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Fay's avatar

Few people can sleuth like you! Thanks for your hard work.

It seems that they have specific public sector software which has enabled them to get their foot in the door in many countries as they specialise in local government business, spreading out to housing, libraries, parking and much more. They employ a number of locals so some of their profit remains here!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civica

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Richard Seager's avatar

Their software is either not up to it or it 'allows' human interaction.

718 votes to Andrew Whiley in the Dunedin election, after he'd been elected (and therefore his excess votes above quota should have been allocated from him and not to him) has yet to be explained to me by Anthony Morton at Electionz.

I think it's just scanners and spreadsheets anyway. I don't think that the software is anything special.

https://idm.net.au/article/0011950-nz-local-government-elections-count-abbyy

"The ballot papers were scanned by a fleet of seven Kodak i4200 high-volume scanners which can handle up to 100,000 pages per day"

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Richard Seager's avatar

My little IX500 can do 36000 a day (25ppm x 60 x 24)

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Fay's avatar

They supposedly have visible identifier barcodes which I assume

would be easy to scan. But still there can always be human interaction.

Politics is not the cleanest world.

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Richard Seager's avatar

I have a spare, shall check. Currently in rubbish bin.

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Fay's avatar

Have you found it?

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Richard Seager's avatar

I have. Will have a good look at it.

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