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KIUC selected the Merriman River Group to conduct the 2010 Board of Directors election.
The company provided full service election management and ensured process integrity from
start to finish by providing election programming, phone and online software, counting and tabulation.
The bar had been set high during the past seven elections, and the team at Merriman River kept that
standard as it lead us through our eighth election.
AlohaVote & Merriman River Group
Merriman River Group was founded in 1998 to
provide election management services for
organizations and political consulting services for
public candidates in areas where it does not
participate in election management.
The team has extensive experience in election
management. In 1990, the company was hired to
help supervise the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters (IBT) election, which the United States
District Court for the Southern District of New
York was overseeing under the terms of a consent
decree reached in the 1988 case of United States
of America v. International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, et al., and the Commission of La Cosa
Nostra, et al. (No. 88 Civ. 4486).
Election management services have earned
Merriman River a reputation for innovation,
accuracy and integrity. The company has been
selected to provide customized services on some
of the world'’s largest private elections, including
the 2001 and 2006 IBT international officer
elections, with multiple divisions and about 1.5
million members eligible to vote by mail.
By Matthew Fitch
Shelley Paik, KIUC Public Affairs Specialist
Photo by Shelley Paik
Merriman River offers advanced data, election
and communications services to private
organizations, public agencies, large corporations
and major universities. It recently concluded the
2008 National Leadership Index—the first report
in a multi­year collaboration between Merriman
River and the Center for Public Leadership at the
Harvard Kennedy School.
The company is pleased to feature VoterEdge
software, which provides secure data
transmissions, a simple and intuitive user
interface, voter anonymity, powerful data
collection and analytic tools. It has a fully
integrated Internet and phone voting system
working from the main database.
A division of
Merriman River
KIUC mail ballot volunteers
and Merriman River staff
separate the envelopes and
ballots for the election.
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