Hart Intercivic, Inc.

Ievgen Konovalenko

Drew Eldridge Tinney

James M Canter

Steven Joel Blachman

Robert J Scheibler

An electronic voting system is described that utilizes printed vote records (PVRs) in which a voter's vote selections are recorded in voter readable characters. Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques may then be utilized to scan the PVR to record the voter's selections. The OCR data is then utilized to generate the cast vote record. Thus, the electronic voting system directly interprets the voter selections from the PVR just as the voter sees the data. In this manner 'what you see is what you get' printed vote record data is provided for a voter's viewing and that same data is used to generate the cast vote record.

Optical character recognition of voter selections for cast vote records

Techniques for configuring and operating a network connected election voting system are provided. Voting devices are network connected to a voting system controller. Alerts are provided when a ballot becomes stranded on a voting device. The stranded ballots may be untransferrable ballots or interrupted ballots. A recovery mechanism is provided to obtain the data for untransferrable ballots. The alerts may be provided at a display on the voting device, controller or both.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Ievgen Konovalenko