1. A PRESENTATION FROM JOINT CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER, MANIPUR ON FINDING OF MULTIPLE VOTING USING GOOGLES PICASA 3 APPLICATION DURING THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED 10 TH GENERAL ELECTION, 2012

2. REQUIREMENTS Install Google’s Picasa Software Install Google’s Picasa Software Remove all Photographs (JPEG, GIF, BMP) from ‘desktop’ and ‘my picture’ folder. Remove all Photographs (JPEG, GIF, BMP) from ‘desktop’ and ‘my picture’ folder. Polling Station wise Poll Day Photographs of electors. Polling Station wise Poll Day Photographs of electors. Polling Station wise existing Electoral Roll Photographs extracted from the elector database. Polling Station wise existing Electoral Roll Photographs extracted from the elector database. Photo Comparison Report Maker Application (PCRM) Photo Comparison Report Maker Application (PCRM)

3. HOW TO USE PICASA ?

4. Run Picasa Software and set view to view tree to see all the image names as follows :

5. Set the required image file extensions to be processed from the Tool Option menu as follows :

6. Add photographs to Picasa from folders where the photographs of Poll Day and Electoral Roll Images are kept

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8. Processing/Scanning of similar faces while uploading the image files of Poll Day to Picasa software

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10. After importing and scanning of the images the software grouped similar faces from the images as “Unnamed people” with different number of groups and faces

11. Give a name to the ‘Add a name’ box of any image e.g. F01, F02, F03……..Fn for females and M01, M02, M03…..Mn for males and press enter to start to find out similar faces of that particular image. Let us give a female image name as F15

12. The result of F15

13. Result of finding with elector data AC NO., Part NO., SL.NO. in the current Electoral Roll

14. Select person and click export button

15. Browse the Export Location and click ‘Export’

16. The result of every person of a Polling Station will be saved as below

17. A sample report generated by the PCRM application

18. A sample report with detailed data in electoral Roll

19. Thank You