COMPUTERIZED VOTING SYSTEM

• US 20060081706A1
• Filed: 11/02/2005
• Published: 04/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daniel William, Mr Onischuk
• Original Assignee: Daniel William, Mr Onischuk
• Inventors: ONISCHUK, DANIEL WILLIAM
• Application Number:
  US11/163,884
• Publication Number:
  US 20060081706A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/386
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 13/00 Voting apparatus

Abstract

Any business, individuals, groups of people, or government that is Officially facilitating the voting process use sources of computer data and other data to create lists of every eligible Voter. The List of Eligible Voters contains the name and physical mailing address for each Voter. Afer registration, each elegible voter receives a MASTER Ballot which has two parts—a PRIMARY Ballot and at least one RECEIPT Ballot. For each MASTER Ballot, both the PRIMARY Ballot and RECEIPT Ballot(s) share an identical, unique group of symbols as a correlating identifier. Optionally, the Ballot Identifier (Ballot RSID) is randomly generated to be unique and rare, so as to make any ballot difficult to counterfeit. To maintain privacy, before voting, any number of Voters exchange ballots with other Voters within their voting region. Prior to the Ballot exchange, validation using a Validation RSID is done by telephone, fax or Internet. Completed PRIMARY Ballots are mailed or otherwise delivered via Postal Mail, Internet, Telephone, Fax or Email to Official host on or before the due date & time for verification, recording, tallying and publication. By referring to any Receipt Ballot having the same the unique RSID as the Primary Ballot, any Voter can use a telephone or a computer connected to the Internet to enquire, verify or report errors as to their Ballot processing, records of ballot vote selections, or published tallies of ballot votes or other information published by Voting Session Officials. By publishing a list of all the Ballot Voting RSID'"'"'s after Voting is completed, anyone with access to the Ballot Voting RSID list is able to verify each Ballot cast, the Voter selections on each Ballot cast, as well as the tally for each Ballot Selection option, which may optionally be supported by hand delivered or mail-in paper ballots which are electronically scanned for verification of electronic votes; thus providing a transparent, verifiable audit trail to assure the completeness, accuracy and validity of the Voting Session.

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