JP2000268115A - Voting management system and computer readable storage medium storing voting management program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify labor and time before obtaining the statistic data of the overall voting rate and voting rates for respective generations, etc., by automatically preparing the statistic data of the overall voting rate and the voting rates for the respective generations, etc., after voting. SOLUTION: At the time of printing voting admission ticket information on a postcard set to a printer device 4, sum-up object item information (the information of a voting ward code, an age code, a sex code, an individual code and C/D, etc.), is printed at the margin part of the postcard and then, it is distributed to respective voters as a voting admission ticket 6. In this case, when the respective voters enter a voting place, the voting admission tickets 6 held by the respective voters are collected, the sum-up object item information printed at the margin of the respective voting admission tickets 6 is read by an OCR device 7 and sum-up is performed by an information processor 3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a voting management system used in local governments and the like, and more particularly to a voting management system for automating post-election tallying work, statistical work, and the like, and a computer-readable computer storing a voting management program. It relates to a possible storage medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In local governments, when making an election, an election system for local governments is used to perform an extraction operation for those who have voting rights, and to obtain electoral list data,
After the voting admission ticket data is created, the electoral list data, the electoral list corresponding to the voting admission ticket data, and the voting admission ticket are output so that the election manager can confirm it.

[0003]

By the way, in the above-mentioned conventional election system, although it is possible to create and manage an electoral list and a voting admission ticket, it is necessary to carry out counting work and statistical work which must be performed after the election. Can not do. For this reason, post-election tallying and statistical work must be done manually.For example, it takes time and effort to obtain statistical data such as the overall turnout and turnover by age. Not only is it too expensive, but there is a risk that errors may occur in the overall turnout, age-specific turnout, etc. due to counting mistakes and the like.

[0004] In view of the above circumstances, the present invention can greatly simplify the labor and time required to obtain statistical data such as the overall turnout rate and the turnout rate for each age, and can reduce counting errors and the like. It is an object of the present invention to provide a voting management system capable of eliminating errors and a computer-readable storage medium storing a voting management program.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided a voting management system for managing a voting operation of a voter, wherein a voting admission ticket distributed to each voter is provided. Item information necessary for obtaining the total data is recorded in the margin, and when a voter having the voting admission ticket votes, information reading the item information recorded in the margin of the voting admission ticket possessed by the voter A reader,
And an aggregation data processing device that aggregates the item information obtained by the information reading device to calculate aggregation data related to the election.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the voting management system according to the first aspect, the information reading device is an OCR device that reads character information recorded in a margin of a voting admission ticket and outputs code data. It is characterized by:

According to the third aspect, item information necessary for obtaining total data is recorded in a blank portion of a voting admission ticket distributed to each voter, and is collected when a voter having the voting admission ticket votes. A function of causing an information reading device to read item information necessary for obtaining total data, which is recorded in a blank portion of the voting admission ticket. A voting management program having a function of processing the obtained item information to calculate aggregated data relating to the election.

[0008] According to the first aspect of the present invention, item information necessary for obtaining total data is printed in a blank portion of the voting admission ticket distributed to each voter by the printing device. When a voter who has a vote, collects the voting admission ticket possessed by this voter, reads out the item information printed in the margin by an information reading device, generates total data, and, by a total data processing device, The tallying data obtained by the information reading device is tallyed to calculate statistical data on elections. This automatically creates statistical data such as the overall turnout and turnover by age after voting, and the time and effort required to obtain statistical data such as the overall turnout and turnover by age. Is greatly simplified, and counting errors are eliminated.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, as the information reading device,
An OCR device that reads character information printed on a voting admission ticket and outputs code data is used. By using the existing reading device of each local government, the contents of the voting admission ticket brought by each voter are read, and statistics such as the overall turnout after voting and the turnout by each age are read. Automatically create data, greatly simplifying the time and effort required to obtain statistical data such as overall turnout and turnout by age, and eliminating counting errors.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the information reading device is installed in an existing computer to read the item information printed in the margin of the voting admission ticket collected when the voters vote. And summing up the item information obtained by the information reading device to calculate statistical data on the election. As a result, using the existing system of each local government, it is possible to automatically create statistical data such as the overall turnout after voting and the turnout by each age, and keep the system construction cost low. Meanwhile, the labor and time required to obtain statistical data such as the overall turnout rate and the turnout rate for each age are greatly simplified, and count errors and the like are eliminated.

