chain management system to track voting supplies, but the bags still had to be manually opened and searched so the individual items could be scanned, says Tim Dupuis, chief technology officer for Alameda County. “It was very labor intensive and took forever,” he says. “It would take us all night and into the morning to account for all the equipment.”
To try and expedite the problem the county has chosen RFID technology, Dupuis says. The system uses passive tags from RFID Global Solutions Inc. and handheld scanners from Motorola Inc.
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