Title :
A Document Analysis System for Supporting Electronic Voting Research
Author :
Lopresti, Daniel ; Nagy, George ; Smith, Elisa Barney
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA
Abstract :
As a result of well-publicized security concerns with direct recording electronic (DRE) voting, there is a growing call for systems that employ some form of paper artifact to provide a verifiable physical record of a voter´s choices. In this paper, we present a system we are developing to support a multi-institution, cross-disciplinary research project examining issues that arise when paper ballots are used in elections. We survey the motivating factors behind our work, discuss the special constraints raised in processing ballots as opposed to more general document images, and describe the current status of our system.
Keywords :
document image processing; government data processing; security of data; data security; direct recording electronic voting; document analysis system; election; paper ballot; Electronic voting; Electronic voting systems; History; Nominations and elections; Optical character recognition software; Optical sensors; Ordinary magnetoresistance; Reflectivity; Testing; Text analysis; blind auditing; document analysis system; electronic voting; homogeneous class display; optical mark reading; paper ballot;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis Systems, 2008. DAS '08. The Eighth IAPR International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Nara
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3337-7
DOI :
10.1109/DAS.2008.75
