Maxim Consulting is a company dedicated to providing the highest quality professional services in the field of automated Election Management Systems. Few entities can boast the experience in Statewide Election Management Systems that Maxim Consulting can with over 50 years of direct experience.
A shining example of how a statewide system can provide uniform standards, stability and accuracy is in the State of Oklahoma. In 1989, the Oklahoma State Election Board began the installation of the Oklahoma Election Management System (OEMS). OEMS was the first comprehensive statewide election management system encompassing all of the functions of the electoral process from Voter Registration through Election Results. Maxim cofounders Shawn Teeters and John Rose were both instrumental in the initial design, development and deployment of OEMS as employees of Accenture (then Andersen Consulting).
In 2005, Maxim Consulting was instrumental in the modernization of Oklahoma's election administration with the creation of the Modern Election Support Application (MESA). MESA began as a response to the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which arose out of the national election crisis in 2000. MESA started as a statewide, centralized voter registration database. Since then, Maxim Consulting has worked for the State Election Board expanding the role of MESA to include full voter registration (county and state level), absentee processing, precinct and district management, election preparation, street guide, candidate filing, statistical reporting and most recently the interface with the new optical scan voting devices being deployed in 2012. MESA is built around an Oracle 10g RDBMS using TCP/IP communications utilizing Oracle Advanced Security Option (ASO).
Maxim Consulting authored the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Voting System Upgrades and Improvements Project required by Federal HAVA legislation and North Dakota statutes. As a member of the Voting Systems Procurement Committee, assisted the committee by performing the following tasks: defining voting system requirements, defining vendor qualifications, developing evaluation criteria, facilitating committee meetings and evaluating responses.
Developed the Oklahoma County Custom Election System (CES) to provide for the specific needs of the county that exceeded the mandate of the statewide system. It provides support for election official management, ballot style management, voting device tracking and specialized absentee voting procedures. The application was developed using a PowerBuilder, GUI client/server interface and a Sybase SQL Anywhere RDBMS.