[0011]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a voting management system according to the present invention.

The voting management system 1a shown in FIG. 1 processes an input / output device 2 used as a man-machine interface for an operator and various data necessary for an election based on the operation contents of the input / output device 2. An information processing device 3, a printer device 4 for printing out an electoral list 5, a voting admission ticket 6, and the like based on electoral list data, voting admission ticket data, and the like created by the information processing device 3; An OCR device that is installed in a location and the like, reads the item content printed on each voting admission ticket 6 collected when the voters vote, and supplies the total data obtained by this reading process to the information processing device 3. (Optical character reading device) 7. In this voting management system 1a, when voting admission ticket information (information such as polling place name, address name, name, list number, etc.) is printed on a postcard set in the printer device 4, voting is performed in a blank portion of the postcard. Ward code, age code, gender code, personal code,
After printing the item information to be tabulated, such as C / D, this is distributed to each voters as a voting admission ticket 6, and when each voter enters the polling place, the voting admission ticket 6 possessed by each voter is given. Collected, the OCR device 7 reads the tallying target item information printed in the margin of each voting admission ticket 6, and the information processing device 3 tallies up the information.

The OCR device 7 is installed in a voting counting place or the like. When the voting admission ticket 6 collected when the voters vote is set in the auto feeder mechanism and the start button is turned on. A plurality of voting entrance tickets 6 set in the auto feeder mechanism are taken in one by one, an image of a digit string printed on the voting entrance ticket 6 is read, and the totaling target item information obtained by this reading operation is read. Is generated to generate total data, and this is supplied to the information processing device 3.

The information processing device 3 designates one of an electoral list creation program, a voting admission ticket creation program, and a tallying program based on various commands and various data output from the input / output device 2. Activated programs are generated to generate display data necessary for processing these programs, and while supplying the display data to the input / output device 2, the printer device 4 and the OCR device 7 are controlled so that the electoral list is obtained. Creation process, voting admission ticket creation process,
Performs the specified processing out of the total data processing.

Next, the operation of the voting management system 1a will be described with reference to the block diagram shown in FIG.

First, when the power of the information processing apparatus 3 is turned on, display data is created by the information processing apparatus 3 and the electoral list creation processing, the voting admission ticket creation processing, A selection screen is displayed for asking which process to start, such as total data processing.

When the electoral list creation processing is selected on the operation selection screen by the operator, as shown in FIG. 2, an electoral list creation program is started by the information processing device 3, and the electoral list creation program registered in advance is selected. The contents of the information master 8 are searched and the data of the voters are extracted, and the data of each of the extracted voters is arranged, and the items necessary for the election, such as the polling place name, address name, name, list number, etc. Electoral list data with items is created. The electoral list data is supplied to the printer 4, and each sheet (for example, A4
Electoral list 5 which is sequentially printed on size paper 9)
Is created.

Similarly, when the voting admission ticket creation processing is selected by the operator on the operation selection screen, as shown in FIG. 3, the voting admission ticket creation program is started by the information processing device 3 and registered in advance. The contents of the election information master 8 are searched, the data of the voters are extracted, and the extracted data of each voter is arranged, and items necessary for the election, such as polling place name, address name, name, list In addition to items such as numbers, voting admission ticket data having items necessary for performing the tallying process, such as voting ward codes, age codes, gender codes, personal codes, and C / D are created. The voting admission ticket data is supplied to the printer device 4, and the postcards set in the printer device 4 are sequentially selected, and the name of the polling place,
Character strings indicating items such as address names, names, and directory numbers are printed, and the voting area code,
Numeric string indicating items such as an age code, a gender code, a personal code, and C / D, for example, “00013110000000”
Voting admission ticket 6 with a number string 10 such as 197 "
Is created and distributed to each voters.

