Digital security election system with digitalized ballot, vote stamp and precision tallying devices, and method therefore

• US 20020087394A1
• Filed: 01/02/2002
• Published: 07/04/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Franklin Zhigang Zhang
• Original Assignee: Franklin Zhigang Zhang
• Inventors: Zhang, Franklin Zhigang
• Application Number:
  US10/040,145
• Publication Number:
  US 20020087394A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 13/00 Voting apparatus

Abstract

A method and system is provided to improve election with easy use, security, and accuracy. Voters use vote stamp to vote on ballot. The ballot with a vote stamp design not only provides voters very clear and easy use way to vote, but also the standardized vote stamp greatly improve the tally accuracy. The digital encrypted start code on the ballot provides both pre-vote validity check of the ballot and the validity check of the tally system. Computerized tally system comprises multiple tally units can tally the regular ballot accurately and efficiently, while the non-regular voted ballot, bad ballots, illegal ballots are sorted out for further process. The counted record on the ballot helps the system to identify the ballots, which are already counted. Graphic identification system comprises multiple graphic identification units, can process the non-regular voted ballots and find out the exact intend of the voters.

Claims

1. An election system comprises the tally system, graphic identification system, data center server, database, digital security identification system, digitalized ballot and vote stamp.

2. The tally system of the claim 1 comprises multiple tally units which can be linked together by LAN or internet.

3. The tally unit of the claim2 comprises barcode reader, computer system, distributing mechanism unit and after-count ballots processing units.

4. The barcode reader of the claim3 can scan the ballots and read the barcode message on the ballot.

5. The distributing mechanism unit of the claim3 can sort the ballots into different types of ballot collectors automatically according the checking output result from the computer system of the claim3.

6. The after-count ballots processing units of the claim 3 may comprises illegal vote processing unit, damage vote processing unit, re-count ballot processing unit, no-vote processing unit, multiple-vote processing unit and valid vote processing unit.

7. The graphic identification system of the claim1 comprises multi graphic identification units which can be linked together by LAN or internet.

8. The graphic identification unit of the claim7 comprises graphic input system and graphic identifying computer.

9. The graphic input system of the claim8 can scan the non-regular ballots into the graphic identifying computer which further analyzes and processes these ballots.

10. The data center server and database of the claim1 store the counting result achieved by the tally system and graphic identification system.

11. The digital security identification system of the claim1 can be linked to the data center server and database to provide local vote station and/or online and/or telephone pre-vote identification for the validity of the voter and the ballot.

12. The ballot of the claim1 which has digital encrypted security barcode messages can be counted efficiently, precisely by the tally unit of claim 3 and used easily, clearly by the voter with the self-adhesive vote stamp of the claim1.

14. A method of ballot graphic identification of claim 13, comprises

transferring un-regular ballots to the graphic identification system;

graphic identification system scanning every un-regular ballot completely;

identifying the scanned information by software means;

reporting the result of identification.

13. A method of ease and security election, comprises

pre-vote ballot and voter security identification;

voter voting by placing the vote stamp on to the ballot;

ballot tallying;

graphic identifying un-regular ballot if necessary.