[EM] IRV proponents figure out how to make IRV precinct-summable

Raph Frank raphfrk at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 16:35:31 PDT 2009


I uploaded the example ballot .pdf file that the code uses to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/temp_ballot.pdf

Also, some intermediate files from processing the image0001.pnp file.

This is after determining the alignment points:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/regen_plus.bmp

These are the images of each extracted box (after rescaling etc):

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/small_0.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/small_1.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/small_2.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/small_3.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/small_4.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/small_5.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/small_6.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/small_7.bmp

These are the same boxes after processing
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/short_0.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/short_1.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/short_2.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/short_3.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/short_4.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/short_5.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/short_6.bmp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/files/Ballot%20image/short_7.bmp

It gets 7 of the 8 correct.  The only error is the blank box (5).

The main thing, atm, that causes errors is the boxes themselves, as
the processing interprets them as part of the handwriting.  I think
that shouldn't be to hard to fix, but would require that the extracted
boxes are processed to find out exactly where their boundary lines
are.  Currently, it is open loop, it is assumed that the alignment
points are determined exactly.

With that, it could end up with 85%+ (at least with my handwriting :) ).



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