1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a computer terminal apparatus used for voting at an election, and an electronic system for voting at an election and totaling the votes cast.
2. Description of the Related Art
Conventionally, at presidential elections, elections of Diet members, and the like, voters go to polling stations, where the voters write candidate names on ballot papers and cast the ballot papers into ballot boxes. Thereafter, vote counting and totaling of election returns are manually performed.
As described above, in the conventional voting at elections, voting operations, totaling operations, and the like are not automated much. Therefore, it takes much time to perform voting and totaling operations. In addition, vote totaling errors often occur.