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The purpose of ballot on demand (BoD) technology is to create an appropriate ballot for a voter at the time when they request it. The most typical scenario for this case is blank-ballot creation. This is typically encountered as an offline capability to create, for example, blank paper ballots via ballot printing during in-person voting at a polling place. Blank-ballot creation may take place at locations other the polling place such as when a voter prints their own paper ballot during absentee voting at home. Alternatively, BoD may be used after a voter selects their choices in order to create a voted ballot. This may often be seen in cases where ballot marking and ballot creation functions are co-located, such as in modern ballot marking devices which enable voters to mark and subsequently printvoted paper ballots. The voted ballot creation scenario may also have alternative contexts, such as an equivalent ballot creation scenario for absentee voters marking and printing paper ballots using their personal device(s). In addition to the ability to create (generate) paper/printed ballots in these and related contexts, one may need to create blank or voted ballots in one or more alternative ballot representations, be they in the form of QRCodes, text-based ballot and choice listings, or others. In this role, a BoD device may support the ability to create multiple ballot representations and/or the ability to convert among multiple allowed ballot representations.
Blank ballot creation
Typical-offline: ballot printing, paper ballots, at polling place
Absentee: ballot printing, paper ballots, at home
Alternative-ballot-representations, paper: ballot printing QR Codes
Alternative-ballot media: electronic ballot generation
Voted ballot creation
Typical-offline: ballot creation and marking, paper ballots, at polling place
Absentee: ballot creation and marking, paper ballots, at home
Alternative-ballot-representations, paper: ballot printing QR Codes
Multiple equivalent ballot representations: e.g., QRCoded ballot and human-readable ballot content (list of choices)
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