Note: Claims are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
CLAIMS of THIS INVENTION - What is claimed is:
[Claim 1] a Computerized Voting System comprising of the methods and system of
Voter
Registration and for Voter Ballot Casting , whereby Voting Session Officials,
Official Agents and
Official Devices hereafter referred to individually or collectively as
Officials, are actively engaging
in conducting a plurality of communications and a plurality of Document
exchanges with a
plurality of Eligible Voters, Proxy Voters and Potential Voters hereafter
referred to individually or
collectively as Voters for the purposes of Registration and Voting by casting
Ballots in one or a
plurality of Voting Sessions, by delivering at least one and a plurality of
Voting Session Documents
and Containers to said Voters, and receiving said Voting Session Documents
from: a plurality of
Voters, a plurality of potential Voters, and a plurality of Eligible Voters by
any combination of zero,
one or a plurality of each delivery methods of:
(i) In-Person or designated Proxy persons physically attending a Poll
Station to
Vote;
(ii) employing postal mail or courier delivery services,
(iii) employing the Internet for a plurality of: Electronic Mail messages,
electronic data of
Internet web-pages, forms, data, audio, video, images, text, symbols, alpha-
numeric data
transmissions and receptions;
(iv) Telephone - voice or touch-tone signals, audio and video messaging,
texting messages,
electronic mail Facsimile or personal audio-video transmissions and
receptions;
(v) personal data devices: electronic data tablets, cellular, telephones,
personal computers;
(vi) Internet and Telephone Document facsimile transmissions and receptions;
(vii) Interactive Television , secure interactive channel broadcasts,
interactive menus and
private channel signals, electronic mail, audio and video messaging, texting
messages, personal
audio-video transmissions and receptions;
(viii) in-person video, personal audio recordings, records transmissions and
receptions;
(ix) connecting to and employing at least one public or private communications
networks
and zero, one or a plurality of secure private transmission networks;
whereby said Computerized Voting System comprises of:
(A) a plurality of electronic voting systems, operating independently or
interconnected
via zero, one or a plurality of- networks, whereby each voting system is
comprised of at least: one
data processing computer running data processing software, zero, one or a
plurality of telephone
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communication devices, zero, one or a plurality of computers running software
programs to process
telephone voice audio and facsimile transmissions, zero, one or a plurality of
Internet
communication systems, zero, one or a plurality of Internet communication
devices, zero, one or a
plurality of Internet webserver computers, zero, one or a plurality of
Internet client computers, zero,
one or a plurality of Internet electronic mail server computers, at least one
computer security server
controlling voting system security, zero, one or a plurality of optical
Document scanners, any
number of optical barcode readers, any number of camera devices, zero, one or
a plurality of
magnetic ink printed Document processing devices, zero, one or a plurality of
computer printers,
zero, one or a plurality of computer Compact Disc Read Only Media and -
Digital Video Data
reader and writer devices, zero, one or a plurality of electro-magnetic memory
devices, zero, one or
a plurality of security authentication devices, zero, one or a plurality of
electronic voting terminals,
zero, one or a plurality of paper Document voting processing devices, zero,
one or a plurality of
interactive television systems devices, zero, one or a plurality of computer
Uninterruptable Power
Supplies, zero, one or a plurality of ancillary electronic devices, zero, one
or a plurality of physical
Document sorting, counting, processing and handling devices, and zero, one or
a plurality of any
other types of electronic devices, electro-magnetic devices, electro-optical
devices or electro-
mechanical devices that shall also include any number of: data acquisition
devices, electronic,
electromagnetic, optical or biological or other computing or analytical
devices, communication
networks, electronic data transmissions, any other man-made devices, hereafter
referred to
individually and collectively as Vote Processing Devices as well as at least
one related computer
software programs or algorithms - which are used individually or in any
combination, with zero, one
or a plurality of: Documents, forms, Ballots, Containers, data elements, data
sets, data or physical
Objects, data transmission, security elements;
(B) For a plurality of voting sessions, a secure electronic voting method
whereby at least
one Voting Session Official is using a Computerized Voting System comprising
of at least one
computer executing a plurality of computer programs of instructions directing
the computerized
voting system and other related devices to be acting as a polling station for
Voter Registrations and,i
for Voter Ballot casting, during preset periods of time and ranges of dates,
said Computerized
Voting System is used by Officials for:
(i) researching Voters designing Documents: Voter Registration, Voter Ballots,
Voter
Language and communication preferences, error processing processing comprising
of: error
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detection, error reporting, error identification, error specification, error
localization, error position
locating, error marking, error correction, error data recovery, false error
detection rejection), in any
POEM format: Physical, Optical, Electronic, electro-Magnetic, Chemical.
Structural;
(ii) generating Documents, error correcting Documents, marking each Document
with at
least one unique Identifier and zero, one or a plurality of correlated
barcodes and a correlated
barcode values for at least one unique Document Identifier;
(iii) marking zero, one or a plurality of Document Containers with zero, one
or a plurality of
correlated voting session data, Document type information, barcodes;
(iv) distributing each of a plurality of said Documents to Voters physically,
optically, or
electronically and also tracking each of said Documents, correlated Document
Containers and
contents thereof;
(v) receiving a plurality of Voter return Document Containers and zero, one or
a plurality of
Documents therein - also recording the date, time and location received at,
further verifying within
data and time limits for accepting to processing or otherwise rejecting as
outside of time constraints;
(vi) upon accepting, scanning (physically, optically, electronically
electromagnetically) then
generating a complete accurate image of said received Document Containers and
content
Documents therein and further correlating associated Container security and
transmission data;
(vii) creating an optical replica of the received Voter Container, Container
Documents
therein and also for any related data fields and markings thereto so as to be
rendered as an exact
duplicate copy for human optical visual processing and optical-electronic data
processing;
(viii) selecting and applying zero, one or a plurality of Document reading
Templates for each
Container and-for each type of Document: Voter Registration, Proxy
Registration, Language
Selection, Ballots, Voter Complaint, Official Investigation, Official
Amendment, Document
Validation, Document Authentication, Document Certification;
(ix) extracting, recording, storing relevant Document data and Voter data
acquired from each
of a plurality of-Voter Registration data, Voter Ballot choices, Voter request
data, Voter
Identification Documents;
(x) for a plurality of Voters, Documents and Containers: evaluating aforesaid
Documents,
Containers, Official data and Voter data and related markings, then accepting
or rejecting a plurality
of Voter Documents (Voter Registrations, Voter Language selection forms, Voter
Ballots, Voter
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request forms (Ballot replacement, Ballot error report), Voter Identification
Documents ) or
Containers or Voter markings thereon said Documents and Containers;
(xi) actively storing a plurality of Voter and Official information, Document
designs,
physical Documents, digital Documents and related data, markings and
attachments;
(xii) at least one computer device acting as a tally site device for Ballots;
(xiii) at least one computer device acting as a publication site for the tally
and other results;
(xiv) said polling station, tally site and publication site being grouped
together in a same
computer, or, distributed among a plurality of computers, and may be located
at a virtual or physical
polling station, and further may be connected via at least one computer
communications network to
a plurality of other computers at a plurality of virtual and physical polling
station locations by
employing secure cryptography communications methods and protocols so as to
guarantee Voting
Session privacy, security and data integrity requirements of an electoral
process throughout the
duration of the method and the electoral process, whereby said method of
secure communications
comprising of these steps:
(a) according to voting session rules for secret sharing of cryptographic keys
and protocols,
providing an Electoral Board and Officials operating said tally site with at
least one pair of
symmetric keys and at least one pair of asymmetric keys, allowing access to at
least one private
decryption key of each key pair or a private secret component of either or
both said pairs of keys
correlated encryption and decryption algorithms, further access to at least
one digital signature
encoding-decoding algorithm and software program, and to a plurality of:
Ballot-ID RSIDs
(Random Symbolic Identifiers) , correlated Voting Ballot RSIDs, correlated
Ballot PassCodes,
correlated Ballot Validation RSIDs, Voter Registration Identifiers, Proxy
Voter Registration
Identifiers, Voter-Proxy Language Selection Identifiers, and correlated data
sets of said Voter
Registrations, Proxy Voter Registrations, Voter-Proxy Language Selections -
that are provided only
to a number of tally site Officials and tally site Official computing devices
as determined by a
quorum of the members of said electoral board and Officials;
(b) for each polling station and related Official sites:
(i) initializing and starting security systems, communications systems,
research systems,
Document data acquisition, analytical, data processing, error handling
systems, reporting and
publishing systems ;
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(ii) further providing said polling station with at least one pair of Official
Polling Station
asymmetric and symmetric electronic data encryption-decryption key pairs
comprised of published,
accessible public key and a securely stored Official private key;
(iii) starting researching, creating, generating, delivering, accepting,
Document processing,
error and forgery processing, reporting and publishing of a plurality of Voter
Registrations, Ballots,
Voters Document return Containers, digital Documents, digital Containers, and
zero, one or a
plurality of other Voter and Official Documents at each polling station
(virtual, physical);
(iv) correlating aforesaid processing relative to the local preset dates and
times allowable for
the voting session and further to any adjustments made for local date and
time, daylight savings
time, and as may further be allowable by any Official exceptions granted
thereof, ,
(v) providing each Certified Eligible Voter or their Proxy with at least one
Ballot, and zero,
one or a plurality of Ballot Return Containers, zero, one or a plurality of
correlated Ballot
PassCodes for each Ballot and for a plurality of Ballots, and zero, one or a
plurality of correlated
unique Container Identifiers and PassCodes for each Ballot Return Container
and for a plurality of
Ballot Return Containers;
(vi) providing each Voter Certified Eligible Voter or their Proxy with at
least one pair of
Official Polling Station asymmetric and symmetric electronic data encryption-
decryption key pairs
comprised of securely stored Voter private key and an Official use private
key;
(vii) creating a plurality of organizational groups each comprising of: zero,
one or a plurality
of sub-groups and correlated attributes thereof for organizing a plurality of:
data, RSIDs,
processes, transactions, as well as for at least one Documents, Ballots, Voter
Registrations, Proxy
Registrations, Language selection forms, Containers, data encryption key
pairs, encrypted data,
encrypted Ballots, encrypted Voter Registrations Events, errors,
communications, images, tallies,
reports, publications, WebPages, Official records, Voter data, security
elements, and further
employing computer programs for sorting, correlating and organizing data into
aforesaid groups and
sub-groups;
(viii) initializing zero, one or a plurality of computers running artificial
intelligence
programs performing distributed processing and optimization of task
prioritization and workload
balancing among a plurality of vote processing devices, and further providing
distributed processing
and optimization for zero, one or a plurality of tasks and processes: data
processing data acquisition,
Document scanning and imaging, Template data extraction, Document image
rendering, voting and
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Registration device processing, communications, security, data organization,
data storage, data
retrieval, data processing, key encryption, key decryption, RSID generation,
RSID searching,
session Identifier generation, Receipt generation, selection encoding, data
decoding, message
encryption, and for any other tasks, processes or any steps and methods of the
invention, and further
prioritizing said allocation of computing and devices resources;
(c) (i) each potential Voter for a voting region, business or group is
researched and contacted
to register to vote by completing Voter Registration and Language forms also
submitting zero, one
or a plurality of required Documents; each Voter and is either rejected or,
accepted and then added
to the Certified Eligible Voters list ; further step of zero, one or a
plurality of Voters notifying
Officials to assign zero, one or a plurality of Proxy Voters to cast a vote on
behalf of the Voter by
providing a Proxy consent form with Proxy personal contact information;
Officials recording zero,
one or a plurality of Proxy Voters contact information and further correlating
said Proxy Voters to
the originating Voter record in the Certified Eligible Voters list;
(d) (1) a plurality of Voters and plurality of Proxy Voters casting a vote
physically or
electronically or optically or electromagnetically through a set of computer
software programs
acting as a Voter agent at a virtual site or a physical site and using at
least one vote casting platform,
the vote casting step comprising sub-steps of: Officials creating a plurality
of Ballots comprised of
two parts, a Master part and a Receipt part and said Ballot parts are
correlated by a shared unique
