Methods for the management and protection of electoral processes, which are associated with an electronic voting terminal, and operative module used
First Claim
1. A method for the management and protection of electoral processes associated with an electronic voting terminal, and said voting terminal comprising at least one interface for presenting the voting options to be selected, and means for carrying out a selection step in which a voter selects one or more voting options, after which step one or more selected voting options is/are provided to a local or external processing module, characterised in that after said selection step, it comprises the following steps implemented by means of a verification module associated with said voting terminal:
- a) receiving digital data relating to said one or more selected voting option/options;
b) providing an interface in which the voter can verify said one or more previously selected voting option/options;
c) providing confirmation means; and
d) in the event that said one or more voting options have been accepted by said voter generating by means of said confirmation means a digital record to protect the integrity of said digital data.
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Abstract
The inventive method is characterised in that, following a voting option selection step (201), a verification module (102), which is associated with a voting terminal (101), is used to perform the following steps: reception (202) of digital data relating to the voting options selected by a voter (103) at the voting terminal (101); verification (203) of the options selected by the voter (103), which are in some way encoded in the data received during the preceding step; confirmation (204) by the voter (103) of the voting options presented during the previous step; and, upon acceptance of said voting options by the voter (103), generation of a digital record to protect the integrity of the digital data received during the above-mentioned data-reception step.
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1. A method for the management and protection of electoral processes associated with an electronic voting terminal, and said voting terminal comprising at least one interface for presenting the voting options to be selected, and means for carrying out a selection step in which a voter selects one or more voting options, after which step one or more selected voting options is/are provided to a local or external processing module, characterised in that after said selection step, it comprises the following steps implemented by means of a verification module associated with said voting terminal:
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a) receiving digital data relating to said one or more selected voting option/options; b) providing an interface in which the voter can verify said one or more previously selected voting option/options; c) providing confirmation means; and d) in the event that said one or more voting options have been accepted by said voter generating by means of said confirmation means a digital record to protect the integrity of said digital data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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30. A verification module associated with an electronic voting terminal, said voting terminal comprising at least one interface for presenting the voting options to be selected and means with which a voter interacts to carry out a selection step for selecting one or more voting options, after which one or more selected voting options are provided to a local or remote processing site, said verification module comprising:
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a) an input unit allowing the interaction with said voting terminal to receive digital data relating to the voting option/options selected at said voting terminal; b) an interface for the voter to verify said previously selected voting options; c) confirmation means; and d) a processing unit for generating a digital record to protect the integrity of all the digital data received in section a) and which have been confirmed by means c). - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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