When the operator selects the aggregation data processing from the operation selection screen, the information processing device 3
As a result, the tallying program 12 is started, and it is checked whether or not the tally data is output from the OCR device 7. When the tally data is not output from the OCR device 7, the tallying waits for the tally data.

In this state, when a voter who has received the voting admission ticket 6 goes to a polling place and performs voting, the election manager collects the voting admission ticket 6 and carries it to a voting counting place or the like. The voting area code, age code, gender code, personal code, which is set on the OCR device 7 installed at this voting counter and printed on this voting admission ticket 6
The image of the numeral string 10 indicating items such as C / D is read, and at the same time, the voting area code, the age code, the gender code, the personal code, the C / D, etc. are reproduced, and these are supplied to the information processing device 3 as total data. Is done.

The tallying program 12 of the information processing device 3 fetches the tallying data output from the OCR device 7, and organizes the tallying data for each voters and registers it in the election information master 8. In each voter data, the presence / absence of a vote is written in a postscript format.

Further, the tallying data is tallyed and statistically processed by the tallying program 12 of the information processing apparatus 3, and the turnout rate and the like are calculated for each section such as voting section, age, and gender. The results of these tabulations and the results of the statistical processing are supplied to the printer 4, and from the printer 4, a turnout totalization table for each voting section, a gender turnout table for each age, a gender turnout table for each age, etc. The voting rate summary table 13 is printed out.

As described above, in this embodiment, when voting admission ticket information (information such as polling place name, address name, name, and list number) is printed on the postcard set in the printer device 4, the postcard is printed. After printing the target item information (voting area code, age code, gender code, personal code, C / D, etc.) in the margin, this is distributed as a voting admission ticket 6 to each voters. When each voter enters the polling place, the voting admission ticket 6 possessed by each of these voters is collected, and the OCR device 7 reads the totaling target item information printed on the margin of each voting admission ticket 6, The information processing device 3 is made to count. For this reason, not only can the electoral list 5 and the voting admission ticket 6 be created, but also statistical data such as the overall voting rate after voting and the voting rate by age can be automatically created. As a result, it is possible to greatly simplify the labor and time required to obtain statistical data such as the overall turnout rate and the turnout rate for each age, and to eliminate counting errors and the like (claim 1). Effect).

In this embodiment, the voting admission ticket 6
As a reading device that reads the item contents printed on
Since the ordinary OCR device 7 for reading the contents of documents held by a general local government is used, each voters can bring in the contents only by changing the contents of the program installed in the information processing device 3. By reading the contents of the voting admission ticket 6, statistical data such as the overall voting rate after voting and the voting rate for each age can be automatically created (the effect of claim 2).

<Other Embodiment> FIG. 4 shows a voting management system according to a third embodiment of the present invention, which is a voting management system and a computer-readable storage medium storing a voting management program according to the present invention. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of the above. In this figure, the same parts as those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

The voting management system 1b shown in FIG. 1 includes various programs necessary for conducting an election, for example, an information processing program such as an electoral list creating program, a voting admission ticket creating program, a tallying program 12, and an election information master 8. A program to be created, a program to store total data, and the like are created and recorded in the storage medium 14. An information processing program such as an electoral list creation program, a voting admission ticket creation program, a tallying program 12, and the like, which are recorded by setting the storage medium 14 in a computer device already installed in the local government, and election information A program for creating the master 8, a program for storing total data, and the like are installed in the computer device. The input / output device, the computer device, the printer device, and the OCR device already installed on the local government side are made to function as the input / output device 2, the information processing device 3, the printer device 4, and the OCR device 7, respectively. It is.