Ballot Random Symbolic Identifier having acronym Ballot-ID RSID, which is
comprised of a
randomly selected group of letters, numbers or symbols or, numbers and
symbols, that as a group
pattern is extremely near impossible to guess derive or predict; said Ballot
is marked or embedded
with said Ballot-ID RSID on each part, said Ballot-ID RSID correlated to a
unique barcode symbol
and a unique barcode value correlated to the unique value of the Ballot-ID
RSID, Officials sending
at least one Ballot to the Voter or Voter Proxy, said Voter or Proxy marking
each Ballot with zero,
one or a plurality of Official pre-defined choices and Voter or Proxy writing-
in and choosing zero,
one or a plurality of Voter or Proxy Write-In choices and zero, one or a
plurality of Voter Personal
Security Items; said Voter or Proxy casting said Ballot thus causing Polling
Station Voting Devices
to generate: a unique Voting Session Identifier that is used as part of a
plurality of Digital Signature
Key Values which are computed by Officials running computer software
algorithms for each of a
plurality of, a predefined choice Identifier to identify of each vote cast
without repetitions thereby
identifying each of the vote choices and Write-In choices by means of
selecting a value for the
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unique Ballot Identifier within a predetermined range, said choice Identifiers
comprising a set of
Voter Ballot data correlated to said Ballot-ID RSID; the Voter or Proxy
obtaining a voting Receipt
which provides validity at least to said unique Ballot Identifier Ballot-ID
RSID, Ballot voting RSID,
Ballot casting transaction Identifier and the set of Ballot pre-defined
choices and Voter or Proxy
Write-In choices, and at least one Jurisdiction Identifier for said electoral
process and which verifies
the results of the voting without revealing the Ballot PassCode or Voter
Personal Security Items;
said Ballot Casting Identifier being a unique, extremely near impossible to
guess predict or derive
group of symbols that is of a different size length or different composition
of reference symbols
compared to any other Ballot-ID RSID of the current Voting Session;
(d)(2) for digital rendering of said Ballot and voting choices, Officials
creating and each
Voter accessing a uniquely marked digital envelope protecting Voter's privacy,
said digital envelope
contents comprising of : Ballot-ID RSID, Ballot Voting RSID, Ballot PassCode,
the set of Voter
Ballot data, Voter private security items, at least one Jurisdiction
Identifier, the Ballot casting
transaction Identifier, and an electronic digital rendering of an exact
duplicate optical-visual
representation of said marked Ballot, said digital envelope unique marking
comprising of a pre-
assigned Ballot Container RSID and at least one Jurisdiction Identifier, after
or before said sub-
steps: carrying out a Voter authentication proof, carrying out a Ballot-ID
RSID authentication
proof, carrying out a Ballot Validation RSID authentication proof, carrying
out a Ballot Voting
RSID authentication proof, carrying out a Ballot PassCode authentication
proof, encrypting said
digital envelope contents by using the secret algorithm component of said
symmetric algorithm and
the Ballot-ID RSID as the random key to symmetrically encrypt said digital
envelope contents,
digitally signing said digital envelope and contents with Voter Identifier or
Proxy Identifier or Voter
created digital signature or Proxy created digital signature, then applying at
least one public part of
a pair of asymmetric keys taken from the correlated voting site, a correlated
digital certificate of the
Electoral Board or Officials, then applying the correlated asymmetric
encryption public key and
correlated asymmetric algorithm to further encrypt said digital envelope
symmetric encrypting key
(Ballot-ID RSID) and Voter or Proxy digital signature, then delivering said
symmetrically
encrypted, digitally signed envelope contents and asymmetrically encrypted
Ballot-ID and
asymmetrically encrypted Voter or Proxy digital signature to said digital
Ballot box of the
correlated virtual or physical site, generating a proof of delivery of said
digital envelope in the
polling station which is transmitted to Officials of the voting site and to
the Voter agent as a voting
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voucher and Receipt of having cast the vote for each Voter, recording and
redundantly storing each
digital envelope and contents thereof and each correlated delivery Receipt at
the receiving voting
site, transmitting a copy of each proof of delivery and each delivered signed
encrypted Ballot to a
plurality of central auditing computers and data storages, a plurality of
central auditing computers
and data storages receiving and redundantly storing a plurality of digitally
signed encrypted Ballots
and correlated delivery Receipts, ongoing tallying all Ballots received at
each virtual voting site and
each physical voting site and comparing to the total number of delivery
Receipts at each virtual
voting site and physical voting site, comparing said total Ballots received
tally and delivery Receipts
tallies to the central computer tallies of Ballots and delivery Receipts,
reconciling zero, one or a
plurality of differences in tallies at any site and also reconciling to
central auditing computers;
(d)(3) the members of the Electoral Board and Officials collaborating so that
they have
access to said at least one pair of asymmetric keys including the private key
or said private
component and using said private component to have access to the content of
the digital envelope;
said Officials decrypting each delivered Ballot and a plurality of delivered
Ballots, extracting each
set of Voter data from each delivered Ballot, extracting a plurality of Voter
sets of data, evaluating
each Voter set of data for over-voting and under-voting then segregating and
sorting said Voter sets
of over-voting and under-voting for separate processing, for Voter sets of
correct voting extracting,
reading, decoding and tallying each set of Voter choices and Voter Write-In
choices, and further for
a plurality of Ballots having Voter sets of correctly cast voting - tallying a
plurality of sets of Voter
choices and Voter Write-In choices;
(4) whereby one or a plurality of Certified Eligible Voter and Proxy Voters
generating:
(i) zero, one or a plurality of digital signatures by said Voter or Proxy
Voter or Voter agent
using CRVS devices and software programs for creating zero, one or a plurality
of their own private
data key or the private key components of a pair of symmetric or asymmetric or
any other type of
encryption-decryption key pairs;
(ii) and any combination of zero, one or a plurality of private Voter Personal
Security Items
comprised of any combination of: Voter created PassWords, passphrases,
PassCodes, graphic
symbols, images, glyphs, Personal Security Identifiers or patterns, personal
biological data
comprising of zero, one or a combination of: eye retinal scan, fingerprints,
voice, ear patterns, DNA
sample, eye pupils, face patterns, personal signatures and initials; and the
further optional step of
each Voter pre-validating and confirming they are in fact Certified Registered
Voters or Proxy
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Voters whom are eligible to vote in the current voting session by submitting
zero, one or a plurality
of their Personal Security Items that were previously submitted when
registering to vote with
Officials;
(4) whereby zero, one or a plurality of Voters, Proxy Voters, and electronic
Voter Agents
and Proxy Agents attach or embed or enscribe the Voter private key provided by
Officials in prior
sub-step (d)(4)(i), and zero, one or a plurality of private keys and Voter
Personal Security Items of
prior sub-step (d)(4)(ii) on zero, one or a plurality of physical, optical,
electromagnetic or electronic
Ballot return Containers before delivery of said envelope to the polling
station Officials or delegated
Official Receivers;
(e) A plurality of computer programs executing coded instructions directing
the
Computerized Voting System to carry out a vote casting process operation in
which each Voter
casts a vote electronically through a set of programs acting as a Voter Agent
and using at least one
computer device acting as a vote casting platform, comprising sub-steps of: in
that at the beginning
of the process of vote casting all required Official held Voter private keys
and Voter public keys,
secure PassWords are privately disclosed to the Voter, or are being directly
selected or generated by
the Voter; said protected private and public keys component are sent to the
Voter by polling station
computers and devices via means of said communication networks, whereby each
said network is
secured from tampering and eavesdropping by robust encryption of data prior to
transmission then
accurately decrypted and error checked and error corrected at the receiving
devices; each Voter or
Proxy submitting the unique Ballot RSID that is extremely hard to guess,
estimate or derive, the
Voter or Proxy marking zero, one or a plurality of Officials predefined voting
choices for zero, one
or a plurality of candidates, parties, and proposals and further adding zero,
one or a plurality of
Voter or Proxy Write-In choices of candidates, parties, proposals; then
Officials devices generating
a digital vote casting signature for Voter and Proxy Ballot selections of pre-
defined choices and
Write-In choices; generating a Ballot casting session key incorporating CRVS
internal processing
session information, Officials authorization keys, voting date, voting time,
voting polling station
Identifier, voting polling station location, and zero, one or a plurality of
Ballot RSIDs, generating a
pair of public-private digital data keys for use as a unique Ballot casting-
voting transaction
Identifiers, correlating said Ballot casting-voting transaction Identifiers to
the Ballot RSID and vote
casting signature, providing each Voter with a voting Receipt which discloses
the public key of the
transaction Identifier, voting date, voting time, voting polling station
Identifier, voting polling
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station location, and which verifies the results of the Voters vote casting-
voting process with an
exact copy of all voting selections or without disclosing content of the Voter
choice by the digital
vote casting signature, CRVS devices running software programs constructing a
digital envelope
protecting Voter's privacy by using a public component of at least one pair of
symmetric or
asymmetric encryption keys of an Electoral Board or Officials; each Voter
adding zero, one or a
plurality of personal security elements to said digital envelope comprising of
a digital signature and
zero, one or a plurality of private Voter Personal Security Items comprised of
any combination of
any number of: Voter created PassWords- pass-phrases and PassCodes, graphic
symbols, images,
glyphs, Personal Security Numbers or patterns, personal biological data
obtained from: eye retinal
blood vessel pattern scan, fingerprint(s voice, ear size and shape patterns,
DNA-DioxyNucleic Acid
samples from skin, hair or blood , eye pupils colors and patterns, skin
galvinometric readings, skin
blood capillary readings, breathing patterns and breath exhalation contents,
body movements and
facial micro-movements, reflex actions, responses to tactile and auditory
stimuli, face structure
patterns, personal written signatures, personal initials ; said digital
envelope containing at least the
Voter choice, after or before said sub-steps, carrying out a Voter
authentication proof, generating a
proof of delivery of said digital envelope in a computer server acting as a
Polling Station which is
transmitted to the Voter, Proxy and Voter agent as a voting voucher of having
cast the vote for each
Voter, fully separate from non-coded Voter choice; wherein said program also
comprises parts of
computer program codes that are readable by a computer system to carry out a
vote verification
process operation that allows said Voter to verify the Voter's vote by
accessing the results published
on a computer device acting as a publication site, which contain the Voter's
unique Ballot Identifier,
carrying out a search of the unique Ballot Identifier and allowing the Voter
to file a claim supported
on said voting Receipt and said voting voucher in the Event of lack of the
unique Ballot Identifier in
the results published, either with or without disclosing the Voter choices;
and further wherein said
voting voucher is validated at said Voter Registration devices and Voter
Ballot Polling Station
devices by means of a digital signature and zero, one or a plurality of
private Voter Personal
Security Items comprised of said Voter created PassWords pass-phrases and
PassCodes, graphic
symbols, images, glyphs, Personal Security Numbers or patterns, personal
biological data obtained
from: eye retinal blood vessel pattern scan, fingerprints, voice, ear size and
shape patterns, DNA-
DioxyNucleic Acid samples from skin, hair or blood , eye pupils colors and
patterns, skin
galvinometric readings, skin blood capillary readings, breathing patterns and
breath exhalation
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contentsõ body movements and facial micro-movements, reflex actions, responses
to tactile and
auditory stimuli, face structure patterns, personal written signatures,
personal initials; said voting
Receipt is validated by means of a digital signature with a private component
of said at least one
pair of symmetric or asymmetric or any other aforesaid type of digital data
encryption-decryption
keys and key pairs utilized by said Polling Station; when said Voting Receipt
has been encrypted
by means of a symmetric or asymmetric key cryptosystem, using a session key
generated by the
Voter or Proxy Voter or Voter Agent or Officials or Electoral Board, or
Officials computers,
devices and software of the CRVS; using a private component of said unique
pair of asymmetric or
symmetric or any other type of aforesaid data encryption keys, key-pairs and
data encryption-
decryption algorithms provided and used by each Polling Station devices and
Officials, whereby at
each Polling Station used for receiving Voter Documents or Voter data or
Officials Documents,
Officials reports or Officials data: Officials and Officials Voting Session
Devices digitally signs
each Container envelope used to transmit or submit or receive or validate or
authenticate or certify
or store or retrieve or amend or error detect or error report or error check
or error repair: (i) a cast
Ballot, or (ii) Voter Registration, or (iii) Voter Language choice, (iv) or
Voter Investigation Request
(v) Official Investigation Report or (vi) Official Amendment, or (vii)
Official Validation, (viii)
Official Authentication, (ix) Official Certification; (x) Official Tallys;
said Official Voting Session
Devices also digitally sign each received: Ballot, Voter Registration, Voter
Language selection,
Voter Investigation Request, Official Investigation Report, Official
Amendment, Official
Validation, Official Authentication, Official Certification, Official Tally
and for a plurality of any
