JP2003067538A - Electronic voting system and computer program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic voting system and a computing system allowing the aged and the vision impaired to vote electronically by reading information from the same information device as those used by the unimpaired. SOLUTION: The electronic voting system made barrier-free and the computer program provide a screen display with the size and layout of characters matching physical handicap characteristics as the program reads the physical handicap characteristics from a card inserted into a voting device during voting, thus allowing the aged and the vision impaired to vote electronically using the same voting device as those used by the unimpaired.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention replaces a conventional voting method in which a candidate's name or symbol is entered on a ballot sheet in domestic and overseas public office elections, and instead of a conventional voting method, a computer is used for voting and voting. Regarding voting systems and computer programs. In particular, the present invention relates to an electronic voting system and a computer program having a computer for controlling the contents displayed on a display device of a computer in order to convey the contents of election and the contents of votes to voters at the time of voting.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the progress of information technology (IT) in recent years, various electronic voting systems capable of paperless voting and counting of votes using an electronic computer have been proposed (Patent No. 27
47171, Patent No. 266 for mark sheet method
9371).

Voting in the electronic voting system is performed by a voter selecting a candidate to vote from among a plurality of candidates displayed on a computer display. In particular, according to the electronic voting system in which the applicant of the present invention has applied for a patent, it is possible for the voters to arbitrarily select a selecting means when selecting a candidate with a terminal computer at a polling place (Japanese Patent Application 2000). -397199, Japanese Patent Application 20
01-23227, Japanese Patent Application 2001-33402, Japanese Patent Application 2
001-47996). The selection means includes a touch panel, various keyboards, switches, and sensors, and any one of these can be arbitrarily selected and used for voting. Therefore, as long as there is a will to vote, all voters, regardless of healthy people, persons with disabilities, and the elderly, can vote by themselves.

On the other hand, the voting in the electronic voting system is
By transferring the voting data recorded in each memory in the plurality of terminal computers used for voting, via a network or a portable storage medium and accumulating it in the memory of one computer, and performing a numerical operation Aggregation is done. Not only can you count the votes in a much shorter time compared to the conventional manual counting, but also the extremely accurate counting that does not cause invalid votes or questionable votes that were caused by writing errors in the conventional handwritten voting. The result can be obtained.

In such an electronic voting system, before the election, the character information and the image information of the election and the candidate are converted into electronic data and stored in the memory.
Then from this data, voting software must be created that displays the candidate information on a computer display.

As a technique for creating such voting software, Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 8-44919 discloses an automatic screen layout when an administrator inputs variable elements such as candidate information that change for each election. An apparatus and method for making and creating voting software is disclosed. According to this conventional technique, it is possible to easily obtain desired voting software suitable for each election simply by inputting variable elements by utilizing the candidacy notification without newly creating voting software suitable for each election. Can be created.

[0007]

However, according to the above-mentioned conventional technology, all electors who vote are configured to use the same election screen. Cannot be selected or changed.

[0008] Therefore, large characters are confined to a narrow field of view such as a person who is inferior to the average visual acuity of the voters, an elderly person with presbyopia who cannot see small characters, or conversely, a visually impaired person with visual field constriction. There is a risk that voters who are hard to see could not use the voting software to vote on the same voting screen as people without disabilities.

Therefore, the conventional electronic voting program has a problem that the voting screen displayed by the program is uniform and is not a barrier-free or universal design for persons with physical disabilities and the elderly.

The present invention has been made in view of the above situation, and in particular, it is an electronic voting system for electronically accepting votes, in which a vote accepting means and information necessary for voting are displayed on a display screen. A display means for displaying, a portable recording medium which is provided for each elector who votes, and records the physical characteristic information of the elector, and at the time of voting, read from the portable recording medium of the elector who votes. The electronic voting system is characterized by including a control means for changing the character size and / or the display position of the display screen according to the physical characteristic information. It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic voting system and a computer program capable of displaying a voting screen corresponding to voters of the.

[0011]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides an electronic voting system and a computer program having the following configurations (1) to (4).

