With the help of our new Pitney Bowes ReliaVote system at elections headquarters, we can now process 24,000 Vote by Mail ballot envelopes per hour. That’s pretty speedy.

The machine sorts envelopes by precinct to ready them for vote counting, and siphons out envelopes that have been marked as containing a spoiled ballot. By February’s presidential primary, we’ll also be able to use the machine’s digital imaging technology to check up to four ballot envelope signatures at a time.

We’ve blogged about the ReliaVote previously, but it’s tough to convey just how mighty and speedy it is. So here’s a quick live action video we made to drive the impact home. (This video is posted on YouTube, which requires Adobe Flash Player to view. If you don’t have it, you can download it for free.)

Election Day is around the corner, and we’re busy making sure your ballot envelope is ready for counting!