JPH09223216A - Voting form counting and sorting machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly sum up the voting forms of the national review by mounting the plural voting forms, supplying them one by one, reading the discharge mark entry column of the voting form, recognizing a discharge mark and counting the number of the discharge marks for respective plural judges. SOLUTION: The supply part 11 of this voting form counting and sorting machine 1 is provided with a kicker roller 103 and a feed roller 105 and a hopper 6 is attached so as to project to the outside of the machine. A read part 12 is provided with a sensor unit 121 and reads the entire voting form which arrives under the sensor unit 121. A recognition part 13 recognizes to which judge a x mark entered by a votor is attached in the case of the national review from the image of the read voting form. A classification part 14 is provided with plural branching paths, controls branching at the point of time when the voting form arrives at a sorting sensor S4 based on a recognized result in the recognition part 13 and sends the voting form to stackers 7-1-7-4. Also, a control part 15 performs the entire control and counting.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ballot paper counting and sorting machine, and is used for a counting operation in a national examination for examining whether or not to dismiss a judge of the Supreme Court.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the counting of voting results after a national examination has been conducted against judges of the Supreme Court is that after counting the national examination, many counting persons read the ballots one by one,
First, ballots were sorted according to the number of dismissal marks, that is, x marks, and then, one by one was read for each number of x marks, and the total was calculated for each judge. In this case, various aggregation methods have been considered, but for efficiency,
Those who have an X mark on all judges (hereinafter referred to as all X) or those that do not have one X mark (hereinafter,
For all white), they are collected separately and then counted by a counter.

[0003]

However, the task of manually classifying the ballots by the number of x marks is complicated, and in particular, for a vote with a plurality of x marks, which judge will give the x mark. There is a problem that it is very time-consuming because it is necessary to check whether or not each sheet is attached and count the number. Conventionally, there has not been a device for automatically performing such a national examination.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a ballot-sheet counting / sorting machine that can quickly collect ballots for national examination.

[0005]

A ballot paper counting and sorting machine according to the present invention mounts a plurality of ballot papers having columns for dismissal marks corresponding to the names of a plurality of judges and repeats them one by one. A feeding means for feeding, a reading means for reading the column for entering the disclaimer mark on the ballot sheet delivered by the delivering means, and a recognizing means for recognizing the disclaimer mark entered from the column for entering the disclaimer mark read by the reading means. A counting means for counting the number of dismissal marks for each of the plurality of judges based on the recognition result of the recognition means.

As a result, the number of dismissal marks for each judge can be quickly known, and the efficiency of counting work can be improved.

If the counting means further counts the total number of the dismissal marks, the confirmation work can be speeded up.

Further, the ballot paper counting and sorting machine according to the present invention is provided with a feeding means for mounting a plurality of ballot papers each having a dismissal mark entry field corresponding to a plurality of judges' names, and feeding this one by one. Reading means for reading the abatement mark entry column of the ballot paper fed out by the feeding means, recognition means for recognizing the number of abatement marks filled in from the abatement mark entry column read by the reading means, and counting A plurality of stackers for stacking the subsequent voting papers and a control means for sorting and counting the voting papers into a plurality of stackers based on the recognition result of the recognition means are provided.

As a result, it is possible to perform classification in various modes and speed up result analysis and confirmation. For example, it is possible to classify ballots having only one dismissal mark into each stacker and sort them into a stacker, or sort them according to the number of dismissal marks into a stacker.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of a ballot paper counting and sorting machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

An operation panel including a liquid crystal display unit 2, a start / stop key 3 and a function key 4 is provided on the upper front portion of the main body 1, and a position corresponding to a stacker 7 attached to the left side surface is provided on the left side of the front surface. An LED indicator 5 for displaying the stacker number is provided. Also,
A hopper portion 6 is provided on the right side surface of the main body. This hopper has a capacity of, for example, 500 sheets. The sorted ballot papers are placed on the hopper unit 6, sorted and stored in the stacker unit 7. The stacker unit 7 is a 4-stage stacker 7.
-1, 7-2, 7-3, 7-4, and the lowest stage (fourth stage in the embodiment) is dedicated to rejecting invalid votes, unreadable votes, and the like.

