TY - GEN
T1 - Document analysis support for the manual auditing of elections
AU - Lopresti, Daniel
AU - Zhou, Xiang
AU - Huang, Xiaolei
AU - Tan, Gang
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Recent developments have resulted in dramatic changes in the way elections are conducted, both in the United States and around the world. Well-publicized flaws in the security of electronic voting systems have led to a push for the use of verifiable paper records in the election process. In this paper, we describe the application of document analysis techniques to facilitate the manual auditing of elections, both to assure the reliability of the final outcome as well as to help reconcile the differences that may arise between repeated scans of the same ballot. We show how techniques developed for document duplicate detection can be applied to this problem, and present experimental results that demonstrate the efficacy of our approach. Related issues concerning machine support for the auditing of elections are also discussed.
AB - Recent developments have resulted in dramatic changes in the way elections are conducted, both in the United States and around the world. Well-publicized flaws in the security of electronic voting systems have led to a push for the use of verifiable paper records in the election process. In this paper, we describe the application of document analysis techniques to facilitate the manual auditing of elections, both to assure the reliability of the final outcome as well as to help reconcile the differences that may arise between repeated scans of the same ballot. We show how techniques developed for document duplicate detection can be applied to this problem, and present experimental results that demonstrate the efficacy of our approach. Related issues concerning machine support for the auditing of elections are also discussed.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.279
DO - 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.279
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:71249143502
SN - 9780769537252
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
SP - 733
EP - 737
BT - ICDAR2009 - 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
T2 - ICDAR2009 - 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Y2 - 26 July 2009 through 29 July 2009
ER -