The Populex Digital Paper Ballot™ is created with an easy-to-use computer-based touch screen system. In contrast to most other touch screen voting systems that collect and store votes electronically inside the computer, the Populex™ voting system prints a tangible voter-verifiable paper ballot card.

This ballot card is the official ballot. Each voter receives one card. The final ballot contains a bar code that is scanned to record and count the votes on election day. The same ballot card is the paper audit trail that must be available for manual audits and recounts as required by the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

The system is interactive, so the voter is guided through each ballot question, warned of potential errors and given a chance to make changes immediately in the privacy of the voting booth.

Those who are blind or visually impaired can vote privately using text-to-speech technology, fulfilling another requirement of the new Act. The Populex™ voting system also supports voting in multiple languages.