Electionz.com Deploys ABBYY Digital Intelligence Platform to Accelerate Voting Outcomes for New Zealand's 2019 Local Council Elections
Electionz.com's existing data capture technology was cumbersome and created processing bottlenecks in a highly time-sensitive election context, requiring a scalable solution that could integrate with their Oracle-based Election Management System, handle double verification on double-sided ballot pages, and operate in a secure environment with no network connectivity.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Voter ballots arrive by mail
Voter ballots are received by mail each day, sometimes in the tens of thousands.
Tools used
ABBYY Digital Intelligence PlatformABBYY Intelligent Document Processing platformABBYY Content Intelligence
Outcome
ABBYY's platform processed 676,000 voting papers within a three-week period and 94,000 voter applications (approximately 400,000 papers) in a single day, greatly reducing staff overtime and enabling Electionz.com to accommodate more volume and take on more clients.
What failed first
The previous data capture technology was cumbersome and created queue blockages that slowed the time-sensitive ballot processing workflow.
Results
Time saved676,000
Volume94,000
Running sinceNew Zealand's 2019 Local Council Elections