VoteHere Partners with The ElectionTRUST to Provide E-voting in North America; Election Technology Company Unveils New Reseller Program

Business Wire, July 15, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2003

VoteHere, Inc., a leading global supplier of secure electronic voting technology, today announced a partnership with The ElectionTRUST, a Seattle-based election management vendor serving the private sector, to resell VoteHere's RemoteVote e-voting platform.

This partnership will allow both companies to provide reliable, secure electronic elections to companies, associations, trade unions and other organizations throughout North America.

"VoteHere is pleased to be partnering with The ElectionTRUST as part of our new reseller program," said Pauline Warren, VP of sales at VoteHere. "The ElectionTRUST has brought together the best of today's election technology vendors to provide complete, end-to-end election solutions to a wide variety of customers in North America."

Through this partnership, The ElectionTRUST will incorporate RemoteVote into its portfolio of balloting services, including a 'hybrid' voting platform that enables a mix of mail-in paper ballots and eBalloting in one election. "Our partnership with VoteHere powers our election management expertise with superior E-voting technology," said John Bodin, managing partner for The ElectionTRUST. "We can now offer the most innovative, efficient and secure election solutions available anywhere in the private sector."

Also with this announcement, VoteHere is launching its first reseller program and is actively recruiting partners to resell the RemoteVote e-voting platform. RemoteVote is VoteHere's reliable e-voting platform which powers sophisticated, secure electronic elections world-wide for both public and private sector election markets. Voters can cast ballots via multiple voting channels, the Internet, touchtone telephone, cellular phone, digital TV and kiosks, from anywhere in the world, within a secure environment. For more information on becoming a VoteHere reseller, contact sales@votehere.net.

About VoteHere

VoteHere, inc. is a global software company, delivering advanced e-voting technology to election providers since 1996. VoteHere offers its partners innovative, secure, reliable, user-friendly e-voting solutions to support the growth of e-enabled elections that maintain privacy and ensure election verification. For more information about VoteHere, visit the company's website at www.votehere.net.

About ElectionTRUST

The ElectionTRUST provides Third Party election management for any Private Sector voting challenge. The company's election managers have executed 'mission critical' balloting for a national presidential political party primary, a Congressionally-mandated industry tax referenda, corporate governance balloting, as well as professional association and cooperative leadership elections. For more information visit the ElectionTRUST website at www.electiontrust.com.