(1) An electronic voting system for electronically accepting votes, which comprises voting acceptance means (touch panel LC).
D) 3b, display means 3b for displaying information necessary for voting on the display screen, and a portable recording medium provided for each elector who votes and recording the physical characteristic information of the elector. (Information card) 3a and a control means for changing the character size and / or the display position of the display screen according to the physical characteristic information read from the portable recording medium 3a of the elector who casts the vote when voting. An electronic voting system characterized by having and.

(2) A computer program executed by a computer to perform a barrier-free electronic vote, the step of recognizing an information card owned by an elector who votes, and recorded on the information card. Reading the electoral characteristics, creating a voting screen in accordance with the electoral characteristics, controlling the voting screen according to the voting operation of the elector, and recording voting data by the voting operation A computer program having steps.

(3) The electoral characteristic in the information card includes a physical disability characteristic of the elector and does not include information for identifying the elector. Computer program.

(4) The electoral characteristics include at least one of an elderly person with presbyopia, a visually impaired person who is not severe, a deaf person, a physically handicapped person, and a non-disabled person. The computer program according to claim 2 or 3.

[0016]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An electronic voting system, which is a preferred embodiment according to an embodiment of the present invention, will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing steps of a voting method in an electronic voting system which is an example according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a physical disability characteristic in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an electronic voting terminal included in the electronic voting system.
Diagram of the information card in the electronic voting system of
1 is a file structure diagram of a database in the electronic voting system in FIG. 1, FIG. 6 is a candidate database in the electronic voting system in FIG. 1, FIG. 7 is an input window to the candidate database in the electronic voting system in FIG. 1, and FIG. 1 is an input window to the candidate affiliation database in the electronic voting system, FIG. 9 is an input window to the candidate affiliation database in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, and FIG.
Polling place database in the electronic voting system in Japan, Fig. 1
1 is a fixed screen element database in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, FIG. 12 is a variable screen element database in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, FIG. 13 is an input window to the variable screen element database in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1 is another input window to the variable screen element database in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, FIG. 15 is a confirmation window of the candidate selection screen by inputting the variable screen element database in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, FIG.
6 is a confirmation window of a candidate confirmation screen by inputting a variable screen element database in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1,
17 is a display message database in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, FIG. 18 is a configuration diagram of the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, and FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a software configuration inside an electronic voting terminal device included in the electronic voting system of FIG. 20 is a diagram showing a data flow to an electronic voting terminal device included in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, and FIG. 21 is a candidate for a single-entry candidate election (single page) used by a non-disabled person in the electronic voting system of FIG. FIG. 22 is a view showing a candidate selection screen of a single-entry candidate election (single page) used by a low vision person in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, and FIG. 23 is a view showing an electronic voting system of FIG. FIG. 24 is a diagram showing a candidate selection screen of a single-entry candidate election (single page) used by a visually impaired person with a narrowed visual field. FIG. 24 is used by a non-disabled person in the electronic voting system of FIG. FIG. 25 is a diagram showing a candidate selection screen for a single-entry candidate election (plural pages), and FIG. 25 is displayed for an administrator and a caretaker at the time of voting by an elector who votes without using the voting screen in the electronic voting system of FIG. FIG. 26 is a diagram showing a candidate confirmation screen of a single-entry candidate election used by non-disabled persons in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, and FIG. 27 is a diagram showing non-disabled persons in the electronic voting system of FIG. FIG. 28 is a view showing a political party selection screen of the restricted list proportional proportional election (single page) used. FIG. 28 is a political party selection screen of the restricted list proportional proportional election (multiple pages) used by non-disabled people in the electronic voting system of FIG. FIG. 29 is a diagram showing a political party confirmation screen of a restricted list proportional proportional election used by non-disabled people in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, and FIG. 30 is used by non-disabled people in the electronic voting system of FIG. 32 shows a judge selection screen of the Supreme Court judge national examination, FIG. 31 shows a dismissal judge confirmation screen of Supreme Court judge national examination used by non-disabled persons in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, FIG. Is a diagram showing a selection screen (single page) for referendum used by non-disabled people in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1,
FIG. 33 is a view showing a referendum selection screen (a plurality of pages) used by a non-disabled person in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1, and FIG. 34 is a confirmation screen of referendum used by a non-disabled person in the electronic voting system of FIG. FIG. 35 is a flowchart of voting in the electronic voting system of FIG.

