METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF VOTING PAPERS AND DEVICE FOR REALIZATION OF SAID METHOD

FIELD: equipment for automatic collection of information about vote results. ^ SUBSTANCE: method includes inserting vote papers into track and moving them along track while synchronously reading their full width images on both sides of sheet with recognition of voter marks and qualification of papers with concurrent marking of invalid papers, read image if transformed to digital code signals, appropriate for semi-tone presentation of image and also lighting level is automatically set, determined by white field of paper and corrections are introduced compensating unevenness of transfer of signals by objective and distortions, caused by blinks from parts of optical track and deviation of sensitivity of elements of reading photo-receiver, on basis of multiplication of signals of image of each element of read string of vote paper on coefficients, determined for each read element during scanning of white field. ^ EFFECT: higher trustworthiness of results due to improved reliability of recognition of marks put down by voters. ^ 3 cl, 2 dwg