other types Documents or Voter data or Officials Documents, Officials reports
or Officials data;
said Officials Voting Session Devices creating lists of certified eligible
Voters and Proxy Voters
who submitted Documents or information for processing, list of Identifiers of
Voters and Proxy
Voters started Registration or casting their vote or submitting an
investigation request but did not
complete the submission for recorded reasons also included, and digitally
signed for all Official
reports, and any other and contents of the digital Ballot Box, and the digital
Voter Registration
Box; Officials securely storing and securely sharing among other Officials and
Official devices,
zero, one or a plurality of aforesaid Documents and data of zero, one or a
plurality of Voters and
Officials;
(ii) further whereby for electronic voting methods and for optical scanned
Documents as
well as for both in-person voting or paper-ballot mail-in voting - zero, one
or a plurality of Voters,
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Proxy Voters, Officials or devices may optionally add zero, one or a plurality
of Voter Private
Authentication Keys: PassWords, PassCodes, phrases, signatures, graphics or
images which is then
computer algorithmically combined with the Ballot Data Set and Voting Session
Data Set which
are all correlated then aggregated as a single Object then encrypted using
Official Public Encryption
Key and Official Encryption Algorithm, then transmitted securely for
decryption (using Official
Private Decryption Key, and Officials Decryption Algorithm) then reviewed for
error checking,
error correcting, review, tallying, storage and publishing but keeping the
Voter Private
Authentication Keys, and the Ballot PassCode secret and unpublished ¨ and
further similarly for a
plurality of Voter Registration Documents and any other Documents of this
invention;
(f) counting and tabulating the Voter choice of each Voter and publishing the
results at the
publication site and allowing said Voter to verify said results by using said
voting Receipt with or
without disclosing the Voter choice through accessing the results published on
the publication site,
which contain the Voter's unique Ballot Identifier, carrying out a search of
the unique Ballot
Identifier and allowing the Voter to file a claim supported on said voting
Receipt and said voting
voucher in the Event of lack of the unique Ballot Identifier in the results
published, with or without
disclosing the Voter choices thereof said Ballot;
(g) receiving and investigating zero, one or a plurality of Voter discrepancy
reports,
recording investigation results, amending records and marking each amended
Ballot as being
amended, reporting amended results to Voters, auditors, and publishing all
amendments;
(i) when the voting period nearing end date and end time, Officials or
Electoral Board
sending to each Polling Station a closing order from which time no new
connections are accepted
from the Official Voter Agent for which each polling station and zero, one or
a plurality of Officials
carries out following operations: obtaining a cryptographic summary of the
sets of digital envelopes
issued or digital Ballot box; obtaining a cryptographic summary of the Voter
Identifiers which
having started the vote casting process still did not complete it; sending to
the electoral board the
two preceding cryptographic summaries or a single summary of said set of
digital envelopes with
said Voter Identifiers who did not still complete the vote casting process; )
and after a
predetermined time elapses which allows the Voters that are still in the
process of voting to end the
vote casting processing, Voter Registration processing and other Documents
processing;
(h) Officials actively authenticating, validating, monitoring, tracking, and
assessing: actively
participating voters, proxy voters, officials, official devices, voter and
proxy voter devices,
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communications systems, computer processes and services - allowing valid,
authentic activities but
disallowing invalid, unauthenticated, and unapproved activities - and further
upon reaching or
surpassing the allowed end date and end time for Registration or voting
session ballot casting,
actively stopping receiving, issuing and processing of all Ballots,
Registrations, and Document
Containers at the end of the Registration and voting sessions; certifying the
final results and closing
the voting session relative to the local preset dates and times allowable for
the voting session and
further to any adjustments made for local date and time, daylight savings
time, and as may further
be allowable by any Official exceptions; at least one Official declaring the
Voting Session as
closed, then sending the complete digital Ballot box to the Electoral Board
whose members and
Officials and Official Agents use a plurality of CRVS computers, software
program and related
devices to tally, summarize, analyze, generate and review reports of voting
session results and
resolve zero, one or a plurality of outstanding issues, then at least one or a
plurality of Electoral
Board members and Officials and Official Agents verify, validate, certify then
publish the final
amended records, tallies, calculations, summaries and reports pertaining Voter
Registrations,
Ballots, and any other relevant aspect of the Voting Session to the Voters,
sponsoring- business(es),
political partys, government, non-political groups, and optionally to the
public of and public news
media.
[Claim 2] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein: at least one
Official uses
at least one computer running software programs for the purposes of creating,
defining, assigning
and correlating each type of Security Element such that at least one Official
:
(A)(i) generating a plurality of Random Symbolic Identifiers (RSIDs) which are
constructed
so as to be extremely near impossible to guess, derive, extract, predict or
pre-calculate; and applying
sorting and grouping mathematical algorithms in computers running software
programs so as to also
derive the RSID symbolic characters and RSID correlated numeric value which
may alternatively
been pre-computed and stored with the binary value so as to facilitate
sorting, organizing, storing
and retrieval of RSIDs;
(ii) recording and storing each RSID created in an unchangeable aforesaid POEM
format on
at least one permanent data storage media, along with the creation dates,
times, and all other
relevant information;
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(iii) assigns at least one RSID to any single Ballot, Voter Registration form,
Language
selection form, Ballot envelope, data Container, Receipt, Object, data item or
transmission of this
invention;
(iv) assigning consistently to zero, one or a plurality of groupings of
similar Ballots,
Voter Registration forms, Language selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data
Containers, Receipts,
Objects, data items or transmissions - such that at least one RSID is
consistently assigned for each
Ballot, Voter Registration form, Language selection form, Ballot envelope,
data Container, Receipt,
Object, data item or transmission within any group;
(v) assigning zero, one or a plurality of RSIDs to zero, one or a plurality of
Ballots,
Voter Registration forms, Language selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data
Containers, Receipts,
Objects, data items, Communications or Data transmissions of this invention;
(vi) assigning at least one Ballot Voting RSID to each Ballot;
(vii) assigning zero, one or a plurality of Validation RSID to each Ballot;
(viii) assigning one Voter Registration RSID to each Eligible Voter and each
Eligible
Proxy Voter;
(ix) assigning one Certified Voter RSID to each certified, registered Voter
and each Proxy
Voter; (x) recording the dates, times, and any other relevant information
along with the usage
assignment notes for each RSID that is assigned;
(B)(i) generating a plurality of linear barcodes, or two dimensional barcodes,
or three-
dimensional or multi-dimensional barcodes, or any other type of value weighted
graphical symbolic
representations of data;
(ii) correlating each RSID value of aforesaid step (A) to one barcode numeric
value
and to one barcode representation;
(iii) consistently assigns a barcode along with a correlated RSID to zero, one
or a
plurality of Ballots, Voter Registration forms, Language selection forms,
Ballot envelopes, data
Containers, Receipts, Objects, data items or transmissions of this invention;
(iv) assigns and correlates any number of, and group of character symbols,
data
values, data elements, numbers, symbols or groups of human readable words -
that are regarded as
the sources of information - so that each unique content from the sources of
information is
correlated to a specific unique barcode pattern which shall be further
correlated to a uniquely
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encoded group of symbols that has a correlated, unique numeric value for each
unique barcode
pattern and unique source content;
(v) reading, retrieving, scanning zero, one or a plurality of data elements or
groups of
human readable words, numbers and symbols that are regarded as or correlated
as the source for the
information element for each barcode;
(vi) corroborates the accuracy of scanning of zero, one or a plurality of
barcodes, by
further comparing the values and symbolic representations of each information
element of the
source to the values or symbols derived from scanning the correlated barcodes;
(vii) recording the results of scanning and corroboration comparison, then
signaling
zero, one or a plurality of error messages, and option steps of error
verification analysis, error
correction, error correction analysis so as to facilitate the accurate
scanning of data associated with
each barcode, for zero, one or a plurality of barcodes and the inter-related
source information and
correlated numeric values and symbolic values thereof;
(viii) For a plurality of RSIDs, Officials assembling and constructing said
RSIDs
while also sorting and storing RSIDs into data structures comprised of arrays,
linked lists, N-trees,
sparse matrices, files, tables, database records ; for said assembled RSIDs,
Officials creating an
indexed table of data entries consisting of at least the binary value for each
completed well formed
RSID concatenated symbolic characters and also the correlated RSID Assembly
Identifier (which is
stored with each correlated RSID as the Assembly RSID identifies and
correlates the specific group
of RSID symbols used to assemble each unique RSID of the correlated unique
RSIDClusterGroupName as well as the unique RSIDClusterGroupID, unique
RSIDAssemblyID,
RSIDAssemblyStatus, RSIDAssemblyValue, RSIDAssemblyDate, RSIDAssemblyTime,
RSIDAssemblyDeviceIDs and RSIDAssemblyLocationIDs;
(viii) Officials then using at least of said data structures and said indexing
and said
identifiers to correlate and store the correlated data of each RSID for a
plurality of RSIDs;
Officials then correlating and storing entire RSID and RSID Assembly data;
(ix) Officials calculating hashing values while or shortly after assembling
said pluraility
of RSIDs, Officials using computers running software hashing calculation
algorithms calculating
hashing values for zero, one or a plurality of entire RSIDs, and for zero, one
or a plurality of
portions of each RSID whereby each RSID portion of each RSID is consistently
the same size and
taken from the exact same positions of the RSID, for zero, one or a plurality
of RSID symbolic
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characters copied from at or near the RSID start, middle and end portions of
each properly formed
RSID; Officials then identifying and storing into said data structures, said
hashing values that are
also correlated to each RSID - whereby hashing values and correlated RSID
portions are stored into
at least one computer data structures comprised of data arrays, linked lists,
N-Trees, sparse matrices,
data file, data tables, database table records;
(x) Officials searching for and validating or rejecting hashing values
computed from
Voters provided RSIDs and further whereby Officials record and message said
search results for
RSID hashing values further handling any and all errors arising; Officials
locating computed Voters
RSID hashing values in Officials data storages then retrieving cluster group
of all correlated
identical RSID hashing values from Officials data storages then Officials
further searching for the
exact RSID value within each retrieved cluster group and then messaging and
recording whether
and exact Official RSID is found to match the Voters provided RSID and further
handling all errors;
Upon locating Voter provided RSID with an exact matching RSID in Official
records data storage
records, Officials validate and authenticate Voter provided RSID, record
search result, send
correlated message to said Voters then Officials enable allowing further
processing for each Voter
whose Voter provided RSID was found, otherwise denying unfound RSIDs;
Repeating aforesaid
Voter RSID search for Ballot RSIDs, Ballot PassCodes, Voter Registration IDs,
Voter Registration
PassCodes, Voter Language Selection Documents, Ballot and Registration
Container RSIDs,
correlated Official PassCodes, Officials Registration Ids, correlated Official
Registration
PassCodes, Voting Session Receipt Identifiers, Ballot Selection Identifiers,
Language Selection
Identifiers, Officials Personal Security Items, Voters Personal Security
Items, Voters Privacy
Security Records, Ballot Signature Identifiers, Registration Signature
Identifiers, and any other
Voting Session RSIDs, PassCodes, Records, Groups, Events for a plurality of
Officials, Voters,
RSIDs, PassWords, Session IDs, Location Identifiers, Device Identifiers;
(C) a plurality of Officials and Official Devices defining, detecting and
verifying a
plurality of Objects characteristics or properties of materials or man-made
devices comprised of:
embedded micro-electronic or micro-optical or micro-chemical devices,
holograms, Braille code
embossing, optical structures or devices, electronic devices or structures,
magnetic fields or devices,
organic or inorganic chemicals, biological materials, genetic materials or
genetic structures or
genetic sequences, specialized man-made materials, crystal structures,
plastics, metals, gas
emissions, electromagnetic radiation, radioactive materials, optical
emissions, natural fibers, man-
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made fibers, microfilm dots, microscopic writing, embossing, photon-sensitive
symbols, photon-
sensitive text, or infra-red radiation sensitive text, symbols or images onto
and inside of materials,
electronic codes, optical codes, optical or digitized pictures, codes embedded
within optical pictures
or digitized pictures, watermarks, or seals of authenticity which are
integral, affixed or associated
thereto any Ballots, Voter Registration forms, Language selection forms,
Ballot envelopes, data
Containers, Receipts, Objects, data items or transmissions, or to zero, one or
a plurality of Voter
Personal Security Items, or to zero, one or a plurality of Vote Processing
Devices of this invention.
