17. The apparatus according to claim 16, further comprising operation specifying means for specifying a re-input operation of the candidate before the confirming operation.
16. An election terminal apparatus having a display input unit into which a display unit and a coordinate input unit are integrated, comprising: character recognizing means for recognizing candidate character string data input by handwriting; a candidate-data database storing candidate data and voting confirmation data corresponding to the candidate data; first display control means for displaying, in the display input unit, a candidate data input screen constituted by a handwriting-voting-input area into which the candidate data is handwritten, and a selective-voting input area for selecting a voting-target candidate from a candidate list; voting-input mode determining means for determining a selection of one of the handwriting-voting-input area or the selective-voting input area on the candidate data input screen to thereby determine a voting input mode; first output means for recognizing character data handwriting-inputted by the coordinate input unit and for outputting the recognized character data as the candidate data when the voting-input mode determining means determines a handwriting-voting-input mode; second output means for outputting candidate data corresponding to the coordinate data input by the coordinate input unit when the voting-input mode determining means determines a selective voting input mode; confirmation data reading means for reading, from the candidate-data database, confirmation data corresponding to the candidate data output from the first or second output means; second display control means for displaying a voting confirmation screen constituted by a confirmation data display area for displaying confirmation data obtained by the confirmation reading means, and a confirmation area for selectively specifying that the candidate data based on the displayed confirmation data is the candidate to be voted for; and confirming means for confirming the candidate data by specifying the confirmation area on the voting confirmation screen by the coordinate input unit.