JPH1173471A - Election receiving system utilizing bar code - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an election receiving system capable of solving a conventional problem requiring much time and labor for the collation of elector lists in election receiving processing and attaining the efficiency of election. SOLUTION: A bar code generated from a zip code/numerical part of an address printed on a polling place entrance ticket 11 is read out by a reading means 1 as voter's information, the read result is collated with a voter list stored in an election master storage device 3 by a receiving terminal 2, the collated result is displayed on the display of an I/O part 4 as a candidate and the candidate is selected by a mouse to receive the person. Then a voting slip 01 is issued from a voting slip issuing machine 5.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an election reception system, and more particularly to an election reception system suitable for improving the efficiency of reception work at polling places in elections.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in elections of members of the Diet, prefectural governors, members of the Diet, mayors of municipalities, members of the Diet, and the like, postcards are used by local governments to give voters a polling place based on the Public Office Election Law. Was mailed, and the voters brought their postcards to the polling place and manually confirmed their identity by checking against a list of voters.

As an election terminal device for automating a polling place reception process, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. Hei 6-18070
No. 8 is referred to, and as an election terminal device for automating the voting action and counting work of the election, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
Reference is made to the description in JP-A-35940.

[0004]

The conventional system has the following problems.

[0005] The first problem is that it takes a lot of time to check the list of voters.

[0006] The reason is that the list of voters is in the form of a ledger, and verification is manually performed based on the address, name, etc. of the voters.

[0007] The second problem is that the collation of the voter list requires a large number of people and therefore a large number of work steps.

[0008] The reason is that at least three persons are required, a person in charge of reading a polling place admission ticket, a person in charge of searching a list of voters, and a person in charge of handing out a ballot paper.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an election reception system which promotes the efficiency and reliability of reception work at polling places. is there.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, an election reception system according to the present invention comprises: a reading means for reading a polling place admission ticket provided with a bar code capable of identifying a zip code and a numeral part of an address. Storage means for storing a list of voters; matching means for checking the read result against the list of voters in the storage means to output a monitor of the reception status; and And updating means for checking the completion of the vote and reflecting the result in the list of voters in the storage means, and issuing means for issuing a voting paper to the voters who have completed the reception.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. In a preferred embodiment of the election reception system of the present invention, in a preferred embodiment, a bar code generated from a zip code and a numeral part of an address printed on a polling place admission ticket (I1 in FIG. 1) is read as voter information (FIG. 1 of 1)
The read result is compared with the election list stored in the election master storage device (3 in FIG. 1) by the reception terminal (2 in FIG. 1), and the collated result is input / output unit (FIG. 1). The candidate is displayed as a candidate on the display of 1) 4), and is selected by using a pointing device such as a mouse to determine that the candidate has been accepted. Then, a voting paper (O1 in FIG. 1) is issued from the voting paper issuing machine (5 in FIG. 1) to the accepted voters.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a voting code and a bar code generated from a numeral part of an address are used as the voter information of the voting admission ticket, thereby enabling automatic reading by the reading means. Therefore, there is no need for manual reading.

The read voter information is transferred as a search key and collated by the collation means with the contents of the storage means, which is a list of voters in a database (DB). And updating means for checking whether or not the voter, which has been monitored and output by the collating means, has been accepted and reflecting the result in the voter list in the storage means, and by processing in a conversational manner, manually searching the voter list. Do not need.

Further, the voting paper can be issued from the issuing means in conjunction with the reception processing. For this reason, it is not necessary to manually distribute the voting paper, and the efficiency of the reception work can be greatly improved.

[0015]

Next, in order to describe the above-mentioned embodiment of the present invention in more detail, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of one embodiment of the present invention. The election reception system according to one embodiment of the present invention is used as a reception terminal at a polling place, and reads a polling place admission ticket, collates with a list of voters, issues a ballot paper, etc. The reception process is configured to be performed without human intervention as much as possible.

Referring to FIG. 1, the election reception system includes a reading device 1, a reception terminal 2, an election master storage device 3, an input / output unit 4, and a voting paper issuing machine 5.

The reading device 1 reads a bar code (see FIG. 2) generated from the zip code and the numeric part of the address printed on the polling place admission ticket I1 as voter information. Consists of a reader. The result of reading by the reading device 1 is transferred to the reception terminal 2 as voter information. FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining an example of a polling place admission ticket provided with a barcode for enabling identification of the postal code and the numeric part of the address and information necessary for the barcode (postal code and address display number). is there. The barcode may be printed on the back of the polling place admission ticket.

The reception terminal 2 is realized by, for example, a notebook personal computer.
The voter acceptance process is executed under program control.

The election master storage device 3 is, for example, a magnetic disk device 3-2 connected to the host computer 3-1.
And the like, and is connected to the reception terminal 2 via a public line or a dedicated line. In the election master storage device 3, the list of voters is stored in a database.

