18 The Future of Voting—Accurate and Transparent—in Saint Louis County After polling centers close on Election Day in Saint Louis County, Missouri, each site’s two supervising staff members place an iPhone in the ballot box, secure it, and travel by police escort to the county’s board of elections office. The iPhone uses GIS technology to deliver real-time location data that is displayed on a map. Eric Fey, the county’s democratic director of elections, monitors the progression of each box as he waits with his colleagues to receive the night’s final votes and announce election results. In Missouri’s most populous county, election officials use location-based tools to manage data, monitor operations, and communicate results for each election cycle.
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