As the pre-setting device of the vote calculation categorization device and the vote calculation categorization device and the handwritten character which is posted to its manner and the media null vote which records

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the processing time of a ballot counting and assorting device for assortment, etc., within a fixed period of time and, at the same time, to reduce the assorting error of the device to about zero. SOLUTION: A ballot counting and assorting device sets a reject flag at every wiring pattern of candidate names. When a character string recognized by means of a character recognizing section 54 carries as 'ON' reject flag, the device unconditionally rejects the ballot and, when the character string carries an 'OFF' reject flag, the device recognizes the character string by means of a knowledge processing section 55 and detailed discrimination processing section 56 more accurately than the character recognizing section 54 does.