FIG. 2A is a front view showing the details of the operation panel in FIG. 1, for example, a liquid crystal display unit 2 of 320.times.240 dots for displaying numbers, symbols, etc., for instructing start and stop of processing. The start / stop key 3 and the function key 4 consisting of three keys F1 to F3 for designating necessary functions are shown. The state of this function key is displayed in the function key content display field 2a at the lower right of the liquid crystal display unit 2.

FIG. 2B shows a ten-key pad 8 provided on the back surface of the front panel provided with the liquid crystal display section and the like shown in FIG. This numeric keypad 8 has 0 to 9
Numeric keypad to specify the numbers up to, "Enter" key to confirm the input of the set numerical value, "Clear" key to cancel the set numerical value and processing data, "Mode" key to switch each mode described later, "Batch" key used to switch the setting of the number of batches, "Addition" key to turn addition on / off, "Setting" to move to user setting
A key is provided.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the mode transition of the ballot paper counting and sorting machine according to the present invention. As shown in this flowchart, every time the "mode" key is pressed, "national examination / counting mode", "national examination / classification 1 mode", "national examination / classification 2 mode", "election / classification mode", " Transitions like "counting mode". The “national examination / aggregation mode” is used for normal aggregation, and the “national examination / classification 1 mode” is for classifying ballots with a × number of 1 by judge. The “two-mode” classifies ballots according to the number of x. These are modes that enable quick classification in place of the current manual work by performing after the end of the aggregation mode. The "election / classification mode" is a mode used at the time of election, and Japanese Patent Application No. Hei 7-222267. It is the content filed as an issue.

When the power is turned on, the "national examination / collection mode" is set. Further, it is possible to skip any mode by using the “setting” key described above.

FIG. 4 is a view showing a ballot for a national examination which is applied to the ballot counting machine according to the present invention. The column above the column where the judge's name is printed in advance is the column for writing the X mark.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the overall internal structure of the embodiment of the present invention.

This ballot paper counting and sorting machine 1 has a feeding section 11,
It has a reading unit 12, a recognition unit 13, a classification unit 14, and a control unit 15.

The feeding section 11 has a kicker roller 103 for feeding and a feed roller 105 driven by a conveying motor 110, and has a national examination ballot or an election ballot (hereinafter simply referred to as ballot). The hopper 6 is attached so as to project to the outside of the machine for feeding.

The reading unit 12 has a sensor unit 121, and an area sensor 122 is provided above the sensor unit 121.
Read the entire ballot that came under this sensor unit. The sensor S3 is a sensor for feeding.

The recognition unit 13 is mainly composed of an electronic circuit, and from the image of the ballot paper read by the reading unit, in the case of a national examination, which judge has the X mark attached by the voters. Recognize.

The classification unit 14 is provided with a plurality of branch passages, and based on the recognition result of the recognition unit 13, the branching is controlled when the voting paper comes to the sorting sensor S4, and the voting paper is sent to the corresponding stacker. It is like this.

The control unit 15 controls and counts the whole. In this device, under the control of the control unit, the function of preliminarily learning the frame of the voting paper, that is, the registration paper in which the column for the number of judges is printed in advance, is used to determine the reading position of the cross Functions such as learning and storing, correspondence between a frame and a stacker, and a function of changing correspondence between the number x and a stacker are realized.

FIG. 6 is a schematic front view showing details of the structure of the feeding section 11, and FIG. 7 is a schematic plan view thereof. The kicker roller 103 composed of a rubber roller is driven by the belt 102 by the stepping motor 101. The feed roller 105 driven by the transport motor 110 via the timing belt 111 and the transport belt 108 feeds the voting paper taken in by the kicker roller 103 to the transport belt 108.
To be transported with. At this time, the two-sheet feed is blocked by the cooperation with the reverse rotation roller 106. The conveyor belt 108
Are driven faster than the feeding belt 104. In order to make this possible, while the pulley and shaft of the conveyor belt 108 and the shaft, feed roller, and pulley of the feed roller 105 are fixed, respectively, the delivery belt 1
A bearing is attached to the pulley of the No. 04 feed roller 105 side so as to be free from rotation. Further, a speed-up roller 107 which is mounted by a bearing so as to rotate freely is provided so as to absorb the speed difference described above.

