Abstract: An apparatus for enables electronic computerized counting of votes cast by voters in an election. The apparatus is adapted to enable electronic computerized recording, counting, and storing of votes cast by voters on ballot cards at precinct polling places remote from a central district office without exposing the ballot card to any person other than the voter. It is further adapted to enable electronic computerized programming and testing of the election at large, control of the introduction of the election into individual precinct formats, and reading, aggregating, and tallying of the stored precinct counts for delivering the results of the election. The apparatus includes a plurality of electronic computerized precinct workstations, each adapted to read, count, and store the votes cast at a precinct polling place, powered by a self-contained battery.

Abstract: A modular microprocessor-based code printing and reading system, adapted to print a personal coded identifier and other codes relating to categories of school-attendance recordkeeping on a form, and to read the codes from the form to generate data for processing thereof. The system is particularly adapted for use in the school-attendance recordkeeping process, with the codes including a bar code, representing an identifier assigned to the person so identified.The system includes a laser printer, micropocessor-based, operable in response to a laser control program, for printing the codes associated with the particular person at the appropriate location on the form.The system further includes a portable compact reader, microprocessor-based, which includes a wand adapted to sense the bar code on the form. The reader is operable in response to control by the operator, and to a reader control program, for reading the bar code, to generate data relating to the person identified thereby for processing thereof.

Abstract: A modular microprocessor-based code printing and reading system, adapted to print a personal coded indentifier on a form, and to read the code from the form to generate data for processing thereof. The system is particularly adapted for use in the elections process, with the code comprising a bar code, representing an identifier assigned to the person identified, which identifier is random relative to an alphabetical listing of persons so identified.The system includes a laser printer, microprocessor-based, operable in response to a laser control program, for printing the bar code associated with the particular person at the appropriate location on the form.The system further includes a portable compact reader, microprocessor-based, which includes a wand adapted to sense the bar code on the form. The reader is operable in response to control by the operator, and to a reader control program, for reading the bar code, to generate data relating to the person identified thereby for processing thereof.