FIG. 1 is a flow chart showing steps of a voting method using an electronic voting program having a barrier-free function in this embodiment.

Immediately after the "start" of the flow, "candidate acceptance" is performed (step S20). This is because the candidates for the election report to the Election Commission,
It is the act of the staff of the Election Commission accepting the contents. After this reception, the Election Management Committee will inform the
"Data input", which is a data digitization work, is performed on a terminal computer installed in the election management committee (step S20). This data input operation is input in text format, that is, ordinary characters and numerical values on the candidate registration screen shown in FIG. 7 and the political party registration screen shown in FIG. "Database registration" is performed in the format as shown in FIG. 8 (step S2).
2).

The registration in the database is repeated until the number of candidates who stand for candidates matches the number of candidates entered in the database (step S23).

At this time, the main information such as the candidate name and political party is input. It is not necessary to particularly input the decoration information related to the screen decoration such as the screen layout and the size of the displayed characters. The decoration information is
It is registered in advance on another database as shown in FIG. The database in which the main information is registered and the database in which the decoration information is registered are related to each other, and one line (record) of the database is
It is designed to form one screen element. Individual records are referenced by the electronic voting program that creates the candidate screen and voting screen using the appropriate calling language and displayed with the appropriate layout.

Now, the flow after the "start of voting" (step S24) in the flowchart of FIG. 1 will be described. On the day of the election, at the polling place, "identity confirmation" is performed based on the polling place admission ticket mailed to the voters prior to voting (step S25). After confirmation, "issue information card" corresponding to the physical disability characteristic ID described in the polling place admission ticket based on the basic resident register of the local government (step S2
7) Do.

The physical disability characteristics include non-disabled persons (normal persons), visually impaired persons, hearing impaired persons, and audio-visually impaired persons, as shown in the column of "Disability characteristic" in the second column in the table of FIG. For example, people with physical disabilities. Furthermore, among visually impaired persons, the input device to be used differs depending on the degree of disability. For example, a visually impaired person can vote using a flat panel display means such as a touch panel, but a blind person must use a keyboard provided with a stereoscopic display means capable of tactile recognition and voice guidance in combination. Therefore, with respect to the display means and the input device used at the time of voting, all voters are provided with a "physical disability characteristic ID" which is an identification number for distinguishing the disability characteristic. This is illustrated as a two-digit numerical value in the “Physical disability characteristic ID” column of the first column in FIG. This physical disability characteristic ID is read by the electronic voting program by an appropriate method. There are various means for reading, but in the present invention, an information card is used.

The information card is, for example, I shown in FIG.
It is a C card. The physical disability characteristic ID is recorded on the information card, each voter is issued a ticket, and the IC card is inserted at the time of voting to read the information on the IC. The card is inserted into the electronic voting terminal device as shown in FIG. Here, returning to the flowchart of FIG. 1, the voters themselves "insert the information card" (step S2).
8), the electronic voting program refers to the ID number read by the "information card reading" means (step S29) (steps S31, S34, S37, S40), and ID
Is displayed on the screen (steps S32 and S3).
5, S38, S41).

In the conditional branch of "Is the disability characteristic read?" In FIG. 1, for example, the disability characteristic I
If the electronic balloting program refers to the fact that D is 01, the “record (row) for the visually impaired is referred to” in the database. The database is shown in FIGS.
It is stored as a table like. For example, all records (rows) in which the physical disability characteristic ID in the first column in the table in FIG. 12 is 01 are extracted, and a screen having the records as screen elements is displayed. That is, returning to FIG. 1, the “display of the record for the visually impaired” is performed and the “screen display for the visually impaired” is performed. In this way, the selection of the screen display can be performed by the act of the voter inputting the disability characteristic ID to the electronic voting program by some method. Thus, the "step of reading the physical disability characteristics" and the "step of selecting a screen display according to the physical disability characteristics" in claim 2 are performed.