The sensor S1 is a sensor for detecting the presence of the ballot paper to be fed out. Also, the sensor S
Reference numeral 2 is a sensor for detecting that a ballot sheet has entered the sensor unit 121 and for measuring the length of the ballot sheet. That is, the pulses of the rotary encoder 109 are counted while the voting paper is passing through the sensor S2, and the length of the voting paper can be known from the number of pulses. After the time t1 when the output of the sensor S2 is turned off due to light shielding, the rotation of the feeding motor 101 is stopped, and after the time t2 when the sensor S2 is turned on, the feeding motor 1 is turned on.
Although 01 is rotated, if the values of t1 and t2 are changed according to the length of the ballot paper, it is possible to increase the processing speed of feeding out the ballot paper having various short lengths. The delay values t1 and t2 of the feeding motor 101 are automatically set to prestored values based on the length of the first voting sheet.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described in detail. The ballot paper counting and sorting machine according to the present embodiment has five modes as described above, but the counting mode is a mode in which only counting is performed, and the election classification mode is applied to the same applicant. Japanese Patent Application No. 7-222267
The detailed description is omitted here.

FIG. 8 is a flow chart showing the details of the setting operation in the ballot paper counting and sorting machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.

First, the "setting" key of the ten-key pad 8 of the operation unit is pressed to enter the setting mode (step S10).
1). Here, a number prepared in advance as a layout mode is input using the ten keys and the "input" key is pressed to shift to the layout registration mode (step S102).

To register the layout, a voting ballot for registration, that is, a blank ballot having a line width of 1 mm or more is placed on the hopper (step S103), and the start button is pressed (step S104). In addition, when the line of the ballot for registration is thin, it is necessary to make it thick by using an appropriate writing tool. The frame layout is recognized and registered when the registration ballot is taken in (step S105). For this recognition, a recognition technology applying a neural network, for example, the technology described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-324837 can be used.

Although the actual ballots are used here, the number and dimensions of the frames,
The layout can be registered by inputting the margin length and the like using the ten keys.

At the time when the layout registration is completed, or when the layout registration is not performed, the process proceeds to the next step 106, and the order of the frames in the voting paper (from the leftmost column, 1, 2, 3 ... (Display is judge) A), B, C, ...)) and the order of the stacker is changed, enter the number prepared as the correspondence relationship registration mode (order change mode),
Press the setting key (step S106). If you do not make such input, from the right side of the ballot box frame 1,
Are defined as 2, 3, 4, ... And correspond to 1, 2, 3, 4, ... Numbered in order from the top of the stacker. Further, when there are four or more frames of the voting paper, the stacker 4 is made to correspond to all the fourth and subsequent frames.

When the correspondence of the order of the frame and the stacker is changed, the procedure is as follows. This setting basically applies a frame based on the stacker position. That is, when the order change mode is entered, the frame number set in the stacker 1 is displayed first. In the normal registration, 1 is the rightmost frame, indicating that "Stacker 1" is displayed on the liquid crystal display.
= 1 ”is displayed. Here, assuming that the third frame corresponds to the stacker 1, if you input 3 using the numeric keypad and press the "SET" key, the display will be 1 = 3, and the frame 3
It can be seen that corresponds to stacker 1.

Next, in order to move to the setting of the stacker 2, if a separate key is pressed, the registered contents up to this point are displayed, so that the setting contents can be changed as necessary by the same procedure as described above. .

When the setting for all stackers is completed, the "registration" key is pressed to store the setting contents up to this point and exit the order change mode. Then, if the "register" key is pressed again, the setting mode is exited. Although the correspondence between the frame order and the stacker order has been described, the correspondence between the number of × numbers and the stacker order can be set for almost the same kind of operation.

Note that various other settings can be made on the operation unit. It is possible to switch between a counting mode for performing simple counting and a sorting mode for performing sorting. When the batch number key is pressed repeatedly for the number of batches which is one counting unit, no display is made, 10, 20, 25, 50, 100
Therefore, it is possible to set an appropriate number.
100 stackers are fully loaded. The number of batch sheets is usually set to 100. Also, if you press the key separately, the presence / absence recognition level and ○
It is possible to switch the level at which the X symbol can be accurately recognized. After counting all the ballots in the hopper,
It is for selecting whether or not to perform the subsequent cumulative addition.

