Patent ID: 8899480

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a voter-generated physical ballot including a human-readable representation of choices of a voter and a machine-readable indicia that encodes an indication of the choices of the voter, the machine-readable indicia further comprising: a ballot design parameter identifying a file used to remake the voter-generated physical ballot, the file containing formatting information for a remade ballot, a ballot type parameter defining one or more symbols for representing a marked ballot, and a remake parameter representing whether to generate the remade ballot; scanning the machine-readable indicia of the voter-generated physical ballot; decoding the scanned machine-readable indicia to determine the choices of the voter; flagging the voter-generated physical ballot for manual processing if the scanned machine-readable indicia cannot be decoded; comparing the human-readable representation of the choices of the voter to the decoded choices of the voter to determine a discrepancy; determining whether to generate the remade ballot based on the comparing and the remake parameter; generating the remade ballot based on the determining, the remade ballot formatted based on the ballot design parameter and the ballot type parameter; and printing the remade ballot, the remade ballot including indications of the choices of the voter and being readable by a ballot scanner.