[Claim 3] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein at least one
Official:
(A) (i) employing zero, one or a plurality of people using any number and
combination of Vote Processing Devices and zero, one or a plurality of
computers and other data
gathering devices running software programs for the purpose of determining the
names of Potential
Voters, and their contact information of said Potential Voters;
(ii) recording the Potential Voters names, contact information, dates, times,
and
any other relevant Voter-Registration qualifying information;
(iii) determining from prior step (i) herein this claim, which persons or
legal entities
are Eligible Voters;
(iv) correlating each Eligible Voter to a single Eligible Voter List which is
then also
correlated to the Voting Region or Voting Caste the Voter is affiliated with;
(v) sending and making available a plurality of Voter Registration forms to
each
Voter, and to a plurality of Voters, and to each reasonably Potential Voters;
(vi) evaluating, certifying and registering all Voters who reply in time with
a
sufficiently completed Voter Registration form that contains adequate Voter
personal data which
qualifies them to be designated to the Certified Registered Voters List;
(B) sending or making available, at least one Ballot, Voter Registration form,
Language selection form, Ballot envelope, data Container, Receipt, Object,
data item or
transmission of this invention to each Voter - with the restriction of sending
Ballots for Voting to
each Voter only if their name is already recorded on the Certified Registered
Voters List;
(C) sending a plurality of Ballots, Voter Registration forms, Language
selection forms,
Ballot envelopes, data Containers, Receipts, Objects, data items or
transmissions of this invention to
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any number of, and any types of Voters - with the restriction of sending
Ballots for Voting to each
Voter only if there name is already recorded on the Certified Registered
Voters List;
(D) Officials recording for each Voter, dates, times, and any other relevant
information of
each single Ballot, Voter Registration form, Language selection form, Ballot
envelope, data
Container, Receipt, Object, data item and communications to each Voter and a
plurality of Voters.
[Claim 4] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein: a plurality of
Voters
receives : (A) at least one Voter Registration forms, Language selection
forms, data Containers,
Receipts, Objects, data items or transmissions of this invention;
(B) (i) a plurality of Eligible, Registered Voters receiving at least one
Whole Ballot,
zero, one or a plurality of Ballot envelopes, data Containers, Receipts,
Objects, data items or
transmissions of this invention; (ii) and further whereby within any Voting
Region, zero, one or a
plurality of Certified Registered Voters, or their designated legal Proxy, may
optionally exchange
zero, one or a plurality of times, zero, one or a plurality of valid,
authentic Ballots, that are useable
within their Voting Region and Jurisdiction for the currently active or
impending Voting Session;
and (iii) whereby zero, one or a plurality of Certified Registered Voters or
their Proxy, use zero, one
or a plurality of Validation RSIDs assigned to communicate to at least one
Official as to whether the
Ballot they may exchange their Ballot for has a valid RSID;
(C) and further whereby: after participating or disregarding the options for
exchanging
Ballots as may be allowed for the Voting Session, zero, one or a plurality of
Eligible Voters and
Proxy Voters complete zero, one or a plurality of Ballots, Voter Registration
forms, Language
selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data Containers, Receipts, Objects, data
items or transmissions of
this invention;
(D) whereby completing said Ballots entails Eligible Voters and designated
Proxy Voters
choosing zero, one or a plurality of Officials pre-defined options of
Candidates, Groups and
Proposals, a plurality of said Eligible Voters and designated Proxy Voters may
then optionally
Write-In zero, one or a plurality of alternative Candidate choices, zero, one
or a plurality of
alternative Group choices, and zero, one or a plurality of alternative
Proposals, Voters and Proxy
Voters then affixing or assigning or linking their Personal Security Items to
the aforesaid Ballot,
then returning said completed Ballots to at least one Official, using zero,
one or a plurality of Return
Containers.
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[Claim 5] The Computerized Voting System of claim I wherein: at least one
Official or a
plurality of Officials:
(A) receiving zero, one or a plurality of Ballots, Voter Registration forms,
Language
selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data Containers, Receipts, Objects, data
items or transmissions
and Voter Personal Security Items of this invention - from zero, one or a
plurality of Voters, and
any types of Voters;
(B) recording notes for each Voter submission: the dates, times, and any other
relevant information along with data about each and all received Ballots,
Voter Registration forms,
Language selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data Containers, Receipts,
Objects, data items,
transmissions and Voter Personal Security Items; then chooses to either:
(C) accepting for processing zero, one or a plurality of Ballots, Voter
Registration forms,
Language selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data Containers, Receipts,
Objects, data items or
transmissions of this invention, which DO have a valid, usable RSID, or,
(D) refusing to accept for processing zero, one or a plurality of Ballots,
Voter Registration
forms, Language selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data Containers, Receipts,
Objects, data items
or transmissions of this invention, which DO not have a valid, usable RSID,
or,
(E) accepting and segregating zero, one or a plurality of items or
transmissions of this
invention, which do have a valid, but duplicate RSID - and then reviewing the
authenticity of a
plurality of Objects, data items or transmissions, and then certifying and
restoring processing of the
valid Objects, data items or transmissions, then amending all related records
to reflect relevant
actions;
(F) and for all instances of a valid RSID, then processing all timely received
Ballots, Voter
Registration forms, Language selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data
Containers, Receipts, Objects,
data items or transmissions of this invention which are validated and
certified by First acquiring,
recording and storing an image of the entire Ballot, form, Container, Receipt,
then for the said
image, enhancing, scaling and rendering said image for scanning the associated
RSID symbols and
the RSID barcode by selecting an appropriate Document scanning Template, or a
series of scanning
Templates, designed to isolate desired data fields for data capture and
imaging, then extracting the
correlated values of said data fields by employing optical character
recognition software and
intelligent character reading software for extracting, reading and decoding
the extracted data fields
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values so as to compare to the corresponding Official records of valid RSID
values previously
created, recorded and stored;
(G) whereby for each matching RSID values deemed valid:
(i) processing each Voter Registration form, Language selection form, Ballot
envelope, data
Container, Receipt, Object, data item or transmission is deemed valid for
scanning;
(ii) scanning each of the aforesaid having a valid RSID, extracting any number
of: Voter
information items, Voter Personal Security Items, Official data elements,
Security Elements,
alignment Marks and scan zone coordinate Marks which are then recorded,
correlated, analyzed,
error checked, authenticated or rejected, tallied, and stored;
or, (iii) scanning each Ballot that is deemed having a valid RSID, extracting
zero, one or a
plurality of data contents of: Voter Selections , Voter Write-In choices,
Voter Personal Security
Items, Official data elements, Security Elements, alignment Marks and scan
zone coordinate Marks
from zero, one or a plurality of required portions of the Ballot for which
said data contents are read-
extracted, recorded, analyzed, error checked, validated, authenticated or
rejected, tallied, and stored
for immediate use, later retrieval;
(H) (a) whereby Officials physically, optically, electromagnetically and/ or
electronically
print and send or render and display or auditorily broadcast or transmit to
each successfully
registered a Voter and Proxy Voter, their personal Voter Registration
Confirmation form or Proxy
Voter Registration form which each Voter may use to enable Voting in person,
or may be kept or
returned with their completed Ballot or Language Selection form, or when
required by Officials;
(b) said Voter Registration Confirmation form comprises of optically,
electromagnetically,
electronically scannable and Template machine readable information data fields
capable of
accurately capturing and recording data and for detecting the absence of data,
is used for locating,
reading and decoding; said data fields are correlated to values for each of a
plurality of: Voting
Session Identifier, Voting Jurisdiction Identifier, Voting Elector District,
Voting Polling Station,
Voting List Identifier, Voting List Group Identifier, Voting List Sub-Group
Identifier, Voting List
Sequence Locator Identifier, Voting List Sequence Identifier, Poll Station
Voter Sequence Number
Identifier, Voter Identifier, Voter SuperKey Identifier, First Name, Middle
Name, Family Name,
Personal Title, Voting Status, Voting Methods Available, Qualifying Horne
Address, Home City,
Home State, Home ZipCode, Home Address Identifier, Phone, Electronic Mail
address, postal
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Mailing Address, Mailing City, Mailing State, Mailing ZipCode, Mailing Address
Identifier,
General Instructions, Voter Special Instructions, Registration Confirmation
Identifier;
(c) further said Voter Registration Confirmation form also comprises of
encoded barcodes
comprised of any combinations of: physically printed or electronically
rendered optical markings or
electromagnetic materials having data storage fields containing the correlated
alpha-numeric values
for: Voting Session Identifier, Voting Jurisdiction Identifier, Voting Elector
District, Voting Polling
Stations Identifier, Voting List Identifier, Voting List Group Identifier,
Voting List Sub-Group
Identifier, Voting List Sequence Locator Identifier, Voting List Sequence
Identifier, Poll Station
Voter Sequence Number Identifier, Voter Identifier, Voter SuperKey
Identifiers, Home Address
Identifier, Mailing Address Identifier, General Instructions Identifier, Voter
Special Instructions
Identifier, Voter Registration Confirmation Identifier;
(I) enabling each Voter to validate their Voter Registration or cast Ballot
vote processing
accuracy by using their privately known Ballot Voting RSID or Voter
Registration RSID and zero,
one or a plurality of Official PassCodes and zero, one or a plurality of Voter
Personal Security
Items, so as to confirm Official processing accuracy or to make amendments,
optionally by referring
to correlated private Internet WebPages and zero, one or a plurality of
Official records;
(J) Receiving and investigating all amendments requested and processing or
rejecting zero,
one or a plurality of amendment requests, recording all valid amendments,
publishing the
amendments; and retaining a record of the image of the pre-amendment Ballot or
Registration;
(K) tallying, summarizing and publishing all Registrations and Ballots
received, along with a
complete list of all timely received, and all other valid, Ballot RSIDs that
were assigned to Ballots
and Registrations for public validation, and also tallying, summarizing and
publishing for all
amendments of all Ballots, all Voter Registrations and for any other Documents
and Containers.
