As of September, Irvine, Calif.-based DFM's election management software has been certified for use in California.

IVS LLC

Inspire Vote-By-Phone's e-voting technology was in wide deployment for the first time this year. Voters dial in via touch-tone phone to a computer system at a central location, monitored by election officials. The phones are situated at polling places, and a poll worker must key in his worker ID and a ballot-access ID, then hand the phone over to the voter. Louisville, Ky.-based IVS is certified for use in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Oregon and Vermont.

MicroVote General Corp.

As of September, DRE machines from Indianapolis-based MicroVote were certified for use in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee.