JPH0743787B2 - Ticketing management system for voting system - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a ticketing management system for lottery tickets and the like, and more particularly to a ticketing management system for a voting system that requires the prevention of unauthorized use of unused tickets.

[Prior art]

Various voting tickets are easily targeted for forgery, and how to effectively prevent forgery is a serious problem. A conventional method for preventing forgery of voting tickets is, for example, as described in JP-A-52-33500, by performing hidden printing with colorless ink, fluorescent ink, or the like, genuine and forged voting tickets. I was dealing with counterfeiting by identifying it as a ticket.

In the anti-counterfeiting method according to the related art, since each voting ticket is not managed by the central system, if colorless ink or fluorescent ink can be obtained, there is a drawback that it can be easily forged. is there.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

An object of the present invention is to provide a method by which a person who illegally obtains an unused ticketing paper can easily and automatically find a forged ticket when determining whether a voting ticket is won or not, even if a forged ticket is manufactured. It is in.

[Means for Solving the Problem] The above-mentioned object is to provide a ticketing paper, a storage means for numbering and storing a serial number, an output means for printing required data including the serial number on the ticketing paper, and a serial number at the time of inquiry. In a voting system having a display means for displaying data including, when a ticket is issued, at least the corresponding next serial number is printed on the surface of the ticket to be issued next.

[Operation of the invention]

According to the method of the present invention, when issuing a lottery ticket or the like, a corresponding serial number assigned and stored by the central system is printed on the ticket surface to be issued next time. Therefore, both the serial number printed at the time of the previous ticket issuance and the voting data printed at the time of the ticket issuance are printed on the ticket issued next time.

Even if an unauthorized ticket such as a lottery ticket is illegally obtained and a counterfeit ticket is issued, both the serial number assigned and stored in the central system at the time of the previous ticket is issued and the voting data of the ticket stored in the central system are matched. Things are extremely difficult. Further, if the counterfeit ticket is submitted to the winning inquiry, the serial number data is printed together with the voting data printed on the face of the ticket to the central system to determine whether it matches the voting data and serial number data stored in the central system. Can be easily determined. Therefore, the detection of the forged ticket can be performed very easily.

Further, even when a trouble occurs due to printing failure when printing a lottery ticket or the like, reissuance processing of the lottery ticket or the like becomes easy.
In other words, since the serial number that was printed out when the ticket was output the previous time is printed on the relevant ticket surface, when requesting reissue at the time of failure recovery, enter this serial number printed on the ticket surface from the terminal side. This is because the current situation can be easily confirmed by notifying the central system.

[Explanation of Examples]

An embodiment of a ticketing management system according to the present invention will be disclosed below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a print format of a lottery ticket which is a target of the present invention, in which the lottery ticket 1 and the subsequent lottery ticket 2 are continuous. At least 3 serial numbers for each lottery ticket
18, the drawing number 4, the identification code 5, and the identification code (machine reading unit) 6 are printed.

FIG. 2 discloses the configuration of a terminal system when the present invention is implemented, and includes an input unit 8, a display unit 9, and a ticket issuing unit 1.
0, a control unit 11, a terminal device 7 including a central system connection unit 12, and a central system 13 including a data processing device 14 and a data storage device 15.

FIG. 3 shows a data storage format in the data storage device 15, which is composed of at least a sign portion 16, an identification code 19, a drawing number 20, a serial number 21, and a prize amount 17.

First, in the case of voting according to a request from a voter, if a lottery number for which an application has been made is entered from the input unit of the terminal device 7, the entered lottery number data will be stored in the central system connection unit under the control of the control unit 11. Sent via 12 to the central system 13. In the central system 13, the data processing device 14 adds an identification code and a serial number to the lottery number data transmitted from the terminal device 7, and the data storage device 15 has the identification number 19, the lottery number 20, in the format shown in FIG. Record the serial number 21.

After that, in the central system 13, the lottery ticket 1 shown in FIG.
In order to issue a lottery ticket, at least the lottery number 4, the identification code 5, and the identification code (mechanical reading section) 6 are edited as data to be printed on the lottery ticket 1, and the data is printed on the lottery ticket 2 which is the ticket issued next time. Each data of the serial number 18 is edited, and when the editing is completed, it is transmitted to the terminal device 7.

