Batch-fed scanner

Definition

• An electronic voting device that: • accepts stacks of hand-marked or BMD-produced paper ballots and automatically processes them until the stack is empty; • is usually used at an election jurisdiction’s central location; • is mostly commonly used to process absentee ballots; • usually has input and output hoppers for ballots; • scans a ballot and rejects it if either unreadable or un-processable; • detects, interprets, and validates contest selections; • detects and sorts (either digitally or physically) ballots that are unreadable or unprocessable, or • that contain undeterminable selections, marking exceptions, or write-ins; and • tabulates and reports contest results as required.