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States like Hawaii (2014), New Mexico (2015), Arizona (2017), Washington (2018), and Pennsylvania (2020) all signed on with BPro for TotalVote; a system handling everything from voter registration to election night reporting. In February 2021, after receiving a huge injection of capital from a private equity firm, St. Louis-based KNOWiNK swooped in, acquired BPro, and took over these contracts, adding 450 jurisdictions to its already massive network of 980 using its Electronic Poll Pad system. Not stopping there, KNOWiNK expanded its reach by snagging Oregon in 2021 for TotalVote’s election night reporting.

Pennsylvania and Oregon had each signed over $10 Million contracts with KNOWiNK for a customized version of the TotalVote System, which was to replace their archaic and unreliable voter roll and election night reporting systems. Each state also requires independent project management oversight for multimillion dollar contracts, and selected Gartner, Inc. for that oversight. Without the status reports and risk assessments from Gartner, we would not have internal documentation of the serious issues that KNOWiNK failed to resolve.

Missed deadlines, scrambled data, programming issues and cybersecurity failures are a few of the many factors causing a deteriorated relationship between the state and the vendor, resulting in the State of Pennsylvania terminating the contract with KNOWiNK, putting them years behind schedule and back at square one.

In a recent check on the progress of Oregon’s version of KNOWiNK’s TotalVote System project dubbed ORVIS, it was discovered that the entire directory of ORVIS project documents posted on the Oregon Secretary of State’s website had been removed somewhere around the beginning of May. A phone call to the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office revealed that a stop work order had been issued to KNOWiNK to halt all work on the ORVIS project, while state officials determine how to proceed. All previously posted Gartner and Executive Steering Committee reports tracking progress of the project have been taken down and are not currently available online.

A Gartner oversight report dated October 2024 revealed the majority of project status benchmarks in the “red zone” or high risk category, two years behind schedule, over budget, again with KNOWiNK apparently not capable of meeting the terms of the contract.

A public records request for evidence of the stop work order did confirm that all work in Oregon has been halted. Millions of dollars have already been paid to KNOWiNK. Will the State of Oregon get their money back?

South Dakota is set to spend $4.5 Million with KNOWiNK for upgrades to the original TotalVote system; a program that was developed by the state and funded with South Dakota tax dollars, that was then assumed by a private, for-profit corporation called Bpro at the time. South Dakota has been paying this private corporation to host and maintain TotalVote, despite all government documents declaring the state of South Dakota owned the source code. The entire story of the inception of TotalVote and it’s roll in the 2020 election was detailed in this September 2023 article found here:
https://joehoft.com/shocking-exclusive-bpro-KNOWiNKs-uncertified-internet-connected-cloud-based-election-systems-are-foreign-influenced-and-used-to-illegally-process-election-results/.