Ballot Image Test Data: Lehigh Class Surveys


Obtaining access to hand-marked ballots created by voters for use in real elections appears to be problematic due to various legal constraints. As part of our work on the PERFECT project, we are conducting various data collection activities that will give us access to similar sorts of markings created in less restrictive contexts. We plan to make these data freely available as a service to the research community.

The survey forms below were produced by students enrolled in Dan Lopresti's Spring 2008 Lehigh course "Intelligent Machine: The Computer in Popular Culture." All forms were filled out by hand and were scanned at a resolution of 300 dpi using a Ricoh Aficio digital photocopier. As of now, they are presented without ground-truth (i.e., human interpretation of the markings), but we intend to add this information soon.

Button Informed Consent Form

Button Surveys for "2001: A Space Odyessy"
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Button Surveys for "AI: Artificial Intelligence"
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Button Surveys for "Bedwin Hacker"
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Button Surveys for "Colossus: The Forbin Project"
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Button Surveys for "Desk Set"
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Button Surveys for "I, Robot"
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Button Surveys for "Metropolis"
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Button Surveys for "Sneakers"
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Button Surveys for "Snow Crash"
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Button Surveys for "The Matrix"
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Button Surveys for "The Net"
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Button Surveys for "War Games"
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PERFECT is an acronym that stands for "Paper and Electronic Records for Elections: Cultivating Trust." PERFECT is a multidisciplinary research effort aimed at studying the reliable processing of paper ballots and other hardcopy election records. Participating institutions include Lehigh University, Boise State University, Muhlenberg College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Click here to return to the PERFECT homepage.
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 PERFECT is funded in part by the National Science Foundation under award numbers NSF-0716368, NSF-0716393, NSF-0716647, NSF-0716543. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website are the investigators' and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.