[Claim 6] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein:
the actions, functions, operations and processing of this invention are
performed by
any combination and zero, one or a plurality of any plurality of Official
persons, designated
agents, zero, one or a plurality of Vote Processing Devices;
whereby zero, one or a plurality of Officials, Officials appointees, Official
Devices
utilize zero, one or a plurality of combinations of Vote Processing Devices to
send, receive
or process zero, one or a plurality of: Documents, forms, Containers, and
zero, one or a
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plurality of data elements therein and any correlated information thereof, and
also zero, one
or a plurality of: data files, data transmissions or data Objects or data of
this invention -
whereby zero, one or a plurality of Officials use zero, one or a plurality of
Vote Processing
Devices and zero, one or a plurality of types of computer software programs to
facilitate at
least one or a plurality of tasks, comprised of the steps and methods to
perform:
(i) research, identify, define, design, create, amend, correlate, associate,
link,
verify, authenticate, certify, prepare, organize, sort, assemble, record,
store, print, publish,
distribute, send, transmit, receive, create, assign, attach, link, embed,
photograph, image
process, image enhance, record, data scan, data detect, data reject, data
store, data retrieve,
electronically scan and detect, optically scan and detect, electromagnetically
scan and
detect, copy, duplicate, tally, count, calculate, search, sort, organize,
Mark, label, tag,
identify, data encrypt, data decrypt, data convert, data translate, Language
translation, data
reconstruction, data compression, data decompression, data inventory, data
organization,
data encoding, data decoding, data storage, data indexing, data retrieval,
data linking, data
embedding, data extraction, data manipulation, data optimization, task
planning, data design,
data software design, data tracking, data storage, data retrieval, random
number creation,
symbolic character design, printing, package labeling, package identification,
package
tracking, data security, Document tracking, Document identification,
acknowledging, error
identification, error recording, error correction, error transmission, error
reception, error
reporting, error authenticating, data reporting, data communicating, data
printing, data
publishing, transmitting data, receiving data - either internally by Officials
or, to or zero, one
or a plurality of combinations of and any types of: Officials, Voters, Proxy
Voters, legal
entities, public, news media, electronic devices, communications networks,
public devices,
Official Voting Session Devices;
(ii) translating human and device readable codes to modes, protocols or
methods of
communication, transmission, data storage, data indexing, decryption,
encryption,
compression, decompression of any data;
(iii) locating, receiving, detecting, interpreting, translating, reporting,
transmitting error
free data;
(iv) locating, receiving, detecting, interpreting, translating, reporting, and
correcting
compromised data, erroneous data, dubious data, duplicate data or duplicate
transmissions;
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(v) enhance processing speed and accuracy of processing (scanning, imaging,
reading,
decoding, storing, searching, retrieving, analyzing, authenticating,
validating, tallying, reporting,
publishing ) for zero, one or a plurality of Ballots, Documents, forms,
Containers and any other
Objects of this invention by assigning, correlating, affixing, attaching or
embedding zero, one or a
plurality of markings, electro-magnetic fields, optical scanning markings,
optical alignment
markings or optical skew markings to ensure proper optical scanning, and
proper electromagnetic
processing;
(vi) and the further steps and methods of enabling optical or physical
orientation
comprised of: a darkened, or highlighted or cut-away corner, V-notch,
circular, rectangular or
shaped hole markings or holes that is consistently implemented so as to assist
in expediting sorting,
organizing, separation, grouping, scanning, counting, accounting or
enumeration of at least one of a
plurality of: Documents, forms, Containers and any Objects of this invention;
(vii) whereby Officials actively take steps to ensure the accuracy of data as
well as to
preserve data integrity, and ensure data longevity, data security and Voter
privacy.
[Claim 7] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein: Security
Elements, are
applied to zero, one or a plurality of Documents of this invention, so as to
preserve the integrity of
Voting Session for any Documents, data records, data communications, data
Containers, data
storages whereby Security Elements are:
(A) zero, one or a plurality of Voters create and assign zero, one or a
plurality of PassCodes,
PassWords, signatures, initials or other uniquely identifiable physical
markings, audio recordings,
video recordings, electronic, electromagnetic, chemical, biological, physical
structures, bio-metric
data submissions ;
(B) zero, one or a plurality of Officials created graphical: linear barcodes,
two dimensional
barcodes, three dimensional barcodes, QR graphic codes, value weighted
graphical symbolic
representations of data; and the steps and methods of assigning at least one
or a plurality of:
character symbols, data values, data elements, numbers, symbols or groups of
human readable
words, that are regarded as the sources of information, so that each unique
content from the source
of information is correlated to a specific barcode pattern which shall be
correlated to a uniquely
encoded group of symbols that also has correlated, a unique numeric value for
each unique barcode
pattern and unique content of information; and for corroboration of accuracy,
the further steps and
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methods of comparing the values and symbolic representations of each
information element to the
values or symbols derived from scanning the correlated barcodes; and the
further steps and methods
to retrieve or scan zero, one or a plurality of data elements or groups of
human readable words,
numbers and symbols that are regarded as or correlated as the source for the
information element for
each barcode; and for corroboration of accuracy, the further steps and methods
of comparing the
values and symbolic representations of each information element to the values
or symbols derived
from scanning the correlated barcodes; and the further steps of recording the
results of comparison,
signaling zero, one or a plurality of error messages, and option steps of
error verification analysis,
error correction, error correction analysis so as to facilitate the accurate
scanning of data associated
with each barcode, and for zero, one or a plurality of barcodes of a plurality
of barcodes;
(C) zero, one or a plurality of Officially recognized characteristics or
properties of
materials or man-made devices comprised of: embedded micro-electronic or micro-
optical or micro-
chemical devices, holograms, Braille code embossing, optical structures or
devices, electronic
devices or structures, magnetic fields or devices, organic or inorganic
chemicals, biological
materials, genetic materials or genetic structures or genetic sequences,
specialized man-made
materials, crystal structures, plastics, metals, gas emissions,
electromagnetic radiation, radioactive
materials, optical emissions, natural fibers, man-made fibers, microfilm dots,
microscopic writing,
embossing, photon-sensitive symbols, photon-sensitive text, or infra-red
radiation sensitive (text,
symbols or images) on/in materials, electronic codes, optical codes, optical
or digitized pictures,
codes embedded within optical pictures or digitized pictures, watermarks, or
seals of authenticity
which are integral, affixed or associated thereto any Document or zero, one or
a plurality of Vote
Processing Devices of this invention;
(D) a plurality of Random Symbolic Identifiers (RSIDs) are manufactured by
Officials
using at least one computer running software programs such that:
(i) each RSID is manufactured to be unique among all RSIDs of the Voting
Session;
(ii) each RSID is comprised of randomly selected symbols (chosen from a pre-
defined
reference group of symbols) that are directly usable by the Voters and
Officials;
(iii) Officials estimate the total number of RSIDs required and thereafter
calculate a
larger quantity of character symbol permutations so as to completely
accommodate the total number
of RSIDs required, while also acting to remove undesirable symbol permutation
patterns;
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(iv) during assembly, the quantity of selectable pre-defined symbols chosen is
consistently the same for each usage type of RSID;
(v) all of the selected RSID symbols are concatenated to produce one unique
string of
symbols to be the resultant manufactured RSID;
(vi) each RSID pre-defined symbol of the preceding steps is consistently
assigned a
binary value or base X numbering system value (where X is any chosen number)
which is the
assigned symbol numeric value;
(vii) for each manufactured RSID string, and for all of the symbols within
each RSID,
Officials consistently assemble a concatenated string of the assigned symbol
numeric values that is
directly correlated to the symbols within the RSID and is designated as the
numeric value of the
RSID;
(viii) as a result of the preceding, each RSID is a unique group of symbols,
and each
RSID has a correlated unique numeric value - both of which are made to be near
impossible to
guess, derive, extract, predict or pre-calculate - and therefore whatever
Document or electronic file
or data transmission uses an RSID is assured of protection against forgery as
the voting system will
reject invalid RSIDs and will also set flag and set aside any duplicate RSIDs;
(ix) further said RSID symbols may be further data compressed;
(x) said RSID may be further appended or prefixed by zero, one or a plurality
of data
symbols used for error detection, error identification, error specification,
error localization, error
correction and error data recovery, error detection rejection, usage
designation Identifier, data
encryption security;
(E) and the further steps and methods whereby:
(i) Officials organize each type and group of RSID's to be rapidly retrievable
with a
minimum of processing for authentication and validation, which may be achieved
by merging
implementations of data storage, search, retrieval methods that is applied to
any number of, and
data storage structures that are correlated to zero, one or a plurality of
data structures such as: flat-
files, linked lists, arrays, data records, data record tables, N-trees, Object-
oriented or relational
databases, file structures or any combinations thereof, which are stored,
accessed, indexed and
manipulated by computer running software programs and that are communicating
with zero, one or
a plurality of peer and supervisory computers and any number and combination
of Vote Processing
Devices using zero, one or a plurality of communications systems and computer
networks via any
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number of, and any types of communication devices, computer security devices
and zero, one or a
plurality of types of computer software so as to effectively and efficiently
process data for optimal
data storage, retrieval, integrity, longevity, security, privacy;
(ii) all created RSIDs are permanently and redundantly recorded to at least
one secure,
unalterable form of data storage;
(F) Officials creating, assigning and correlating zero, one or a plurality of
RSIDs, to
zero, one or a plurality of Documents zero, one or a plurality of data
Containers zero, one or a
plurality of data communications of this invention;
(G) and the further steps of assigning, correlating and encoding each RSID and
RSID
numeric value and correlated RISD symbol string value to zero, one or a
plurality of barcodes and
correlated barcode numeric values and derived barcode symbol-characters of
prior step B;
(H) and the further steps and methods whereby:
(i) all valid RSID's created by Officials, except for any RSIDs received by
all
Registered Voters, or used for examples or testing purposes, are kept
absolutely secret from all other
Voters before and during a voting session;
(ii) any public RSID used for testing, examples or information purposes are
disallowed in
Eligible Voter Registrations, Voting Ballot counts and tallies;
(iii) Officials enable validation of zero, one or a plurality of RSIDs, by
providing for
each Voter, controlled access to a session limited number queries of valid
RSIDs for Documents,
Forms, Containers, or data records of this invention;
( I ) and the further steps and methods to securely Mark, record, associate,
attach, enclose,
encrypt, embed zero, one or a plurality of Security Elements of this claim to
zero, one or a plurality
of Documents, Containers, data transmissions, data storages, data retrievals,
and any validation,
authentication and certification processes and any related events, data,
communications and
processes for any claims of this invention.