In FIG. 1, when a screen suitable for the visually impaired is displayed, "voting by the input means for the visually impaired"
Go to step. For example, in the case of a visually impaired person, FIG.
A vote is made on the touch panel using a screen like this. On the other hand, in the case of voters who are blind, in order to keep the voting secret against the caregiver, the flat display device is shown in FIG.
Only the voting progress screen is displayed, and the voice guidance or the tactile display is used. Then, the input is performed by using an embossed keyboard that allows tactile recognition of the keys. Regarding these display means and input means, the applicant has already applied for a patent,
Not shown here. The above is the description of the flowchart in FIG. 1.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a physical disorder characteristic according to the present invention. The disability characteristics are shown in the second column in FIG. Disability characteristics include, for example, non-disability,
Visual impairment, hearing impairment, physical impairment, intellectual disability, and any combination thereof. Then, for the same physical disability characteristic, the input device to be used is different, as shown in the column of the fourth column of FIG. 2, depending on the lightness of the disability grade. A physical disability characteristic ID is assigned to this input device.
This is illustrated in the first column of FIG.

3 and 4 are examples of the information card and the electronic voting terminal according to the present invention. The information card according to claim 4 can store a lot of information by using an IC card, for example. In FIG. 4, in addition to the physical disability characteristic ID, the card issue date, language classification, election type, polling place, voting type, and card usage state are recorded. It should be noted that no personal information that can identify the elector is recorded in this. This is constitution 1
This is to protect the secret of the voting stipulated in Article 5. This card is inserted into the information card insertion part 3g in the electronic voting terminal of FIG. 3 by the voters themselves. This voting terminal is an LCD (liquid crystal display) which is an example of a flat display means.
3b and a speaker 3f which is a voice display means, and a touch panel 3b is used as an input means.
Further, the printer 3e for recording the contents of voting is provided.
The three-dimensional display means for tactile recognition can be implemented by externally connecting a tactile pin display to this electronic voting terminal. The present applicant has already applied for a patent for this stereoscopic display means, and is not shown here.

FIG. 5 is a file structure diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 5, six relational databases surrounded by ellipses (abbreviated as DB in the figure) are
It is entered in text format. For example, polling place DB
As shown in FIG. 6, is configured as a table of items such as a candidate ID, a candidacy notification name, and an affiliated organization ID. Apart from these text files, there are binary files such as image files enclosed by rectangles and audio files enclosed by rounded rectangles. These refer to the relative position (path) of the file in the six databases. As a method of referring to a file, an audio or image file existing in a directory designated in advance can be referred to by, for example, designating a file name in a function identification ID field in FIG. The file management by the directory uses the function of the OS which is the basic software.

6 to 17 show another embodiment of the present invention. The database is a candidate database (Fig. 6), a candidate organization database (Fig. 7), a polling place database (Fig. 8), a fixed screen element layout database (Fig. 9), a variable screen element layout database (Fig. 10).
And a display message database (FIG. 17), which are a total of six partial databases, and are related relational databases. For example, the belonging organization ID field in FIG. 8 serves as a so-called primary key and is associated with the belonging organization ID field in FIG.

These partial databases are tables, as shown, where the rows or records correspond to screen elements and the columns or fields define the attributes of the screen elements. For example, the screen element on which the candidate displays the second record “Shinsaku Takasugi” in FIG. 6 is determined as follows. That is, the “choshu party” of the candidate affiliated organization ID field 0002 in FIG. 8 associated with the value 00002 of the affiliated organization ID field in FIG. 6 is the affiliated organization, and these are the polling stations defined in FIG.
1. The electronic voting program refers to each record of the layout defined in FIG. 1 and the message defined in FIG. The layout input window is shown in Figure 13.
This is shown in FIGS. 14, 15 and 16. At the time of voting, these are displayed as shown in FIG.

As another embodiment, the fixed screen element layout database of FIG. 11 which defines the layout of the common screen, and FIG. 12 which changes depending on the number of candidates, etc.
The variable screen element layout database of is provided with the physical disability characteristic ID in the first field.

In FIG. 19, the variable screen element layout database is provided with a screen ID field for defining a basic layout consisting of a small number of screens, rather than creating a completely different screen depending on the type of election and the form of voting. There is. Variations based on this common basic layout are realized in fields that define color, size, coordinates, alignment information, and the like. As a basic layout, single page candidate selection screen, candidate confirmation screen, white vote confirmation screen, candidate selection method confirmation screen, candidate number input screen, candidate selection page guidance screen, abstention confirmation screen, multiple page candidates Eight layouts of the selection screen are sufficient. For example, FIG. 21 showing a candidate selection screen in the single-entry candidate election and FIG. 27 showing a political party selection screen in the restraint list proportional representation election are created using the same screen ID 01. In this way, the commonization of the eight fixed screens makes it extremely easy to create the candidate screen.

