Comprompter VoteMaster XL handles 1st
100% XML Election
La Crosse, WI
The
final Democratic Primary held in South Dakota was a first for
Comprompter’s new VoteMaster XL Election Night Reporting System. For the first time ever, VoteMaster
handles an entire election in which all Data Ingest, Printouts, Web Feeds
and CG Output were exclusively in XML format.
The
South Dakota Secretary of State recently completed a total rewrite of their
election results data output
software to distribute election results to their Internet Web
Site. The XML-based media site
performed extremely well. Comprompter wrote a SD-SS WebWire to ingest this
data and to parse it into the VoteMaster SQL Database.
Comprompter
CEO, Ralph King said, ”This project turned out to be a bit more than we had
planned on, but in the end, everything turned out just spectacular. I
really have to compliment the South Dakota Secretary of State, Chris
Nelson, and his staff for the job they did on their end. They were great to
work with.”
King continued, “instead of
transcoding the data into an ASCII text file first, we saved a lot of time
by processing the data directly in XML, storing it in XML then having
VoteMaster automatically draw out the finished XML data to a character
generator and to our web-posting module.”
The
Windows-based VoteMaster XL™ was released in 2007 to replace the
existing VoteMaster™ election system Comprompter has had out since
1987.
About Comprompter News and
Automation
Comprompter
is a La Crosse, Wisconsin
based company specializing in news and automation software for the
broadcast and cable industry and services clients from worldwide with
newsroom and automation systems along with auxiliary newsroom software for
elections, closings, Internet newscast publishing, and close captioning.
To find out more about VoteMaster
Election Night Reporting
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