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DRS e-Counting delivers seventh STV by-election in Scotland
DRS e-Counting solutions have once again delivered results efficiently and effectively, this time in the Doon Valley Ward by-election in East Ayrshire. This is the seventh time DRS e-Counting has been successfully employed in Scotland.
Returning Officer, Fiona Lees said the Doon Valley Ward election count was carried out very efficiently with results being available within 1 hour and 15 minutes.
The returned postal ballot papers and those completed at polling stations, totaling 2449 ballot papers, were electronically counted using two award winning DRS PhotoScribe® scanners in just 39 minutes. The papers were registered, scanned, verified and adjudicated where necessary by the Returning Officer and her staff. On this occasion the winning candidate was elected at the first stage of the complex single transferable count. But with all preferences captured from every ballot paper, any subsequent stages would have been immediately available to the Returning Officer.
Fiona Lees, Returning Officer, comments “This is the third time DRS e-Counting technologies have been successfully used in East Ayrshire. As the complex single transferable vote system was used for this by-election, electronic counting was our best option. It allows us to produce a result more quickly than would ever be the case with manual counting.”
DRS elections specialist, Sonya Anderson comments: “DRS is delighted to have worked with East Ayrshire Council once again, this time on the Doon Valley Ward by-election. It is our ongoing aim to help reduce the administrative burden of elections, whilst ensuring the security, integrity and accuracy of the results. It is a great pleasure to be working in partnership with East Ayrshire Council who once again has shown their commitment to the modernisation of their electoral processes.”
Additional information
DRS offers a full range of integrated election solutions and has delivered accurate, robust and secure e-Counting and e-Voting deployments around the world. Its technology gives assurance that the correct number of ballot papers are entered into the count and each paper is counted once, votes are electronically recorded where the voter’s intent is clear, images of e-Counting ballot papers where the voter’s intent is not clear are passed to election officials for adjudication and higher security measures are applied through audit trails and access controls.
The award winning DRS PS960 scanner is a finalist for the DM 2009 Awards for High Volume Scanner Product of the Year, Hardware product of the Year and Product of the Year. The awards reward outstanding products, suppliers and projects in the data, document and content management industry.
The PhotoScribe® PS960 scanner offers full duplex bitonal or greyscale image capture and can process ballot papers up to 18” in length. It sets a new standard in data and image processing innovation and has been used around the world to process complex and time critical elections, voter registration, census and examination processing exercises.
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