[Claim 8] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein: a Certified
Registered
Voter List is developed by one or more Officials who:
(A) use any number and combination of Vote Processing Devices to query various
computer databases to gather, sort and record data to identify any viable
Potential Voters;
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(B) assign each identified person or legal entity of the preceding step A, a
unique
Potential Voter Identifier (PVID) which is public, and also a private,
internal use RSID, and the
further steps of correlating each Voter, public PVID and private, internal use
PV-RSID;
(C) assign each Voter Identifier and each correlated PV-RSID of the preceding
step B
to be linked to and correlated to zero, one or a plurality of lists, forms,
Documents, Ballots, data
Containers, Fax or Facsimiles, Internet web-pages, Internet EMails, or any
other information data of
this invention;
(D) deliver or make available zero, one or a plurality of incomplete Voter
Registration
forms by postal mail, electronic mail, facsimile, mobile data device,
interactive television,
interactive telephone, Internet WebPages for zero, one or a plurality of
Voters to complete and
return deliver to Officials who receive for review, certification, amending or
rejecting of each Voter
Registration received;
(E) assemble at least one of each type of Voters Lists;
(F) conduct research to determine each Voter eligibility then assigns zero,
one or a plurality
of Potential Voters to, at most, one type of Voter List of the preceding step;
(G) determine for zero, one or a plurality of Potential Voters their unique
geo-political
voting region Identifier or unique voting caste Identifier and thereafter
correlates each Potential
Voter, based on their status according to step (D) of this claim, to a
specific correlated Voters List
assigned to the correlated geo-political voting region or voting caste;
(H) each Potential Voter is assigned a Voter Registration Status attribute so
as to define
whether the Voter has been registered to Vote in the Voting Session, and the
further step whereby
the attribute value is set by default to False, No or otherwise according to
Voting Session Rules;
( I ) Officials employ computers running software programs to query reliable
data systems
so as to determine whom will be eligible to vote during the Voting Session,
and also gathers data as
to how to contact those Eligible Voters and other Potential Voters;
( J ) Officials create, print, distribute zero, one or a plurality of Voter
Registration forms to
zero, one or a plurality of Eligible, Potential and Unknown Voters;
( K ) each Whole Voter Registration form is comprised of at least two parts,
such that one
part has exactly one Master Voter Registration form and the Second part is
comprised of zero, one
or a plurality of Receipt Voter Registration forms;
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( L ) and the further step such that each Master and Receipt parts of each
Whole Voter
Registration is assigned at least one unique Identifier, a Voter Registration
Identifier having
acronym: VRID, that is used to correlate said Whole Voter Registration
constituent Master and
Receipt parts thereof, and to distinguish each Voter Registration form and
each Master and Receipt
constituent parts from among all other Voter Registrations forms, and the VRID
is unique among all
Identifiers of this invention;
( M ) for each Whole Voter Registration form, the component Master Voter
Registration
form part and all component Receipt Voter Registration forms parts for the
same Whole Voter
Registration form are correlated to each other by sharing the same unique
Voter Registration
Identifier having acronym: VRID, that is directly printed, embedded, affixed
or otherwise
magnetically encoded or electronically linked and correlated to each
constituent Master and Receipt
part and also for each Whole Voter Registration form, for at least one said
POEM format for any
form of presentation, storage, retrieval, processing, authentication,
communication;
( N ) each Receipt Voter Registration form is manufactured to be easily
distinguishable from
the Master Voter Registration form using any combination of word markings:
Receipt or Official
Receipt and symbols in at least one Languages, using zero, one or a plurality
of different colors,
different textures, or different materials, different physical, electronic,
electromagnetic, or optical
representation, or any other form of visual, audio or tactile representation
or markings that serves to
noticeably differentiate and identify each Receipt Voter Registration form so
as to be distinguished
from every Master Voter Registration form - and may optionally include
printing, affixing,
attaching, linking, correlating or embedding zero, one or a plurality of
Security Elements
consistently to a specific area for each part of each Voter Registration
Master and Receipt form
parts;
( O ) each Whole Voter Registration form and each Master part and each Receipt
part is
comprised of zero, one or a plurality of portions, with at least one portion
containing voting session
name, voting session type, Voter Registration Identifier having acronym VRID,
at least one portion
for recording Voter identification, at least one portion for recording the
Voters legal names, zero,
one or a plurality of portions for recording the Voter signature, at least one
portion for recording the
date of Registration form completion, zero, one or a plurality of portions to
record the preferred
Languages of the Voter which may used with or in lieu of the Voter Language
Selection form;
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( P ) each Voter Registration form is allocated zero, one or a plurality of
portions for Voters
or Officials to Mark and record information elements for any number of: (i)
personal Identifiers, (ii)
Official defined PassWords, (iii) Voter defined PassWords, (iv) printed names,
(v) Official
signatures,
(vi) Voter signatures (vii) date information, (viii) Proxy assignments
information,
(ix) Proxy signatures, (x) location information (xi) contact information,
(xii) Voter alternative addresses, (xiii) Proxy contact information,
(xiv) Voter or Proxy: (a) telephone numbers, (b) cell phone or mobile phone
numbers,
(c) Internet telephone contact numbers, (d) electronic mail addresses,
(e) Internet webpages for (i) online dialogue or (ii) to leave messages,
(f) interactive television contact addresses,
(g) work, home or personal Internet Service Provider allocated electronic
address,
(h) zero, one or a plurality of other contact methods information;
( Q ) at least one portion is assigned to zero, one or a plurality of Voter
Permanent Address
Identifier having acronym:VPAID with zero, one or a plurality of portions for
additional physical
address information ¨ whereby each Voter Permanent Address Identifier is
unique among all
VPAIDs and among all Identifiers of this invention, yet any VPAID is not
unique among Voters as
several Voters may reside at the same VPAID address;
( R ) each Potential Voter is correlated to zero, one or a plurality of VPAID
of prior step Q;
( S ) at least one portion is assigned to zero, one or a plurality of Voter
Mailing Address
Identifier having acronym:VMAID with at least one portion for additional
physical address
information elements ¨ whereby each Voter Mailing Address Identifier is unique
among all
VMAIDs and among all Identifiers of this invention, yet any VMAID is not
unique among Voters
as many Voters may share a same common address;
( T ) each Potential Voter is correlated to zero, one or a plurality of Voter
Mailing Address
Identifiers;
( U ) adding zero, one or a plurality of additional portions which are
provided by Officials
for zero, one or a plurality of other types of useful, relevant information;
(V) delivering physically or electronically zero, one or a plurality of Voter
Registration
forms and zero, one or a plurality of Voter Registration Data Return
Containers to zero, one or a
plurality of Eligible, Potential, or Unknown Voters;
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(W) and the further steps whereby at least one Official generates zero, one or
a plurality of
uniquely identified Voter Registration Internet WebPages and further secures
each webpage by
encoding the Internet Universal Resource Locator for each Voter Registration
webpage so as to be
obscured by encoding the assigned Voter Registration ID that is made very hard
to guess using such
methods as those to create a Ballot Voting RSID; and the further steps such
that each webpage
accepts the potential Voter input data which is error checked and then
submitted with other non-
input hidden submission data which is then correlated to the Voter
Registration ID, and then to
aforementioned Voter Registration Data and any other Voter Language Selection
data;
( X ) zero, one or a plurality of said Eligible, Potential and Unknown Voters
receive,
possibly complete and return zero, one or a plurality of Voter Registrations,
keeping at least one
Registration Receipt Document copy for themselves for processing verification
and self-
identification; and the further steps whereby ero, one or a plurality of
Potential Voters register to
vote by:
(i) properly and accurately completing their Voter Registration form,
(ii) completing and keeping zero, one or a plurality of duplicate Receipt
copys,
(iii) separating Master from Receipt copies then return delivering at least
one completed
Master Voter Registration form to Officials, either in person or by Proxy
delivery service or via a
Voter Registration Return Data Containers with any required markings according
to Voting Session
Rules ;
(iv) separating Master from Receipt copies then return delivering zero, one or
a plurality of
completed Master Voter Language Selection forms to Officials, either in person
or by Proxy
delivery service or via a Voter Registration Return Data Container s with or
without required
markings as per Voting Session Rules;
( Y ) Officials receiving zero, one or a plurality of Voter Registration forms
for validation
processing;
( Z ) The further steps and methods whereby:
( 1) at least one Official generates zero, one or a plurality of Internet
WebPages that shall
then be correlated to each submitted Voter Registration and assigned one
unique Voter Registration
ID; and
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( 2) the further steps and methods whereby for each Officially Approved Voter
Registration,
at least one Official generates a Voter Language Selection Internet webpage
and then directly
correlates each Voter Registration to the inputted Voter Language selection
and associated data;
( 3 ) and the further steps and methods whereby for each Officially Approved
Voter
Registration generate exactly one unique and privately accessible Internet web
page that is
correlated via the unique Ballot Voting RSID that is further encoded so as to
be part of the Internet
Universal Resource Locator address for the private webpage; and
( 4 ) the further steps and methods whereby each Voter can use at least one or
a plurality of
electronic devices so as to connect to the Internet, telephone, interactive
television system, or cell
phone communications systems to securely access, input, verify, validate,
review, amend, submit,
retrieve, store, record, print or save - personal information and personal
choices so as to complete:
(i) zero, one or a plurality of Voter Registrations or constituent parts
thereof,
(ii) zero, one or a plurality of Voter Language selection forms or constituent
parts
thereof;
zero, one or a plurality of Master Ballots or constituent parts thereof;
zero, one or a plurality of any other types of Documents of this invention;
(AA) at least one Official records as part of Voter Registration, zero, one or
a plurality
of portions of the Voter Language Selection information;
(AB) for zero, one or a plurality of any types of Voters, Officials correlate
zero, one or a
plurality of Languages for each Voter so as to provide Language translations
for zero, one or a
plurality of Documents of this invention, as well as to provide spoken text of
Documents for the
visually impaired;
(AC) for each physical or electronic version of the Voter Registration form,
the value of
the Voter Registration Identifier is correlated to zero, one or a plurality of
electromagnetically
detectable magnetic ink symbols and readable optical symbolic codes alpha-
numeric, barcodes or
pattern codes or holographic images as well as zero, one or a plurality of any
other type of Security
Elements;
(AD) for each Master part or Receipt part of a Voter Registration form and for
each
Voter Language Selection form that is received by Officials, at least one
Official records the
information provided using Vote Processing Devices and then at least one
Official acts to determine
whether each received Voter Registration form and whether each Voter Language
Selection form
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was properly completed, and the further steps whereby for incorrectly
completed VReg form or
VLS form submissions, the incorrectly completed form is rejected, and for
successful submissions,
the VReg form or VLS form is accepted, recorded and electronically stored; and
the further step
whereby for each correctly completed VReg forms, and for each correctly
completed and correlated
VLS form, Officials change the correlated Voter Registration Status attribute
value to TRUE for
submitted data that is accurate and verified by at least one Official; and the
further steps whereby
Officials certify zero, one or a plurality of accurately verified Voters to be
eligible to vote and then
add them to the Certified Registered Voters list; embodying a Voter
Registration, Ballot or both as a
smart card having private Identifiers and PassCodes encoded and embedded in
magnetic stripes,
holograms, micro-devices; creating and distributing a plurality of said smart
cards to each Certified
Registered Voter and to a plurality of Certified Registered Voters.
