Hursti - Votoscope - free, open source software

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

October 2, 2005

Votoscope Software by Harri Hursti

So, what I have been working on has now been named as "Votoscope". It is free, open source software - when I release it mid-month, it is once and for all out of my hands. As source code, it is not polished to be optimized, absolutely opposite, sacrifices in source code everything to be easy to understand with less than average programming skills - it is more a tutorial how to build a optical mark recognization software than a end product, but it gets the job done.

The idea was very simple :
1) I found out that high speed scanners of Diebold are actually 3 step process - first ballots are imaged as digital images and stord as individual files to image server and then images are interpreted by OMR software and then results are transmitted to cenrtal tabulator for final processing - but the files are left to image server. Other manufactures have similar design for their high speed scanners - hartintercivic confirmed that this is the case with all their scanners including precinct based.

2) Few election supervisors had made point to me that ballots are public records and citizens have access to them via Freedom on Information Act and Public Record Requests. As paper ballots those can not be allowed to be more than inspected to preserve intergrity. In case of digital image exists... in most cases only reasonable cost to copy it on CDs or DVDs. So, no new laws are required.

http://vote.nist.gov/comment_harri_hursti.pdf

[BeFree]

1. Has anyone ?

Who has seen one of these "images"?

Has anyone yet filed a request to get a cd of the images?

Can any images from the CA-50 dispute be obtained?

[Bill Bored]

2. kick nt

[troubleinwinter]

3. ?? Has it been released ??

[fooj]

4. kandr