The input / output unit 4 is, for example, a display 4-
1, a keyboard 4-2 and a mouse 4-3. In the reception process in the reception terminal 2, the voter list stored in the election master storage device 3 is searched from the voter information read from the reading device 2, and the candidate names are displayed on the display 4-1. If the reception button of the corresponding voters is clicked with the mouse 4-3 from among the candidate names, and the barcode printed on the polling place admission ticket cannot be read by the reading device 2,
The numerical value of the bar code is input from the keyboard 4-2.

The voting paper issuing machine 5 is composed of a printer that outputs a voting paper O1 in response to an operation of clicking a reception button of a corresponding voters in the reception processing at the reception terminal 2.

Next, the operation of one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the flow of the overall operation processing of the election reception system according to one embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, the reception process includes a polling place admission ticket reading process (step S1) and a reception process (step S1).
2), voting paper issuance processing (step S3).

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of the operation of the polling place admission ticket reading process (step S1) of FIG.

Referring to FIG. 4, first, the voters who have arrived hand the polling place entrance ticket I1 that they have brought to the attendant. The attendant reads the passed polling place admission ticket I1 with the reading device 1 (step S11).

A barcode (FIG. 2) generated from the zip code of the voters and the numeric part of the address is printed on the polling place admission ticket I1, and the voter information using the address of the voters as a search key for the list of voters is included. Read.

If the reading is successful (YES branch of step S12), the process proceeds to the receiving process (step S2) of FIG.

If the reading fails due to an inadequate ticket at the polling place (NO in step S12), the attendant inputs the numerical value of the barcode from the keyboard of the input / output unit 4 with the hand of the attendant, and proceeds to the reception process (step S2). .

FIG. 5 shows the reception process of FIG. 3 (step S2).
5 is a flowchart showing the flow of the operation processing of FIG. Referring to FIG. 5, first, the input voter information is searched from the voter list stored in the election master storage device 3 (step S21).

If the corresponding voter information can be found in the list of voters stored in the election master storage device 3 (YES branch of step S22), the display of the input / output unit 4 displays FIG. Is displayed in the form of the screen A (step S23). Since the search key, which is voter information, is generated from the postal code and the numeric part of the address, the names of voters of households living at the address are displayed as a list.

By clicking on the accept button of the corresponding voters among the displayed candidates, it is determined that the vote has been accepted (step S24), and the voting paper issuance processing of FIG. 3 (step S24)
Go to 3).

If the corresponding voter information cannot be found in the voter list arranged in the election master storage device 3 (NO in step S22), the display of the input / output unit 4 displays the information shown in FIG. Screen B (candidate not found) is displayed (step S25), and the election reception system ends.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of the operation process of the voting paper issuing process (step S3) of FIG. The voting paper issuing machine 5 issues the voting paper O1 in conjunction with the operation of clicking the reception button of the corresponding voters in the reception processing (step S2) (step S2).
31), end the election reception system.

[0035]

As described above, according to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

A first effect of the present invention is that the collation of a voter list is made more efficient.

The reason for this is that, in the present invention, the list of voters is compiled into a database, and in the search for the relevant persons, the barcode printed on the polling place admission ticket brought by the voters is used as a search key on the display of the reception terminal. Is displayed.

A second effect of the present invention is that it is possible to collate a list of voters with a small number of people.

The reason for this is that, in the present invention, a series of reception processes such as reading out a polling place admission ticket, collating a voter's list, and distributing a voting paper can be performed by one person in charge. That's why.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a system configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing a polling place admission ticket in one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an overall operation procedure of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a polling place admission ticket reading process according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a reception process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a voting paper issuing process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a screen at the time of a reception process in one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 reading device 2 reception terminal 3 election master storage device 4 input / output unit 5 ballot paper issuing machine I1 polling place admission ticket O1 ballot paper

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A reading means for reading a polling place admission ticket provided with a bar code capable of identifying a zip code and a numeral part of an address, a storage means for storing voter list information, and a reading result of the reading means. A matching means for comparing the voter list information in the storage means to monitor and output a reception status; and checking whether the voter monitored and output by the matching means is unaccepted / completed, and checking the voter list information in the storage means. An election receiving system using a bar code, comprising: updating means for reflecting the information; and issuing means for issuing a voting ballot to a voter who has completed the reception. 2. A reading means for reading a bar code attached to a polling place admission ticket as a voter information so that a zip code and a numeral part of an address can be identified, and a reading result of the bar code is stored in an election master. When a candidate for a voter is searched in the master storage device based on the result of the check, the searched candidate is displayed on display means, and a corresponding person is selected from among the candidates. The election acceptance system using a barcode, characterized in that the election has been accepted by selecting a voting paper, and the voting paper issuing machine is controlled to automatically issue a voting paper.