FIG. 18 is an explanatory diagram of another embodiment according to the present invention. The candidate management terminal 1 accepts and registers candidates for election at the Election Management Committee,
The candidate data 12 such as name, kana, and history is stored as text format data in a storage device such as a hard disk or a memory. Then, such information is recorded as audio data in an appropriate compression format so that it can be transmitted to the visually impaired by voice. Furthermore, the facial photograph of the candidate is recorded as an image in an appropriate compression format such as JPEG.

The election management terminal 2 inputs and stores the election data 11 relating to the definition of the election to be executed at the election management committee. It has a function of issuing each polling place data and an authentication key, and distributes these to other computers via a portable storage medium such as a memory card.
As a distribution destination, a voting ticket issuing terminal 5 connected by a broken line
Alternatively, there are electronic voting terminals 6 that are not connected by broken lines, and voting data collection / analysis terminals 8 that are not connected by broken lines.

The candidate server 3 includes a candidate management terminal 1, an election management terminal 2 and a message queue (Message Queu).
e) Communicate as a server, and make sure that the candidate data 10 and the election data 11 are queued once for reliable communication, and they are related to each other (relational type).
Manage as a database. Furthermore, the candidate server 3
Is the voter screen creation terminal 4 and the ODBC (Open Database
Connectivity) interface, and provides a candidate database referenced by the voting program created by the voter screen creation terminal 4.

The candidate screen creation terminal 4 is used by the candidate server 3
The data in the candidate database in is SQL (Structur
The voting program 10 refers to a calling language such as ed Query Language) and creates a candidate screen for each type of disability of the elector, that is, the electronic voting program according to claim 2.

The voting ticket issuing terminal 5 issues a voting ticket 9 according to the electoral characteristics of the voting numbered ticket distributed in advance to the elector based on the Basic Resident Register. For example, for an elector who has a description of a visually impaired person in the electoral characteristics column of the voting numbered ticket, when this elector inserts the voting ticket 9 into the electronic voting terminal 6, a voting screen for the visually impaired person. Is displayed. The form of the voting ticket 9 is, for example, an information storage medium such as an IC card, in which the electoral characteristics, the implementation election, and the usage history information are recorded, and recorded by the ticket issuing device 5a connected to the ticket issuing terminal 5 via RS-232. ,publish.

The electronic voting terminal 6 is installed at the polling place.
As shown in FIG. 20, after being installed in the polling place, the election data 1 present in the candidate server 3 by the hand of the election manager.
1, the candidate data 12 and the voting program 10 are transferred to the electronic voting terminal 6. As the transfer means, a physical transport means such as a portable recording medium such as a memory card is used.
Desirable from a cost and security perspective. Of course, the candidate server 3 and the electronic voting terminal 6 may be network-connected and configured to download. When the data transfer is completed, the electronic voting terminal 6 becomes ready for the voting operation by the polling place data and the authentication key distributed from the election management terminal 2 by the portable recording medium. Then, all voting data for which all voting has been completed is stored in the portable recording medium and the journal printer and sent to the voting place. In this way, by placing data and programs related to elections in the voting terminal only during the voting operation, it is possible to prevent a suspicious person from operating the voting terminal and falsifying the voting program or election data. .

The voting data collecting terminal 7 is one embodiment of the data collecting means in the present invention, and temporarily collects each voting data and voting data at a plurality of polling stations, and stores both in association with each other in a storage device. As the collecting means, a physical conveying means using a portable recording medium is used. Of course, this carrier can also be configured to use a wired or wireless network.

The voting data collection terminal 8 is an embodiment of the data collection means in the present invention, and the voting data and polling place information collected by the voting data collection terminal 7 are used by using the message queue server function. Communicate and perform data aggregation and analysis.

