Pen meets Paper to create a rich voting experience.
PenPoll
PenPoll is an innovative product that prints a jurisdictions pollbooks on Anoto paper. The voters then sign the polling book using our digital pens. At the close of the polls we place the pens in the cradle and download all the signatures onto our server. From that we instantly have a listing of all the voters that checked in to vote. At present the poll workers have to manually count up all the signatures in the book and compare that to the number of voters recorded by the voting machines.
We save them from that task. In addition, voter credit is traditionally handled by bringing the books back to the home office where a bar code is swiped or read by a bar code reader. Those voter IDs are then passed on to the voter registration system. However, that process is often not completed until around 2 weeks after the election. We offer the ability to have the entire county done within hours of the close of polls.
We save them from that task. In addition, voter credit is traditionally handled by bringing the books back to the home office where a bar code is swiped or read by a bar code reader. Those voter IDs are then passed on to the voter registration system. However, that process is often not completed until around 2 weeks after the election. We offer the ability to have the entire county done within hours of the close of polls.
Furthermore, many jurisdictions must cross off a list of voters that have come in and post that at various hours during the voting day. We have the ability to print that list at will; including those who have come to vote, as well as those that have not come to vote. This information is often quite critical to political parties for their “Get out the Vote” campaigns.
The process begins by printing the existing book on Anoto paper. In order to save dot space, we only need to dot-enable the right half of the book that contains the signature box as well as the problem box at the far right.
The process begins by printing the existing book on Anoto paper. In order to save dot space, we only need to dot-enable the right half of the book that contains the signature box as well as the problem box at the far right.
In addition, since we have already created a database of all the names of those in the precinct, we can generate a report that mirrors the actual pollbook and shows those who checked-in and those who have not, along with any notations for the problem box. Shown below is that report for pollbook page 14 (image shown above).
The necessary raw data file is rather simple, and would look like this:
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