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Techniques for telephony-based voting

  • US 8,320,537 B1
  • Filed: 03/12/2009
  • Issued: 11/27/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2005
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A localized point of presence for implementing a network-based voting system, comprising:

  • an interface to a local area of a public switched telephone network for receiving voting calls routed from call originating switches within the local area, the voting calls being routed to the point of presence, selected from a plurality of points of presence based on a caller identifier;

    means for tallying ballots based on the voting calls from callers;

    an interface to a data network for periodically transmitting the tallied ballots from the point of presence to a centralized ballot collection site.

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