In the terminal device 7, the ticket issuing unit 10 issues the lottery ticket shown in FIG. 1, prints at least the lottery number 4, the identification code 5, and the identification code (mechanical reading unit) 6 on the lottery ticket 1, and the lottery ticket 2 The serial number 18 is printed on. The serial number 3 of the lottery ticket 1 is printed when the lottery ticket issued before the lottery ticket 1 is issued. Also, serial number 3 and serial number 18
Is a serial number and is managed and added by the data processing device 14 of the central system 13. If the lottery ticket 1 is the first lottery ticket paper, when the opening operation is sent from the terminal device 7 to the central system 13 by the opening operation after the paper is set in the terminal device 7,
The central system 13 only edits the data, and the terminal device 7
Send to. In the terminal device 7, the ticket issuing unit 10 prints the serial number 3 of the lottery ticket 1.

Since the serial number is always printed on each lottery ticket by the above processing, the lottery ticket with no serial number printed can be reliably determined as a counterfeit ticket. Even if a forged serial number is added and printed at the time of forgery of a lottery ticket, the serial number printed on the lottery ticket is stored in the file of the data storage device 15 of the central system 13 as the serial number 21 shown in FIG. Therefore, when the lottery ticket is inquired, the result of the inquiry is displayed on the display unit 9 of the terminal device 7 and the serial number is displayed, and the operator confirms that the serial number printed on the lottery ticket and the serial number displayed on the display unit 9 are the same. By doing so, the counterfeit ticket can be checked immediately.

Further, if a trouble occurs when issuing the lottery ticket, the serial number printed on the troubled lottery ticket is input at the time of the operation of notifying the central system of the fault recovery from the terminal device 7 and transmitted to the central system 13. The central system 13 can specify the lottery ticket in which the failure has occurred even when a plurality of tickets are issued in the ticket issuing unit 10 of the terminal device 7. Further, even when a plurality of tickets are issued, it is not necessary to reissue the first ticket, and it is possible to reissue the lottery ticket after the failure.

〔The invention's effect〕

According to the ticket issuing management method of the present invention, when issuing a lottery ticket or the like in the voting system, the corresponding next serial number assigned by the central system can be printed on the lottery ticket face to be issued next time. A forged ticket using a used ticket can be easily excluded. Even if a counterfeit ticket is mixed at the time of inquiry, it can be easily identified by checking the match between the data including the serial number displayed at the time of inquiry and the data including the serial number printed on the ticket face. . Therefore, it is possible to prevent the unauthorized use of the unused ticket-issuing paper and to make a backup when a failure occurs.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a lottery ticket issued by voting. FIG. 2 shows the configuration of a terminal system when implementing the present invention. FIG. 3 shows a recording format in the data storage device. Correspondence of reference symbols in the figure is as follows. 1: lottery ticket, 2: lottery ticket 3: serial number, 4: lottery number 5: identification code 6: identification code (machine reading section) 7: terminal device, 8: input section 9: display section, 10: ticket issuing section 11: Control part 12: Central system connection part 13: Central system, 14: Data processing device 15: Data storage device 16: Sign part, 17: Prize amount 18: Serial number, 19: Identification number 20: Lot number, 21: Serial number

Front page continuation (72) Inventor Tsuneji Miyahara 1 Ikegami Ichigami, Haruoka-cho, Owariasahi-shi, Aichi Hitachi Ltd. Asahi Factory (72) Inventor Shigeo Shimura 1 Ikegami, Haruoka-cho, Owariasahi-shi, Aichi Hitachi Ltd. Asahi Factory (72) Inventor Akio Otani 1 Ikegami, Haruoka-cho, Owari-Asahi-shi, Aichi Hitachi Ltd. Asahi Factory (56) Reference JP-A-63-204389 (JP, A) JP-A-59-100980 ( JP, A)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A ticket-issuing paper, a storage means for numbering and storing a serial number, an output means for printing required data including the serial number on the ticket-issuing paper, and a display for displaying data including the serial number at the time of inquiry. And a voting system having means,
When issuing a ticket, a ticketing management method characterized in that the next serial number corresponding to at least the next ticket surface is printed each time.