FIG. 19 is a block diagram of software that operates in the electronic voting device 6 and is related to the electronic voting program of the present invention. Operating system (OS)
13 is, for example, an OS manufactured by Microsoft Corporation in the United States,
Windows (registered trademark) NT Embedded (Wind
ows® NT Embedded) can be used. This OS is a built-in O specialized for device control.
S, and can operate even in the absence of an external input device such as a mouse or keyboard.

The serial I / O 14 continuously controls input or output bit by bit when inputting or outputting data.

The window system 15 manages a display portion delimited by a frame or the like in the screen displayed on the display or the like.

The file system 16 performs file maintenance such as file registration, addition, correction, and deletion, and file protection that restricts access to specific files.

The voting ticket control program 17 controls reading and writing of the IC card inserted in the ticket issuing machine.

The touch panel control program 18 controls input and output from the touch panel arranged on the display.

The printer control program 19 controls writing of voting data on printer paper.

Junction box control program 2
0 controls various external selection devices connected to the voting terminal.

The voting program 10 is composed of the following five partial programs. That is, the voting ticket reading unit 2
1, an election data reading unit 22, a voting screen creating unit 23, a voting data recording unit 24, and a voting control unit 25. When using Windows, which is the OS in this embodiment, the voting program 10 is Visual Basic, which is a simple programming language that depends on this OS.
ic) is convenient to create. As the database management software, it is possible to use Access, which is the company's database management software. Use this software to enter textual data that varies from election to election, that is, data that requires frequent updates.

The voting ticket reading unit 21 mechanically controls insertion / ejection of a voting ticket provided in the form of a magnetic card or an IC card into / from the reader device.

The election data reading unit 22 controls electronic reading of information such as election type and elector type recorded in the voting ticket memory.

The voting screen creation unit 23 controls the creation of the screen displayed on the display when the voters vote.
Candidate information or layout information necessary for screen creation is read from a database described in advance.

The voting control unit 25 controls the switching of voting screens when an elector performs a voting operation.

The voting data recording unit 13 controls electronically recording the voting results of the elector on a recording medium.

FIG. 21 is an example of a voting screen used by a non-disabled person whose electoral characteristic value is 0. This shows the candidate selection screen for the single-entry candidate election. On the other hand, when a low vision person with an electoral characteristic value of 1 votes, a capital letter is displayed as shown in FIG. 22 based on the information of the voting ticket. On the other hand, although this is not shown in FIG. 2, in the case of an elector with a visual field stenosis among low vision persons, the information near the center of the screen can be recognized well, but the information at the edge of the screen is difficult to see. There may be. In such a case, as shown in FIG. 22, information may be collected and displayed near the center of the screen, and the information that does not fit may be set as another page.

(Execution Example of Voting) Now, an execution example of an actual voting will be described below with reference to FIG. 35. Before that, an outline of a voting execution method will be described. Let us consider a case where the electoral disability characteristic is the physically disabled person, who is unable to get up. In this case, the patrol vote is performed in the bedroom of the home or the hospital, or the vote is performed while lying down at the polling place using a stretcher or the like. Electors, Figure 3
Instead of using the LCD 3b in the electronic voting terminal, the head mounted display (HM) connected to the terminal device based on the voice guidance from the speaker (SP) 3f.
D) Wear yourself or have a caregiver wear it, and select and confirm candidates to vote for one or more elections using the switch of the voting terminal and the external selection device, and make it a device of the voting terminal. Record and complete the vote.

In the case of the single-entry candidate election, the actual voting operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

At the start of the voting operation, the voting standby screen (not shown) is displayed on the screen of the display (step S1 in FIG. 35).

Next, the elector or the caregiver inserts the information card into the voting terminal shown in FIG. The information card is a magnetic card or an IC card issued by the election manager prior to the voting, and as the built-in data, the type of election and the type of voting terminal (for the blind, the physically handicapped, the physically handicapped, etc. ) Is recorded. IC to protect the anonymity of the election
The card does not contain any information to identify the elector.

Read the data from the inserted card,
It is confirmed that the electoral characteristic value in FIG. 2 is a head mounted display user (step S2). If voters want another input method, they will reissue the information card. In that case, the process returns to the previous voting standby screen step S1.