It is also possible to display and confirm the various setting contents as described above.

Next, operations in various modes of national examination will be described.

As described above, out of the three modes for national examination, only totaling can be registered by setting (hereinafter referred to as A mode), and totaling, classification 1 and classification 2 are possible. It is also possible to register (hereinafter referred to as B mode). As shown in the figure, the difference between the A mode and the B mode is whether or not to include white votes in the counting target, and the stacker allocation.

That is, in the A mode, all voting papers including white votes are counted, and all the stackers 7-1 to 7-3 store various voting papers in which various X marks are filled and are stored. In 7-4, question marks, unreadable votes, etc. are stored, whereas in B mode, white votes are removed and put into the hopper, and the stacker 7-1 has a ballot paper with only one x mark, The stacker 7-2 stores a ballot paper having an X mark of 2, a stacker 7-3 stores ballot papers having an X mark of 3, and the stacker 7-4 stores an interrogative vote, an unreadable vote, and the like.

In either mode, as a pre-counting process, the voting paper is manually opened one by one, and the front and back / top and bottom are arranged so that they can be read by the counting and sorting machine. At this time, invalid questionnaires out of the question questionnaires, for example, those marked with a mark other than X, those marked with X outside the frame, etc. are separated separately. In addition, the total white votes with no x usually accounts for about 85% and is easy to distinguish. Therefore, in order to perform the processing in the B mode, it is excluded by this pre-processing and counted separately. The efficiency can be improved.

Next, the flowchart of FIG. 10 and FIG.
21 to 21, the basic counting and sorting operations in the ballot paper counting and sorting machine according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described. Here, an example in which addition is turned on and the number of batches is set to 100 will be taken up.

When the power is turned on, initialization is performed and during that period, an initial screen A as shown in FIG. 11 is displayed. After the initialization is completed, the screen moves to the following processing screen.
If not specified, the default mode is national examination / counting mode.

It is monitored that the ballots are placed on the hopper (step S201), and when the ballots aligned in the front and back and in the same direction are detected by the sensor or the like, as shown in FIG.
A screen B as shown in FIG. 9 indicates that the start is possible. The Supreme Court has a maximum of 15 judges
By being a name, up to 15 people can be displayed.

Upon detection of pressing of the start button (step S202), feeding of the voting paper is started (step S203). As mentioned above, the ballots placed on the hopper include white votes in the A mode.
In the B mode, the white votes are excluded.

The entered contents of the fed paper are recognized and counted (step S204). In other words, at a certain moment, the timing sensor for reading captures all the fields on the ballot mark, and by image recognition using a neural network, finds all the positions (columns) marked with an X to determine the number of applicable judges. Count. Here, the unrecognized ones, the ones with a mark other than the X mark, etc. are rejected to the reject stacker 7-4. Then, based on the recognition result, the ballots are classified and sorted into the corresponding stackers according to the entered contents (step S205). As a result of this sorting, as shown in screen B of FIG. 12, the result of totaling the number x of each judge is displayed.

Whether any one of the stackers is full (100 sheets) (step S206), one of the stackers has reached the number of batches (step S207), or whether the hopper is empty (step S208). It is constantly monitored.

If the hopper is not empty, the process returns to step S204 and continues unless the stop button is pressed (step S231).

When the stacker is not full and the number of batches is not reached and the hopper is empty, the feeding is stopped (step S209). At this point, the presence or absence of reject paper is checked (step S210), and if there is no reject paper, the number display is confirmed (step S212), and the process ends, but when there is a reject paper, when recounting is executed (step S211), the reject bill is rejected. Is returned to the hopper and re-counting is performed from step S201. If re-counting is not performed, it is confirmed whether the rejected question sheet is a valid one and the number display is confirmed (step S212) To do.

When any one of the stackers is full or the number of the stackers reaches the number of batches, the feeding is stopped (step S221), and the LED display beside the corresponding stacker blinks (step S2).
22). When in A mode, stackers 7-1 to 7-
The feeding is stopped only when all of them are full up to 3 or when the reject stacker 7-4 is full. In response to the blinking, when it is detected that the ballot is pulled out from the stacker by the staff member (step S
223), the LED is turned off (step S224), and the feeding is restarted.

