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oday in the ‘paper voting’
election process, paper ballots
are counted by hand or by
using Optical Mark Recognition (OMR).
But with OMR, the marks need to
be made in very specific places. The
legacy approaches are more sensitive
and therefore prone to errors, plus the
overall process is slower. Digitising
ballots is important because it offers
governments the ability to show
transparency & accuracy in a vital
democratic process, while also being
able to provide results quickly.
David Whitton, General Manager of
Kodak Alaris Information Management
- Eastern Cluster (Middle East, Africa,
East Europe, Turkey & Russia) says,
“The future of elections is undoubtedly
digital technology and most electoral
management bodies must adopt new
solutions to improve the electoral
process, both in terms of speed and
transparency of the results. Digital
in this case doesn’t mean electronic
voting but rather digitising ballot
papers and processing the information
after it’s scanned. The requirement for
this is a reliable scanning and software
solution to help save time and reduce
errors when tallying the votes.”
The Kodak Alaris solution is versatile,
as a number of election bodies have
seen. The ballots can be presented
in any orientation and it handles
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INTELLIGENTCIO
BESIDES THE SECURITY,
COMPLIANCE,
TIME SAVINGS AND
REDUCTION OF ERRORS,
ONE OF THE MAIN
BENEFITS IS THAT THE
SOLUTION RESULTS IN
TRANSPARENCY AND
REASSURES THE PUBLIC
THAT THE PROCESS IS
LEGITIMATE
varying sizes of ballot papers, which is
dictated by the number of candidates
on the ballot. All of the scanning takes
place within one unit. This allows the
solution to be centrally administered
with the v