[Claim 9] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein: Officials create,
print,
distribute, receive, sort, scan, image, read, decode, analyze, interpret,
validate, authenticate, certify,
error detect, tally, store, retrieve, publish and further process zero, one or
a plurality of Whole
Ballots, whereby:
(A) each Whole Ballot is comprised of at least one part, whereby one part is
the Master
Ballot and zero, one or a plurality of Receipt Ballot parts;
(B) each Master and Receipt parts of each Whole Ballot are assigned at least
one
shared, yet unique Ballot Random Symbolic Identifier having acronym Ballot-ID
RSID, which is
prominently visible on the Whole Ballot and component Master and Receipt parts
so as to
distinguish the considered Whole Ballot and all of its component parts from
all other Whole Ballots
and those other whole Ballot component parts;
(C) each Receipt Ballot is manufactured so as to be easily distinguishable
from the
Master Ballot to the using any combination of additional word markings:
Receipt or Official
Receipt, raised symbols or Braille codes, as well as zero, one or a plurality
of different colors,
different textures, or different materials, or by applying different physical,
electronic,
electromagnetic, or optical representational format, or any other form of
representation that
noticeably differs from that which is used to manufacture the Master Ballot,
that may include zero,
one or a plurality of Security Elements and zero, one or a plurality of unique
Ballot Identifiers
correlated to the matching Master Ballot part of the same Whole Ballot;
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(D) each Whole Ballot component Master Ballot and all of the Receipt Ballots
of the
same Whole Ballot are correlated to each other by sharing the same unique
Ballot-ID RSID that is
printed, embedded or linked to each Master and Receipt Ballot part;
(E) at most one Ballot-ID RSID is created and assigned to each Whole Ballot
and
constituent parts thereof; further creating a plurality of Whole Ballots and a
plurality Ballot RSIDs
for each Voting Session;
(F) each Ballot-ID RSID is correlated to a barcode which has an encoded symbol
and
symbol value equal to the concatenated symbols correlated numeric value of the
RSID;
(G) at most, one private Ballot Voting RSID is created and assigned to each
Ballot-ID
RSID and kept hidden until the Voter is prepared to make Ballot choices and
cast said Ballot;
(H) at most one Official PassCode RSID is correlated to each Ballot-ID RSID or
each
Ballot Voting RSID for the purpose of providing additional security for Vote
Casting for each
Whole Ballot Master part;
(I) each Voter creates zero, one or a plurality of Voter PassWords which are
then
correlated to each Ballot RSID they have used to vote with, for the purpose of
providing additional
security for Vote Casting for Ballot Master part;
(J) each Voter PassWord is correlated to one Whole Ballot and one correlated
Master
Ballot, and to each correlated Receipt Ballot;
(K) for each Official PassCode is kept hidden from view by a removable
covering or
openable Container which is constructed in such a way that the only way for
any PassCode to be
viewable will automatically create evidence of having been revealed, thereby
indicating the Ballot
or other Document may be already used or subject to unauthorized copying or
future use;
(L) for each Ballot PassCode, zero, one or a plurality of Security Elements
may be
printed, assigned, linked, correlated or embedded, for each correlated Whole
Ballot and each
correlated Master and Receipt constituent part by at least one Official,
Official Agent or Official
Device;
(M) zero, one or a plurality of Ballot PassCodes and zero, one or a plurality
of Voter
Personal Security Items: Voter signature, Voter initials, Voter PassWords or
phrases, Voter audio,
video, graphics, glyphs, Personal Security Numbers and patterns are recorded
and correlated by at
least one Official or Official Agent or Official Device, either manually or
using computers running
software programs to generate at least one compatible POEM format types of:
physically, optically,
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electronically, electromagnetically, chemically or structurally scannable:
identification marker
codes, selection choices, data fields, symbolic codes, barcodes, barcode
values, electromagnetic
codes associated with, attached to, affixed upon, or embedded within any
portion of each Ballot and
Ballot part;
(N) for every Ballot, Officials allocate portions for Voters to Mark and
record
information such that there are zero, one or a plurality of portions for:
(i) selecting zero, one or a plurality of candidates, (ii) selecting zero, one
or a plurality of
proposals,
(iii) elements of voting information, (iv) Security Elements, (v) Ballot
processing markings;
(O) each Master Ballot part and each correlated Receipt Ballot part is
subdivided into,
and comprised of zero, one or a plurality of portions:
(i) at least one Election Info portions - these portions provide information
to enable the
Voter to independently make informed decisions for voting:
(i.1) at most one unique Voting Session Identifier, and zero, one or a
plurality of correlated
Voting Session Details Identifiers which may be distinctly unique, or,
optionally merged and
encoded, so as to be correlated zero, one or a plurality of optically,
electronically or
electromagnetically scannable identification marker codes or other symbolic
codes, optical
barcodes, or electromagnetic codes correlated, attached or embedded to each
Voting Ballot, so as to
facilitate automated processing of said Ballot, and for a plurality of Ballots
and Ballot parts;
(i.2) correlating zero, one or a plurality of correlated human-readable
symbolic characters,
graphical symbols, alphabetic or numeric character symbols that are correlated
to zero, one or a
plurality of: Voting Session Identifiers, Voting Session Detail Identifiers,
correlated reading
Templates and marker codes;
(i.3) at least one portion defining the scope of Ballot application;
(i.4) at least one portion identifying the type of Ballot;
(i.5) at least one portion of instructions for completing the Ballot;
(ii) at least one Vote Selection portion - this portion provides information
to enable the
Voter to independently make clearly informed decisions regarding the Ballot
selection options by
providing specific information whereby: :
(ii.1) the title of political position which may optionally be repeated and
also include a
Candidate Position Identifier which may be further correlated to zero, one or
a plurality of
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scannable barcodes, electromagnetic or optical codes and materials, or other
symbolic Identifiers
embedded or attached to each Voting Ballot;
(ii.2) at least one portion for a description of the voting region the Ballot
is correlated to
zero, one or a plurality of region data elements: (a) Voting Region NAME, (b)
Voting Region
Identifier, (c) Poll Stations Identifier, that may optionally be repeated and
each are further correlated
to any combinations of zero, one or a plurality of: scannable marker position
codes, correlated
barcodes, correlated RSIDs, QR codes, any symbolic codes or markings and
correlated values so as
to facilitate automated data processing for valid, non-erroneous data and for
error processing:error
detection, error identification, error reporting, error specification, error
localization, error position
locating, error marking, error correction, error data recovery, false error
detection rejection;
(ii.3) at least one portion for Voting Information: (a) how many candidates to
select,
and (b) how to properly select the candidates of choice;
(ii.4) at least one portion for Candidates and for at least one portion for
Proposals:
(a) zero, one or a plurality of candidate Identifiers and descriptions to
reduce selection
errors;
(b) optional descriptions of each candidate's political party affiliation;
(c) zero, one or a plurality of proposals Identifiers and correlated
descriptions of
proposals;
(d) at least one portion for candidates selection and for at least one portion
for proposal
selection area which contains at least designated vote marking area for each
candidate or each
proposal that is used to receive a Voter marking of the Voter's choice of
candidates and proposals,
so that each vote marking area is placed to clearly correlate to data of prior
steps (a) to (c); and
zero, one or a plurality of Candidate Write-In areas and zero, one or a
plurality of proposal Write-In
areas so that each Write-In area is placed to clearly correlate to data of
prior steps (a) to (c);
(e) a plurality of data element location-position coordinates for each vote
marking area
and each Write-In area of prior step (d), allocating and assigning zero, one
or a plurality of location-
position coordinates portion of the Ballot for correlating data elements
therein, such that the
location-position coordinates are derived from pre-defined vertical and
horizontal areas and
correlated reading Templates which are used independently or in conjunction
with scan alignment
markings and scan position markings to isolate and uniquely identify the
position of all data
elements within the Ballot Document, and is used to facilitate the extraction
of data from the Ballot
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by deriving and correlating the identity of each data element on the Ballot to
the scanned value
found at the coordinates of each correlated data element;
(f) zero, one or a plurality of Voter Write-In areas having zero, one or a
plurality of sub-
areas to write or print the Voters alternative preferred Candidates given
legal names and optionally
the name of zero, one or a plurality of Groups or Political Partys and zero,
one or a plurality of
alternative Proposals or Proposal Identifiers that are the Voter's preferred
choices; and further steps
and methods of having at least one area for each Voter write/print in the
legal name of a candidate
that is to be used to Mark the Voter selection that is further correlated to
each correlated Voter
written or printed Candidate legal names, Group or Political Party and
Proposals or Proposal
Identifiers;
(iii) at least one Ballot ID portion ¨ the Ballot identification area
comprising of, but not
limited to :
(iii.1) embedding, correlating and associating zero, one or a plurality of
Security
Elements, to be inextricably linked to the Ballot, for the purpose of
authenticating the Ballot for the
Voting Session;
(iii.2) at least one Ballot Identifier - whereby each Master and Receipt
Ballots that
comprise a Whole Ballot are correlated to each other, and is uniquely
identifiable among all other
Master Ballots and all other Receipt Ballots of a Voting Session; and further
step and methods that
each Ballot Identifier is assigned at least one Random Symbolic Identifier
referred to as the Ballot-
ID RSID; and the further step of methods by which each Ballot-ID RSID may be
further encoded
and correlated to a unique barcode symbol having a derived numeric value or
symbolic string value
equivalent to the correlated RSID derived numeric value or symbolic string
value; and the further
step of validating the Ballot is authentic and usable by submitting the Ballot-
ID RSID to query the
Official records of all valid Ballot-ID RSIDs; and the further step of zero,
one or a plurality of
Voters casting a Master Ballot using at least one Ballot-ID RSID;
(iii.3) at most one Ballot Voting RSID - whereby each Whole Ballot and
constituent
Master and Receipt parts are assigned at most one private, hidden RSID that is
revealed at the time
of voting so as to enable the Ballot to be authenticated and certified for
scanning, recording and
tallying the Voter selected choices; and the further step that each Ballot
Voting RSID may be
further encoded and correlated to a unique barcode symbol having a derived
numeric value or
symbolic string value equivalent to the correlated RSID's derived numeric
value or symbolic string
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value; and the further methods of validating the Ballot is authentic and
usable by submitting the
Ballot Voting RSID to query the Official records of all valid Ballot Voting
RSIDs; and the further
step of zero, one or a plurality of Voters casting zero, one or a plurality of
Master Ballots each
having at least one Ballot Voting RSID;
(iii.4) at most one Ballot PassCode that is used in several ways to:
(a) enable the Ballot-ID RSID or Ballot Voting RSID to be use for voting; and,
(b) to prevent unauthorized access to electronic reporting of the Ballot
Selections or any
other information associated with a Ballot Voting RSID or Ballot-ID RSID;
(c) whereby the Voting PassCode RSID may be optionally hidden to enable Ballot
Validation using the Ballot-ID RSID without risking enabling of the Ballot-ID
RSID to be used for
Voting or access to Voter information;
(d) whereby the Ballot PassCode RSID is constructed to be sufficiently
different in length
and composition so as to not be easily confused with the Ballot Voting RSID;
(iv) at least one Limits of Use portion ¨ defines any limitations of the
Ballot and is
comprised of data elements:
(iv.1) at most one Expiry Date, Time - is the final date and time after which
the Ballot is no
longer useful for the Voting Session;
(iv.2) zero, one or a plurality of Due Dates and Due Times for receiving by
Officials for
tallying;
(v) a plurality of Alignment Marks portions - whereby for zero, one or a
plurality of
Whole, Master, or Receipt Ballots and any Documents, forms or Containers of
this invention may
each include zero, one or a plurality of:
(v.1) alignment Marks, alignment graphics, electronic encoding, magnetic
fields, and any
form of index Identifiers for accurate orientation of optical, magnetic,
electronic scanning devices
so as to facilitate the accurate scanning of data on any Ballot in reasonable
condition; and to further
provide location coordinates for any data elements therein;
(v.2) and the further steps for printed Ballots or any other printed Documents
of this
invention, of including darkened, highlighted or cut-away corners or notched
edges so as to enable
rapid sorting, identical orientation for scanning or filing;
(v.3) a plurality of location-position Marks, pre-defined data field
coordinates, pre-
defined data field reading Templates;
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(vi) at most one Voter Signature Portions ¨ zero, one or a plurality of spaces
allocated
for the Voter to place their personal signature Mark or private Voter PassWord
directly upon, or
otherwise correlated to, zero, one or a plurality of their Master Ballots and
zero, one or a plurality of
their Receipt Ballots so as to provide further means of authentication and
Ballot tamper proofing;
(vii) at most one Voter Signature Date portions ¨ zero, one or a plurality of
spaces
allocated for the Voter to write or print the date that they signed, per (vi)
above, their Ballot and
Ballot Receipt;
(O) encapsulating zero, one or a plurality of Container or removable covers
which may
be applied to a Master Ballot or any other Document such that the cover
obscures essential, private
data and may also reveal necessary to know information, by methods comprising
of:
(i) completely obscured Ballot Voting RSID of prior step N(iii.3) that is
within a sealed
Sending Ballot Data Container (physical or electronic), or,
(ii) Ballot-ID RSID of prior step N(iii.2) that is visible through a viewing
window of the
sealed Sending Ballot Data Container, so the partial Whole Ballot RSID
provides enough data for
verification, with disclosing the Voting Ballot RSID, or,
(iii) visible Ballot-ID RSID paired with a completely obscured Official
created Ballot
PassCode RSID that can only be made visible by the detectable removal of a
temporary cover or by
controlled access to an electronic presentation;
(iv) zero, one or a plurality of visible Ballot Validation RSIDs are used to
validate the
Ballot is genuine, and that is also correlated with a hidden Ballot Voting
RSID and a hidden Ballot
PassCode RSID which are revealed at Ballot casting by removing the temporary
covers;
(P) Officials enable methods for rapid automated optical scanning, electro-
magnetic
field processing, or high speed photographic picture taking and data analysis -
for zero, one or a
plurality of Documents of this invention; and for each physically printed or
optically-visually
rendered or electronically or electromagnetically rendered Whole Ballot and
other Documents of
this invention, there are zero, one or a plurality of electronic processing
scanning markings used for
marking boundaries of scannable data areas of detection within portions of
Voter data areas and
Officials data areas so as to identify all the scannable data areas used for
scanning, imaging,
enhancing, photographing, enhancing, reading and decoding by use of:
(i) data start markers, (ii) data stop markers, (iii) combined data start/stop
markers,
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(iv) optical alignment (skew) detection markings to ensure proper optical
scanning
detection for alignment error detection, alignment error measurement,
alignment error specification,
alignment error messaging, alignment error correction, alignment error
rejection, for zero, one or a
plurality of portions of zero, one or a plurality of physical, optical or
structural Documents or
physical, optical or structural data Containers of this invention;
(v) Officials and Official Agents employ zero, one or a plurality of computers
running
software programs to provide zero, one or a plurality of data processing steps
and methods to:
automatically provide data extraction, alignment measurement, data alignment
correction, data
orientation measurement, data orientation correction ¨ for each of a plurality
of Documents and for
each portion of zero, one or a plurality of portions of each type of Document;
(Q) Officials consistently Mark, shape, or cut zero, one or a plurality of
corners of each
Master Ballot part, and optionally each Receipt Ballot part, so as to enable a
consistent method to
orient, identify and sort to assist in sorting, separating, organizing,
grouping, scanning, counting,
tallying by zero, one or a plurality of humans and any combinations of zero,
one or a plurality of
Vote Processing Devices;
(R) and the further steps whereby Officials use the Ballot Voting RSID, Ballot-
ID
RSID in whole or in part, as a derivable, integral component to encode or
enable tracing or
correlation of zero, one or a plurality of and any types of: data files,
Internet WebPages, data
storages, data transmissions, Documents, Ballots, Registration forms, data
Containers, data sets,
persons, communications, or Objects of this invention.