When the identity verification is completed, the voting progress screen (FIG. 25) is displayed on the electronic voting terminal. A normal voting screen is displayed on the head mounted display. First, when the language selection is completed (step S3, step S4), the election selection screen setting is displayed (step S5). If both A "list selection" and B "number input" are allowed, the screen of FIG. 10 is displayed, and the respective buttons illuminate cyclically at fixed time intervals. This is a so-called scan input soft key selection method.

The elector pushes the switch immediately after the A "list selection" button is lit (step S6). The selected list selection method is determined and a candidate selection screen as shown in FIG. 21 is displayed (step S7). Where B "previous page"
The button is disabled. At this time, if all candidates are within this screen, B "Previous page" button,
C "Next page" button and F "Page / Inside page" button are not displayed. The respective candidate buttons A and the buttons B to E are sequentially and cyclically lit at fixed time intervals.

The elector waits until the candidate who wants to vote is displayed on A (step S9). At this time, the candidate name of A and the page number of F are updated (step S10). That is, on the screen of FIG. 21, candidate names are scroll-displayed.

Here, when the first page is displayed B "Previous page"
Is invalidated, otherwise D "return" is invalidated. When the last page is reached, C "next page" is invalidated. In addition, the display of candidate buttons that are not displayed,
Delete the candidate button without the candidate name. Pressed B or C (Next button if not displayed)
Lights up.

When the name of the candidate who wants to vote for A is displayed, the elector pushes the confirmation switch when the button for the name of the candidate lights up (step S8). Then, the screen of the selected candidate as shown in FIG. 26 is displayed (step S12). If a white vote is selected (step S11), a white vote confirmation screen is displayed (step S13). In order to vote for the displayed candidate, the elector 1a waits for the timing when the "vote" button lights up and then presses the switch immediately after lighting up (step S1).
4). The entered candidate is printed on the journal printer and recorded on the recording device (step S15),
It is transmitted via the network (step S16).

When the confirmation of the correct vote is completed, a guide voice "Please remove the card" is played from the speaker (step S17). This voice is repeated until the elector or attendant removes the information card from the terminal (step S18). When the elector or attendant removes the information card, the guide voice stops and the voting terminal 6 returns to the display of the first standby screen (step S1).
9). This completes the voting for the single-entry candidate election.

Although omitted in the embodiment of voting, FIG.
28 and FIG. 28 are political party selection screens showing the contents of the video guidance of the restricted list proportional representation election, and FIG. 29 is a party confirmation screen showing the contents of the video guidance of the restricted list proportional representation election. Further, FIG. 30 is a judge selection screen for Supreme Court judge national examination, and FIG. 31 is a dismissal judge confirmation screen for Supreme Court judge national examination. 32 is a diagram showing a referendum selection screen (single page), FIG. 33 is a diagram showing a referendum selection screen (plural pages), and FIG. 34 is a diagram showing a referendum confirmation screen. is there. These are similar to the procedure for voting in the single-entry candidate election described in the voting execution example, in which electronic voting is performed using the voting terminal or the like of the present embodiment.

The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment, and various modifications can be carried out without departing from the scope of the invention.

The present invention exhibits the following effects. That is, the present invention is a computer program in an electronic voting system having a voting means having a barrier-free function, wherein the program reads the physical disability characteristics from a card inserted into a voting device at the time of voting and determines the physical disability characteristics according to the physical disability characteristics. By configuring the screen display to have a different character size and layout, it becomes possible to create a voting screen, which was standard in the prior art, according to the elector. Elderly people and people with physical disabilities can now vote electronically with the same voting device as healthy people, and the electronic voting system can be universally designed. This promotes barrier-free electronic voting and allows voters, who used to have difficulty visually recognizing characters on terminal screens such as ATMs, to select their own character size and screen layout. It is possible to provide an electronic voting system and an electronic voting program that can execute voting easily and that is fair and has excellent operability and reliability.

[0070]

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention is provided for voting acceptance means, display means for displaying information necessary for voting on a display screen, and each elector who casts a vote. A portable recording medium on which information is recorded and, at the time of voting, the character size of the display screen and / or the character size of the display screen according to the physical characteristic information read from the portable recording medium of the elector who votes.
Alternatively, by providing an electronic voting system characterized by including a control means for changing the display position, an electronic voting system capable of displaying a voting screen corresponding to all voters regardless of the physical disability, A computer program can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing steps of a voting method in an electronic voting system that is an example according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a physical disability characteristic in the electronic voting system of FIG.

