Case Study: Electionz.com achieves accelerated, accurate, and scalable vote processing with ABBYY Digital Intelligence Platform

Electionz.com deploys ABBYY Digital Intelligence Platform to accelerate voting outcomes for New Zealand’s 2019 Local Council Elections

Electionz.com, New Zealand’s leading election services provider, faced a highly time‑sensitive challenge for the 2019 Local Council Elections: a cumbersome data‑capture process that created bottlenecks, the need to accurately read double‑sided A3 ballots and enforce business rules and double verification, integration with an existing Oracle Election Management System, scalable architecture to handle tens of thousands of mailed ballots per day, and on‑site support in a secure, offline processing environment.

Deploying the ABBYY Intelligent Document Processing platform integrated with the existing EMS automated ballot capture and QA workflows, applied business rules and double‑verification, and provided on‑site support for secure processing. The solution processed 676,000 voting papers in three weeks and handled 94,000 voter applications (about 400,000 papers) in one day, drastically reducing overtime, increasing accuracy and throughput, enabling Electionz.com to take on more clients and materially improving ROI.

Electionz.com

Steve Kilpatrick

Managing Director