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Vendor and Manufacturer Guidance on Cleaning Voting Machines and Other Election Technology

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Clear Ballot

Best Practices for Device Cleaning - This document includes polling place infrastructure, ClearVote ballot tabulation and marking devices, and poll worker hygiene.

Dominion Voting

Customer Notification: COVID-19 (“Coronavirus”) Information – This document provides best practices on cleaning and sanitizing voting equipment, ImageCAST Tabulator surface cleaning instructions, and warnings about the use of other cleaning methods.

ES&S

Best Practices for Cleaning and Disinfecting Equipment – This document outlines tips for cleaning voting system equipment. To help maintain a sanitary voting environment and keep the terminal operating at maximum efficiency, complete the following steps. These steps apply to all ES&S devices that have a touch screen and may be conducted while the device is running.

Hart InterCivic

Hart Equipment Cleaning Recommendations – This guide provides guidance on cleaning Hart election equipment and other recommendations for voting locations.

MicroVote

Cleaning and Disinfecting Infinity Voting Equipment – These are the cleaning procedures for the MicroVote Infinity voting panel but they apply equally to all electronic products in the MicroVote system for purposes of disinfection.

Robis Elections Inc.

AskED Best Practices for Sanitary ePollbook Use – This document provides guidelines for e-pollbook cleaning.and sanitary e-pollbook use.

Runbeck Election Services

RES Cleaning Guidelines - This document provides guidelines for disinfecting and sanitizing equipment to promote a clean environment during the election process. The following guidelines are applicable to the Agilis, AgilisDuo, Sentio and Novus equipment. Additional information on Runbeck's response to the COVID-19 pandemic can be found here.

Unisyn

Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in Election Polling Locations – This document includes the recommended three-step approach to preventing the spread of illnesses like COVID-19 and the flu in election polling locations.

VR Systems

Best Practices for COVID-19 Precautions - The EViD cleaning guidance in this document, is what VR Systems recommends to prevent the spread of COVID-19, in conjunction with CDC guidance for election polling locations.