With this configuration, the above-described voting management processing can be performed using existing equipment such as an input / output device, a computer device, a printer device, and an OCR device without imposing new equipment burden on the local government. In addition, statistical data such as the overall turnout after voting and the turnout for each age can be automatically created. This greatly reduces the time and effort required to obtain statistical data such as the overall turnout rate and turnout rate for each age while keeping the system construction cost low. It can be eliminated (the effect of claim 3).

As described above, in each of the above-described embodiments, a character string such as "0001311000000197", which indicates items such as a voting district code, an age code, a gender code, a personal code, and a C / D, is provided in a blank portion of a postcard. Write the number string 10 to create a voting admission ticket 6 and use it for OCR
The apparatus 7 reads the data to obtain the aggregated data. In other recording forms, for example, a barcode format, a magnetic stripe format, etc., a voting area code, an age code, a gender code, a personal code, a C / D, etc. Is written on the voting admission ticket 6, or the written contents are affixed, and the item contents recorded on the voting admission ticket 6 are read and counted using a barcode reader, a magnetic information reader, or the like. Data may be generated.

In this manner, similarly to the above-described embodiments, not only can the electoral list 5 and the voting admission ticket 6 be prepared, but also the overall voting rate after voting, Statistical data such as age-specific turnout can be automatically created, thereby greatly simplifying the time and effort required to obtain the overall turnout, statistical data such as each age-related turnout. As well as eliminate counting errors and the like.

[0030]

As described above, according to the present invention, according to the first aspect, statistical data such as the overall voting rate after voting and the voting rate by each age can be automatically created. As a result, it is possible to greatly simplify the time and effort required to obtain statistical data such as the overall turnout rate and the turnout rate for each age, and eliminate counting errors.

In the voting management system according to the second aspect, the contents of the voting admission ticket brought by each voters are read using the existing reading device possessed by each local government, and the overall voting rate after voting is read. Automatically generate statistical data such as turnouts by age, which greatly simplifies the time and effort required to obtain overall turnouts and statistical data such as turnouts by age. Can be performed, and counting errors and the like can be eliminated.

In the storage medium according to the third aspect, statistical data such as the overall turnout after voting and the turnover by each age are automatically created using the existing system of each local government. This can greatly simplify the time and effort required to obtain statistical data such as overall turnout, turnout by age, etc., while keeping the cost of building the system low, Counting errors can be eliminated.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a voting management system according to claims 1 and 2 among embodiments of a voting management system and a storage medium according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing an example of an electoral list creation operation of the voting management system shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a voting admission ticket creation operation and a tallying operation of the voting management system shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of a voting management system according to claim 3 of the embodiments of the voting management system and the storage medium according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1a, 1b: voting management system 2: input / output device 3: information processing device (total data processing device) 4: printer device (printing device) 5: electoral list 6: voting admission ticket 7: OCR device (information reading device) 8 Election information master 9 ... Paper 10 ... Numerical string 12 ... Tallying program 13 ... Turning rate tally table 14 ... Storage medium

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A voting management system for managing a voting operation of a voter, wherein item information necessary for obtaining total data is recorded in a blank portion of a voting admission ticket distributed to each voters, and the voting admission ticket is provided. When a voter having a vote casts a vote, an information reading device that reads item information recorded in the margin of the voting admission ticket held by the voter, and collects and processes the item information obtained by the information reading device. A voting management system, comprising: a tallied data processing device that calculates tallied data related to the voting data. 2. The voting management system according to claim 1, wherein the information reading device is an OCR device that reads character information recorded in a margin of a voting admission ticket and outputs code data. Characterized voting management system. 3. Item information necessary for obtaining total data is recorded in a blank portion of a voting admission ticket distributed to each voter, and the voting collected when the voter holding the voting admission ticket performs voting. A medium storing a program for processing an admission ticket, a function of causing an information reading device to read item information necessary for obtaining total data, which is recorded in a blank portion of the voting admission ticket, and A computer-readable storage medium storing a voting management program having a function of processing item information to calculate total data on elections.