3 is a configuration diagram of an electronic voting terminal included in the electronic voting system of FIG.

4 is a configuration diagram of an information card in the electronic voting system in FIG.

5 is a file structure diagram of a database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a candidate database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

FIG. 7 is an input window for a candidate database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

8 is a candidate affiliation organization database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

FIG. 9 is an input window to a candidate affiliation group database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

10 is a polling place database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

11 is a fixed screen element database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

FIG. 12 is a variable screen element database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

FIG. 13 is an input window for a variable screen element database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

FIG. 14 is another input window to the variable screen element database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

FIG. 15 is a confirmation window of a candidate selection screen by inputting a variable screen element database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

16 is a confirmation window of a candidate confirmation screen by inputting a variable screen element database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

FIG. 17 is a display message database in the electronic voting system of FIG.

FIG. 18 is a configuration diagram of the electronic voting system of FIG. 1.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a software configuration inside an electronic voting terminal device included in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1.

20 is a diagram showing a data flow to an electronic voting terminal device included in the electronic voting system of FIG.

21 is a diagram showing a candidate selection screen for a single-entry candidate election (single page) used by a non-disabled person in the electronic voting system of FIG.

22 is a diagram showing a candidate selection screen for a single-entry candidate election (single page) used by a low vision person in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1. FIG.

23. Single-entry candidate election (single-page) used by a visually impaired person with a narrowed visual field in the electronic voting system of FIG.
It is a figure which shows the candidate selection screen of.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing a candidate selection screen for a single-entry candidate election (plural pages) used by a non-disabled person in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1.

FIG. 25 is a diagram showing a screen displayed for an administrator and a helper when an elector who votes without using the voting screen in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1 is voted.

FIG. 26 is a diagram showing a candidate confirmation screen of a single-entry candidate election used by a non-disabled person in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1.

FIG. 27 is a diagram showing a political party selection screen of a restricted list type proportional representative election (single page) used by non-disabled people in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1.

28 is a diagram showing a political party selection screen of a restricted list proportional representation election (a plurality of pages) used by non-disabled people in the electronic voting system of FIG.

FIG. 29 is a diagram showing a political party confirmation screen of a restraint list proportional representation election used by non-disabled persons in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1.

30 is a diagram showing a judge selection screen of the Supreme Court judge national examination used by non-disabled persons in the electronic voting system of FIG.

31 is a diagram showing a dismissal judge confirmation screen of the Supreme Court judge national examination used by a non-disabled person in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 32 is a diagram showing a referendum selection screen (single page) used by a non-disabled person in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1.

33 is a diagram showing a referendum selection screen (a plurality of pages) used by a non-disabled person in the electronic voting system of FIG.

34 is a diagram showing a referendum confirmation screen used by a non-disabled person in the electronic voting system of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 35 is a flowchart of voting in the electronic voting system of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

3a Information card (portable recording medium) 3b Touch panel LCD (voting acceptance means, display means)

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Katsumi Inoue             3-12 Moriya-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa             Local Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. F-term (reference) 3E038 AA01 BB01 DA10 KA01

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An electronic voting system for electronically accepting votes, comprising vote acceptance means, display means for displaying information necessary for voting on a display screen, and each elector who votes. And a portable recording medium recording the physical characteristic information of the elector, and the character of the display screen according to the physical characteristic information read from the portable recording medium of the elector who casts the ballot when voting. An electronic voting system comprising: a control unit that changes a size and / or a display position. 2. A computer program executed by a computer to perform a barrier-free electronic vote, the step of recognizing an information card possessed by an elector who votes, and the election recorded in the information card. Reading personal characteristics, creating a voting screen that matches the electoral characteristics, controlling the voting screen according to the voting operation of the elector, and recording voting data by the voting operation A computer program comprising: 3. The computer according to claim 2, wherein the electoral characteristic in the information card includes a disability characteristic of the elector and does not include information that can identify the elector. program. 4. The electoral characteristic includes at least one of an elderly person with presbyopia, a visually impaired person who is not severe, a deaf person, a physically handicapped person, and a non-disabled person. The computer program according to claim 2 or claim 3.