Dynamic Ballots for Voting
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1. A voting system for facilitating live interactive voting, comprising:
- a database to store one or more ballots, at least one ballot having a question with at least one listed candidate and a write-in option;
a server to serve the ballots over a network to users;
a database to store registered voters and ballot information and to record which voters have voted and the voting results;
a computer program that, immediately after a write-in candidate has been submitted as a vote on a question in a ballot, updates that ballot so that the new ballot contains the written-in candidate as another listed candidate for that question.
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Abstract
A system and method for voting is disclosed. The system and method allows voters to vote for write-in candidates, and then updates the ballot so that the written-in candidates appear as listed candidates alongside the other listed candidates on the ballot. The disclosed system and method reduces the inherent disadvantage of write-in candidates in current voting systems and methods.
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1. A voting system for facilitating live interactive voting, comprising:
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a database to store one or more ballots, at least one ballot having a question with at least one listed candidate and a write-in option; a server to serve the ballots over a network to users; a database to store registered voters and ballot information and to record which voters have voted and the voting results; a computer program that, immediately after a write-in candidate has been submitted as a vote on a question in a ballot, updates that ballot so that the new ballot contains the written-in candidate as another listed candidate for that question. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A voting system for facilitating live interactive voting, comprising:
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a database to store one or more ballots, at least one ballot having a question with at least one listed candidate, a maximum number of allowed listed candidates, and a write-in option; a server to serve the ballots over a network to users; a database to store registered voters and ballot information and to record which voters have voted and the voting results; a computer program that, immediately after write-in candidate has been submitted as a vote for a question on a ballot, if the maximum number of allowed listed candidates for that question has not yet been reached, updates the ballot so that the new ballot contains the written-in candidate as another listed candidate for that question. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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- 15. A method of voting with write-in option, wherein once a write-in candidate has been submitted, that candidate appears alongside previously listed candidates in future ballots.
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