An election happens once, at full scale, with no opportunity to course-correct.
Most election offices run the operation on spreadsheets, email, and phone calls.
Election operations run to a fixed date on a compressed timeline. Thousands of workers are recruited and certified in weeks, hundreds of polling places are staffed with party balance and accessibility requirements, and sealed equipment moves under a documented chain of custody. When those pieces live in separate tools, the seams are where the operation breaks.
One operational record for the whole election cycle.
Kinetech Elections keeps workers, polling places, equipment, incidents, and communications on the same record. Election day runs against a live dashboard built from the data staff used the week before, and the post-election audit queries that same record.
From cycle setup to post-election audit on one record.
01 · Cycle setup
The election date is set, polling places are confirmed, equipment inventory is verified, and training is assigned.
02 · Recruitment and training
Applications open through a public portal and partner referrals. Eligibility and party balance are checked continuously, and certification comes before assignment.
03 · Assignment
Workers are matched to polling places and shifts by availability, role, party balance, experience, and travel distance.
04 · Logistics and accessibility
Equipment and supply kits are allocated, chain of custody starts at deployment, and each polling place's ADA assessment is documented before election day.
05 · Election day
A live dashboard shows open status, wait times, equipment issues, and coverage for every polling place. Field staff are dispatched from the same view.
06 · Close and audit
Equipment returns under chain of custody, hours flow to payroll, and the complete cycle record supports audits and public records requests.
Underneath every stage: role-based access, bipartisan oversight records where your board requires them, and an audit trail on every assignment, movement, and decision.
Built for the offices that run elections.
One operations engine, configured to each jurisdiction's election types, roles, and oversight rules.
Federal, state, and local elections from one operations record.
- Primary, general, special, and runoff elections, alongside early voting and vote by mail.
- Party balance tracked per polling place where bipartisan staffing is required.
- Chain of custody reporting for audits, certification, and legal challenges.
Municipal elections, run on their own or with the county.
- City, township, and special-district elections.
- Facility agreements with schools, churches, and community centers tracked per election.
- Poll worker hours exported to your payroll or finance system.
Statewide standards, training, and support for local officials.
- Training and certification tracked against statewide requirements.
- Post-election reporting for state boards and the Election Assistance Commission.
- HAVA accessibility documentation for each polling place in each election.
Bipartisan boards and the providers that serve smaller jurisdictions.
- Bipartisan oversight records for boards that require them.
- Election services delivered to smaller jurisdictions under contract or agreement.
- Open records and FOIA responses from a queryable, exportable record.
What your office gets on day one.
Poll worker recruitment
A public application portal, partner referrals, and roster imports, with eligibility, party affiliation where required, and background checks tracked per worker.
Training and certification
Courses in person, online, or hybrid, with certification tracked by role and by equipment and enforced before a worker can be assigned.
Scheduling and assignment
Workers matched to polling places and shifts by availability, role, party balance, experience, and distance, with reassignment when someone cancels.
Polling place management
Inventory, capacity, facility agreements, ADA assessments with remediation tracking, and opening and closing checklists for each polling place.
Equipment and chain of custody
Voting machines, poll books, and supplies tracked from warehouse to polling place and back, with seal verification and a timestamped custody log.
Election-day operations
A live dashboard of open status, wait times, equipment issues, and coverage, with mobile incident reporting and field dispatch.
Worker messages and payroll
Assignment confirmations, reminders, and day-of updates by email and text. Hours worked flow to payroll with 1099 and W-2 support.
Audit and public records
An unalterable audit trail on every assignment, equipment movement, and incident, ready for audits, certification, and records requests.
Every capability above is configuration, delivered and extended in two-week sprints.
Running election day for a large county board of elections.
Kinetech Elections runs election operations for a large county board of elections, across more than 350 polling places and 3,000 poll workers: recruitment, training, scheduling and assignment, polling place management including ADA compliance, equipment and supply logistics under chain of custody, and election-day coordination.
Leadership sees every polling place in real time on election day, and the full cycle, from recruitment through the post-election audit, sits on one record.
Built for a cadence no other public program runs on.
A record that outlasts the cycle
Equipment incident files stay with the machine across elections, so a device that failed once has a history before its next use.
One view on election day
The election-day dashboard pulls from the same data staff used all cycle, not from a separate status spreadsheet.
Ready for scrutiny
Chain of custody, bipartisan oversight, and ADA documentation are kept as the work happens, so audits and legal challenges start from a complete record.
The configuration is yours. The roadmap is yours.
Configured first, then extended where your jurisdiction is different.
Sprint 0
Your election types, roles, polling places, and oversight rules are mapped into configuration.
Delivery sprints
Two-week sprints with working software at each review, and voter registration and payroll integrations built early.
Acceptance testing
Your staff test a full cycle under their own roles, from recruitment to close.
Hypercare
Stabilization after go-live, a handover to support, and a user guide for every role.
Run it where it suits the jurisdiction.
White-Glove SaaS
We provide a single SaaS license, tailor support to your needs, and deploy on the cloud you choose. One subscription, one vendor, one invoice. Kinetech runs the platform; your team runs the election.
Your own environment
Jurisdictions with an existing platform subscription can run Kinetech Elections in their own environment. Kinetech delivers the application and provides ongoing services.
Established vehicles. Faster engagement.
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Built to the standard your program has to meet.
SOC 2 Type II · ISO 27001, 27017, 27018 · NIST SP 800-53 · HIPAA-ready · WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508. Built on a FedRAMP Moderate authorized platform. Applications can be deployed into FedRAMP Moderate or High environments where a contract requires it; commercial cloud as standard. Your office retains exclusive ownership of all data, documents, configuration, and audit logs, with real-time access through an OData connector for Power BI or Tableau, and structured exports plus a Certificate of Data Destruction on exit.
Certifications and attestations
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018. Reports are available on request to support vendor risk assessments.
FedRAMP where the program requires it
Built on a FedRAMP Moderate authorized platform. Applications can be deployed into FedRAMP Moderate or High environments where a contract requires it; commercial cloud as standard for programs without a federal authorization requirement.
NIST SP 800-53 and StateRAMP
Applications inherit platform-level control implementation and add engagement-specific controls. Delivery aligns with StateRAMP Moderate where required by state contract.
HIPAA
Business Associate Agreements are supported. Encryption, access controls, audit logging, and breach notification align with the HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules where an application processes protected health information.
Accessibility, WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508
Accessibility is designed in from the first sprint, not audited at the end. Automated scanning runs every sprint, and screen reader testing with NVDA, JAWS, and VoiceOver covers critical workflows before release. An Accessibility Conformance Report in VPAT format is produced as a delivery artifact.
Encryption and access
TLS 1.2 or 1.3 in transit and AES-256 at rest. Every environment uses an isolated database instance. Permissions are enforced at the data model, so a restricted user cannot reach protected data even through an API.
Cloud agnostic. Deploy on the cloud you choose. Azure, Google Cloud, and agency-controlled environments are supported alongside AWS.
See it with your election cycle.
Bring one election type and your polling place list. We'll show recruitment, assignment, and election day running in Kinetech Elections.
Already know it fits? Kinetech Elections is available through TXShare (#2025-018), Texas DIR (DIR-CPO-5958), GSA (GS-35F-160CA) and Texas TIPS (#220105).
Craig Smith, Partner, Kinetech PSN craig.smith@kinetechcloud.com 773-230-5157