Papertrail

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About

Papertrail is a Ballot Counting Software. It helps scanning and counting regular paper ballots as known from common election situations. It is Open Source Software, licensed via the GPLv3, to make the election process as dependable as possible, but speeding up the manual counting process a lot. Further, a free Operating System (e.g. Debian GNU/Linux) is highly recommended.

Papertrail currently has the following features:

In the simplest case, the user just needs to click a GUI button to scan and evaluate a ballot stack in an election.

Download

This software is available in the following forms:

After downloading the source tarball, just unpack it, build (compile) the executable and run it:

tar xf papertrail-X.Y.tar.gz
cd papertrail-X.Y
make
make install

pt-gui

Screenshot

Documentation

Manual (German) in different formats:

License

This program is Free Software and is covered by the GPL (GNU General Public License, Version 3).

Contact

Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>