E-voting doesn’t mainly cut paper. It grows the “polling-place kit” business.
The moment Zentsuji City outsourced “operations support,” print spend moved from ballots to venue signage, inserts, packing, and transport. Where in the kit will your company win?
In the Kagawa gubernatorial election, some precincts in Zentsuji City will use electronic voting. It sounds like a story about fewer paper ballots. But in elections, the real danger isn’t “paper”—it’s downtime. The physical tools that prevent stoppages become the center of procurement.
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The key point this time is that, to implement electronic voting, Zentsuji City is running a nominated proposal process for an “Electronic Voting Operations Support Services Outsourcing” contract.
When a municipality simply buys equipment, a printing company often ends up with only small peripheral print jobs. But when a municipality buys “operations support,” it is implicitly assuming it will outsource the entire bundle of people, things, and procedures…
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