When the stop button is pushed by an attendant or the like for some reason while the hopper is not empty (step S23).
In 1), the feeding is stopped (step S232), and when the start button is pressed, the feeding is restarted (step S225).

In the case of mode A, the stackers 7-1 to 7-3
The stacker is switched to the stacker sequentially for each ballot sheet, but may be switched to the next stacker every time it is full.

After the operation of the voting paper counting and sorting machine is completed, the staff member confirms the number of sheets. This confirmation is performed by counting in the counting mode or by using another counter. Then, all the data in the vote counting place are totaled and the counting work is completed.

As a result, x counts for each judge are displayed as shown in FIG. When the function key F1 is pressed in this state, the screen C- in FIG. 13 and FIG. 14 is displayed.
1, C-2 are displayed. These display the distribution of votes according to the number of x, and pages can be switched by the function key F2. If the number of judges subject to national examination is 8 or less, it will fit on one page,
There is no page display, and the position of the function key F2 is also blank.

When the function key F1 is pressed on these screens, the number of x numbers classified by judge as shown in the screens D-1 and D-2 of FIGS. The number of votes that were marked with a cross is displayed. This judge has one page for each judge.

In the case of A mode, after all the aggregation processing is completed, the above operation is repeated once again to confirm the
If the numbers are the same, it is OK.

In the case of the B mode, after the counting in the national examination totaling mode is completed, the ballot paper with the number x stored in the stacker 7-1 is the national examination / classification 1 mode and the stacker 7
Ballots with 3 or more × stored in -3 are analyzed in the national examination / classification 2 mode. In addition, the contents of the ballots with the number x of 2 stored in the stacker 7-2 are checked by the staff.

The transition from the aggregation mode to the classification mode 1 and the transition from the classification mode 1 to the classification mode 2 can be performed by pressing the mode key in the numeric keypad 8 as described above.

The processing in these classification modes is performed according to the flow chart shown in FIG. 10, and the state of stacker allocation in both modes is shown in FIG.

As is apparent from the figure, the national examination / classification 1 mode is a classification process for only 1 × voting paper. According to the recognition result, the judges A to J are sorted into the stacker 7-1 to the stacker 7-3 for the first time, and all the other judges are stored in the stacker 7-4. In addition, unrecognizable ballots are also put in the stacker 7-4. The counting result is shown on the screen E-1 of FIG.

In the second time, the ballot sheets stored in the stacker 7-4 are similarly classified, and the judges D to J are sorted from the stacker 7-1 to the stacker 7-3, and the other judges are stacked. Store in 7-4. The counting result is shown on the screen E-2 of FIG. By repeating the same process thereafter, it is possible to know to which judge the voter who attached only one X attached.

After the counting work, the contents stored in these stackers are inspected by a staff member, and the number of sheets is confirmed by confirming the number of sheets again with another counting machine or the like. Then, all the data in the vote counting place are totaled and the vote counting work is completed.

The national examination / classification 2 mode is 1 ×, 2 ×,
Used when sorting ballots other than all × and all white. First, in the national examination count mode, the ballots with 3 or more × stored in the stacker 7-3 are put in the hopper, and the 3 to 5x ballots are recognized to recognize the stackers 7-1 to 7-3.
And sorts 6 × or more ballots and unrecognizable ballots into the stacker 4. Unrecognizable ballots are also put in the stacker 7-4. The counting result in this state is shown on the screen F-1 in FIG.

Next, the ballot sheets of the stacker 7-4 are placed on the hopper and fed out, and the 6 × to 8 × ballot sheets are stacked.
-1 is sorted into the stacker 7-3, and the other 9x or more are stored in the stacker 7-4. The counting result in this state is shown in FIG.
Screen F-2. By repeating the same processing thereafter, it is possible to know the distribution status when a large number of x's are added.

The contents stored in these stackers are inspected by a staff member, and the number of sheets is confirmed again by another counter or the like to determine the number of sheets. Then, all the data in the vote counting place are totaled and the vote counting work is completed.

