An enhanced security ballot image tabulator (16, 60) providing from a plurality of ballots to be tabulated an enhanced security ballot image record constituted by a plurality of enhanced security ballot image files that individually correspond respectively to the ballots of the plurality of ballots to be tabulated, comprising: a serial ballot feeder module adapted to serially feed at a feed rate each ballot of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated one after the other, each at a date and feed time that defines its unique time and date of feed, and each with a unique serial number that depends on its respective position in the sequence of said serially fed ballots of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated; a ballot image module operatively coupled to said serial ballot feeder adapted to serially receive each ballot of the plurality of ballots to be tabulated and to serially provide a plurality of ballot images thereof that individually correspond respectively to the ballots of said serially fed ballots of the plurality of ballot to be tabulated, each at its said unique time and date of feed and each with its said unique serial number; a ballot image analyzer module coupled to the ballot image module adapted to serially recognize whether or not the serially provided ballot images have races and/or matters having cast votes and to serially tabulate a plurality of cumulative running counts of the races and/or matters of the ballot images having recognized cast votes current with each said ballot image of said serially fed ballots of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated; a record compiler module coupled to said serial ballot feeder module, said image module and said analyzer module adapted to serially provide a plurality of enhanced security ballot image files, that respectively include, for each ballot of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated, its corresponding ballot image, its unique time and date of feed, its unique serial number, and its cumulative running votes cast tabulation current with said ballot image of said serially fed ballot of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated, and to compile an enhanced security ballot image record that is constituted by said enhanced security ballot image files,; and a memory for storing said enhanced security ballot image record that is constituted by said enhanced security ballot image files, that individually correspond respectively to the ballots of the plurality of ballots to be tabulated. a serial ballot feeder module adapted to serially feed at a feed rate each ballot of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated one after the other, each at a date and feed time that defines its unique time and date of feed, and each with a unique serial number that depends on its respective position in the sequence of said serially fed ballots of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated; a ballot image module operatively coupled to said serial ballot feeder adapted to serially receive each ballot of the plurality of ballots to be tabulated and to serially provide a plurality of ballot images thereof that individually correspond respectively to the ballots of said serially fed ballots of the plurality of ballot to be tabulated, each at its said unique time and date of feed and each with its said unique serial number; a ballot image analyzer module coupled to the ballot image module adapted to serially recognize whether or not the serially provided ballot images have races and/or matters having cast votes and to serially tabulate a plurality of cumulative running counts of the races and/or matters of the ballot images having recognized cast votes current with each said ballot image of said serially fed ballots of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated; a record compiler module coupled to said serial ballot feeder module, said image module and said analyzer module adapted to serially provide a plurality of enhanced security ballot image files, that respectively include, for each ballot of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated, its corresponding ballot image, its unique time and date of feed, its unique serial number, and its cumulative running votes cast tabulation current with said ballot image of said serially fed ballot of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated, and to compile an enhanced security ballot image record that is constituted by said enhanced security ballot image files,; and a memory for storing said enhanced security ballot image record that is constituted by said enhanced security ballot image files, that individually correspond respectively to the ballots of the plurality of ballots to be tabulated.