I remember this competition. The issue is the only difference between ballots is a single dot.
Many of which will be filled out exactly the same way and all ballots are the same page of material.
Not trying to doomer, I thought this over though last week and the similarities here would really fuck with these kinds of algorithms which examine letters and sentences in unique documents.
There's no point of fully putting together the ballots, other than seeing who they voted for. There's no identifying marks on ballots. You'd want to put together the envelopes with voter's information
That’s assuming every shred contained only letters and spaces but no sliced letters. The letters being sliced up actually makes it worlds easier for the algorithm to put things back together. It literally turns it into puzzle pieces that can only go in one place. Even if these were duplicates of one another, if the individual ballots were shredded at even a fraction of a millimeter difference in angle or alignment, the puzzle pieces only fit properly to each individual puzzle, or ballot.
Ehhhhhh.
I remember this competition. The issue is the only difference between ballots is a single dot.
Many of which will be filled out exactly the same way and all ballots are the same page of material.
Not trying to doomer, I thought this over though last week and the similarities here would really fuck with these kinds of algorithms which examine letters and sentences in unique documents.
I thought the same thing but with 9 years of improvement I'm hoping the tech is ready for the big show
There's no point of fully putting together the ballots, other than seeing who they voted for. There's no identifying marks on ballots. You'd want to put together the envelopes with voter's information
That’s assuming every shred contained only letters and spaces but no sliced letters. The letters being sliced up actually makes it worlds easier for the algorithm to put things back together. It literally turns it into puzzle pieces that can only go in one place. Even if these were duplicates of one another, if the individual ballots were shredded at even a fraction of a millimeter difference in angle or alignment, the puzzle pieces only fit properly to each individual puzzle, or ballot.