Next, when the mode key is pressed in the classification 2 mode, the election / classification mode is set. This is described in detail in Japanese Patent Application No. 7-222267 filed by the same applicant. Omit it.

In the above embodiment, the number of stackers was four, but this number can be arbitrarily increased or decreased. Further, the number of hoppers and stackers accommodated can be arbitrarily changed depending on the application.

In the embodiment, the current number of judges is 1.
Since there are 5 people, the maximum number of recognition in the reading field is 15
However, up to about 30 is possible.

If a plurality of ballot paper counting and sorting machines are prepared, for example, when performing national examination / classification 2 mode, 2 × to 4 × are the first unit and 5 × to 7 × are The second unit, 8x to 10x, the third unit, 11x to 13x, the fourth unit, and 14x, the fifth unit can be processed more quickly.

Further, all white, all ×, 1 ×, etc. may be manually excluded in advance and counted separately.

The stacker allocation in the A mode and the B mode can be arbitrarily changed.

[0072]

As described above, according to the present invention, ballots having the judge's name and the dismissal mark entry field printed in advance are recognized and counted and sorted, so that it is quick and accurate. It becomes possible to perform the totaling. In this case, the same process as the conventional manual work can be performed quickly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an external appearance of a ballot paper counting and sorting machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2A is a front view showing a panel surface of an operation unit in FIG. 1, and FIG. 2B is a front view showing a numeric keypad. .

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a transition of operation modes in the ballot paper counting and sorting machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a voting paper.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an overall internal configuration according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a schematic front view showing details of the configuration of the feeding unit 11.

FIG. 7 is a schematic plan view of FIG.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing details of a setting operation.

FIG. 9 is a chart illustrating a difference between two registration modes.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating a counting / sorting operation according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an initial screen.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display in a tallying mode.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing the first page of the screen showing the aggregation result for each number of × marks, which is switched from the screen of FIG. 12;

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a second page of the screen showing the aggregation result for each number of x marks, which is switched from the screen of FIG. 12;

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing the first page of the screen showing the aggregation result by judge × number, which is switched from the screen of FIG. 13 or FIG.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing the second page of the screen showing the totalized results by judge × number, which is switched from the screen of FIG. 13 or FIG.

FIG. 17 is a chart comparing the contents of the classification 1 mode and the classification 2 mode.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a first page of a screen showing a counting result in the classification 1 mode.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a second page of the screen showing the result of counting in the classification 1 mode.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing a first page of a screen showing a result of tallying in the classification 2 mode.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a second page of the screen showing the result of tallying in the classification 2 mode.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 main body 2 liquid crystal display section 3 start / stop key 4 function key 5 LED display 6 hopper 7 stacker 8 numeric keypad 11 feeding section 12 reading section 13 recognition section 14 sorting section 15 control section 103 kicker roller 105 feed roller 108 transport belt 111 Rotary encoder

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A feeding means for placing a plurality of ballot sheets each having a dismissal mark entry field corresponding to a plurality of judges' names, and feeding the sheet one by one, and the ballot sheet fed by the feeding means. Reading means for reading the abatement mark entry field of, the recognition means for recognizing the abatement mark entered from the abatement mark entry field read by the reading means, and each of the plurality of judges based on the recognition result of the recognition means. And a counting means for counting the number of dismissal marks. 2. The ballot counting machine according to claim 1, wherein the counting means further counts the total number of the dismissal marks. 3. A feeding means for placing a plurality of ballot sheets each having a dismissal mark entry field corresponding to a plurality of judges' names, and feeding out the sheet one by one, and the ballot sheet fed out by the feeding means. Reading means for reading the abatement mark entry field, the recognition means for recognizing the number of abduction marks entered from the abatement mark entry field read by the reading means, and a plurality of stackers for loading the counted voting papers. And a control unit that sorts and counts the voting papers into a plurality of stackers based on the recognition result of the recognition device, and counts the voting papers. 4. The ballot sheet according to claim 3, wherein the control means sorts ballot sheets having only one dismissal mark for each judge and sorts them into the plurality of stackers. Counting sorting machine. 5. The ballot sheet counting and sorting machine according to claim 3, wherein the control means sorts the plurality of stackers by classifying them according to the number of the dismissal marks.