Election Systems & Software, LLC

Lobbying client

Election Systems & Software (ES&S), based in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest manufacturer and vendor of voting equipment in the United States, supplying machines to roughly 4,500 localities across 42 states, including New York City, which uses ES&S DS200 optical ballot scanners at its polling sites. It filed 33 disclosures since 2024 through four firms including Bolton-St. Johns and Greenberg Traurig, registered citywide across all 51 council districts, on procurement and oversight matters related to voting machine contracts.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
33
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$442,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Goods
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $176,003,520 awarded since 2010
Paid to date
$167,376,392
Won without a fresh bid
97% of contract value · $170,747,520 · 8 contracts
Based in
Omaha, NE (out of state)

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Bills named in their filings

Council bills this client referred to in its own lobbying filings.

City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).

Largest payments, by purpose

The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.

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