Election Systems & Software history

AIS came out with a line of central-count ballot scanners that entered the marketplace in 1982.

McCarthy Group originally partnered with the founders of ES&S in 1987 and for more than thirty years has supported ES&S as it has grown into the industry leader with solutions for each step of an election.

In their sales presentations, ES&S emphasized that the iVotronic was essentially the same machine as the Votronic except for features added to bring it into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

The Votronic saw its first use in the 1996 primary season; one commentator said it resembled a large Magna Doodle.

American Information Systems acquired the Election Services Division of Business Records Corporation and was reincorporated as Election Systems & Software, Inc. in December 1997.

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.

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.

ES&S was one of the top four providers of voting equipment used in the November 2004 election.

ES&S acquired AutoMARK Technical Systems on January 28, 2008.

ES&S acquired Premier Election Solutions (formerly known as Diebold Election Systems) on September 3, 2009.

In June 2019, ES&S was wholly owned by "Government Systems, Software & Services, Inc," of which "McCarthy Group.