[Claim 101 The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein at least one
Official:
(A) encapsulates zero, one or a plurality of Whole Ballots and each Whole
Ballots
correlated constituent components (Master, Receipts) so as to facilitate zero,
one or a plurality of
claims or processes of this invention while also ensuring Ballot contents
security;
(B) associates, correlates, Marks, attaches or embeds zero, one or a plurality
of Security
Elements, to zero, one or a plurality of encapsulating Containers of prior
step (A);
(C) associates, correlates, Marks, attaches or embeds zero, one or a plurality
of RSID, to
zero, one or a plurality of encapsulating Containers of prior step (A);
(D) associates, correlates, Marks, attaches or embeds zero, one or a plurality
of barcodes
to zero, one or a plurality of encapsulating Containers of prior step (A);
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(E) correlates, records and stores for each of a plurality of said
encapsulated Ballots of
prior steps (A) to each of the Security Elements of steps (B), (C), (D), (E);
(F) further correlates each of a plurality of unique Registered Voter
Identifiers having
acronym: RVIDs, and private Voter RSIDs, to zero, one or a plurality of
Ballots and Security
Elements of prior steps (A) to (E);
(G) and the further steps and methods whereby zero, one or a plurality of
Officials provide
zero, one or a plurality of, and any types of Voters and Officials with the
means, materials, options
and methods so as to enable zero, one or a plurality of, and any types of
Voters, zero, one or a
plurality of Officials, to Mark on the outside or External View of each Return
Data Container with
zero, one or a plurality of unique Return Data Container Security Elements,
zero, one or a plurality
of Return Voter-ID RSID Barcodes, and zero, one or a plurality of correlated
Return Data Container
Identifier symbols that are correlated to their respective Return Data
Container Security Elements,
zero, one or a plurality of Return Data Container Identifier Verification
Validation text, numbers, or
symbols and any combination of text, numbers and symbols;
(H) and the further steps and methods whereby zero, one or a plurality of
Officials provide
zero, one or a plurality of, and any types of Voters to:
(i) Mark and correlate their personal signature or any other private
identifying information
(such as: social security number, private PassWord ) and zero, one or a
plurality of Security
Elements, Ballot RSIDs, Ballot PassCodes to be hidden from visibility and
contained on the inside
of zero, one or a plurality of, and any type (paper, electronic, optical,
electromagnetic) of Sending
Data Containers and type of Return Data Containers, Registration Forms, Return
Envelopes,
Master Ballot Return Envelopes, Electronic Data Containers;
(ii) and the further steps whereby zero, one or a plurality of Eligible Voters
apply the
methods of step (G) to actively Mark, on the outside or External View of each
Return Data
Container: Master Ballot Return paper Envelopes, Receipt Voter Registration
Electronic Data
Container, Document Return Envelopes, Forms Return Envelopes, Ballot Return
Envelopes, with:
(i) zero, one or a plurality of unique Return Data Container RSID Barcodes;
(ii) zero, one or a plurality of Return Data Container RSID symbols that are
correlated to the
alpha-numeric value of the Return Data Container RSID Barcodes;
(I) and the further steps and methods of enclosing, attaching or correlating:
(i) zero, one or a plurality of election Documents, Voter Registration Master
parts,
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Voter Registration Receipt parts, Master Ballots, Receipt Ballots;
(J) and the further steps and methods of correlating zero, one or a plurality
of Whole
Ballot Voting RSIDs, Voter Registration RSIDs of this invention, and any
correlated symbols,
numeric and alpha-numeric values thereof, to be further correlated to zero,
one or a plurality of
Barcodes of used for the Whole Ballot RSID Barcode, Ballot PassCode, Master
Ballot part RSID
Barcode, Receipt Ballot part RSID Barcode, Voter Registration RSID Barcode,
Voter PassCode ,
and for zero, one or a plurality of: Data Containers Whole Ballot Data
Containers, Ballot Return
Data Containers, Master Ballot Return Data Containers, Receipt Ballot Return
Data Containers,
Voter Registration Return Containers and for each associated Data Container
RSIDs and correlated
Data Container Barcodes and for each other types of Data Container Marking
Symbols and their
respective correlated values;
(K) and the further steps and methods whereby zero, one or a plurality of
Voters, and
zero, one or a plurality of Voter Proxies actively sends, transmits, or
delivers, or, conveys:
(i) zero, one or a plurality of Master Ballots,
(ii) zero, one or a plurality of Receipt Ballots,
(iii) zero, one or a plurality of Documents, Containers, forms, events,
communications,
processes and data of this invention;
(iv) zero, one or a plurality of any type of Data Containers of this invention
- to zero, one
or a plurality of Officials, Official Agents, Official Voting Session Devices,
and to zero, one or a
plurality of other interested persons or legal entities;
(L) whereby zero, one or a plurality of Officials, Official Agents, Officials
subordinate
electronic devices and manual methods to actively send, transmit, or deliver
at least one Whole
Ballots and component Master part and at least one Receipt parts, and at least
one correlated, pre-
marked Ballot Data Return Container of steps ( A ) to ( G ), to each of a
plurality of Certified,
Registered Voters and Proxy-Voters;
(M) and the further steps and methods whereby zero, one or a plurality of
Officials,
Official Agents, employ zero, one or a plurality of Officials subordinate
electronic devices to
passively make available, and to actively send, transmit, or deliver zero, one
or a plurality of, and
any Ballots, Documents, Forms, Data Containers, telephone transmissions,
Internet web-pages,
Internet Electronic Mails, Fax or Facsimiles, interactive television
transmissions, amendments, error
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processes and messages to zero, one or a plurality of interested parties :
Voters, News Media,
Political Candidates, Government Officials, Voting Session Officials;
(N) and the further steps of recording or amending zero, one or a plurality of
the
important, relevant data associated with zero, one or a plurality of
attributes associated with each
type of Voter, in correlation with, or independent of, each type of crucial
Voting Document : each
Whole Ballot, Master Ballot, Receipt Ballot, each Whole Registration Form,
Master Registration
Form, Receipt Registration form, each Language Selection Whole form, Language
Selection
Master form, Language Selection Receipt form, and for a plurality of
Documents, for each type of
Documents. and also for each of a plurality of Data Containers and Data Return
Containers as well
as for all correlated data therof.
[Claim 11] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein: zero, one or a
plurality
of Voters and zero, one or a plurality of Officials, Official Agents and
Official Devices:
(A) act to determine the usefulness and validity of zero, one or a plurality
of:
Ballots, Registration forms, other Documents or Data Containers, or data
records or data
transmissions by correlating: zero, one or a plurality of Security Elements
and zero, one or a
plurality of non-Security Element portions, Election Information portion, Due
Date portion, Due
Time portion), and comparing to Official records utilizing zero, one or a
plurality of Vote
Processing Devices - to transmit and receive information, as well as to
provide data for the
confirmation, rejection, or error messages as to the validity of each and for
a plurality of
Documents, data Containers, communications and data information of this
invention;
(B) before revealing a Ballot Voting RSID or PassCode RSID, and before marking
or casting their Ballots, determining whether zero, one or a plurality of
Whole Ballots or constituent
parts were already used to Vote, by comparing the current Ballot to Official
data sources manually
or electronically;
(C) and the further steps that if the Ballot is confirmed as not previously
having been used to
vote, zero, one or a plurality of Voters may exchange, zero, one or a
plurality of times, zero, one or
a plurality of Whole Ballots they possess for other zero, one or a plurality
of similar Whole Ballots
possessed by zero, one or a plurality of other trusted Voters, Eligible
Voters, Proxy Voters or
exchange with zero, one or a plurality of Voting Session Officials or their
designated Official
Agents;
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(D) and the further step whereby the Voter optionally does not open the sealed
or encrypted
Whole Ballot Container to verify the validity of the Ballot ;
(E) and the further steps and methods whereby each the Voter does use zero,
one or a
plurality of Ballot Validation RSIDs in whole or in part , zero, one or a
plurality of Ballot
Validation PassCodes 7 and other Ballot information and security elements used
to verify Ballot
usability and validity;
(F) and the further steps and methods whereby each Ballot Validation RSID and
zero,
one or a plurality of correlated Ballot Validation PassCodes or Sending Ballot
Container ID are used
to authenticate and verify exactly one Whole Ballot Container and zero, one or
a plurality of Whole
Ballot Voting RSIDs within the correlated Whole Ballot Container, without
revealing any Whole
Ballot Voting RSID to anyone handing or exchanging zero, one or a plurality of
Whole Ballot
Containers, until such time a Whole Ballot Container is opened at least one
Whole, Master, or
Receipt Ballot Voting RSID are revealed and further authenticated in
correlation with zero, one or a
plurality of associated Ballot Validation RSID and any other information
associated with the Whole
Ballots or Whole Ballot Container from which the Whole Ballot was extracted;
(G) and the further steps of zero, one or a plurality of Voters and zero, one
or a
plurality of Officials and zero, one or a plurality of other Interested
Parties validating zero, one or a
plurality of:
(i) Voting Ballot RSIDs in whole or in part,
(ii) Voting Ballots correlated Ballot PassCode RSIDs - by comparing to
Official records
using zero, one or a plurality of voting, Registrations and communications
methods;
(H) and the further steps and methods whereby if it is determined that a
Ballot Voting
RSID has not been used to vote, then zero, one or a plurality of Eligible,
Registered Voter then
completes zero, one or a plurality of Whole Ballots whereby each Voter does
zero, one or a plurality
of combinations of the following sub-steps (a),(b),(c) whereby for sub-step:
(a)(i) chooses zero, one or a plurality of Official, pre-defined Candidates,
Political Partys;
and
(a)(ii) chooses zero, one or a plurality of Official pre-defined Proposals on
their Master
Ballot by marking the Master part of the Whole Ballot, whereby the Mark may be
an enclosing
circle or oval, X, x, checkmark glyph, filled in circle or oval, filled in
rectangle, line, or other style
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of Mark or line or graphic or glyph made in any said POEM format as per Rules
of the Voting
Session;
(a.iii) each active Voter manually or automatically via Voting Devices
creating a
duplicate Mark on each Receipt part of each correlated Whole Ballot with the
same correlated
RSID;
(b.i) giving each Voter, and a plurality of Voters the option to manually
print or Write-In,
or use a typing device or electronic device interface to type in on the
Voter's Master part of their
Whole Ballot, the Voter's choice of zero, one or a plurality of unofficial
Candidate names,
unofficial Political Party and Group names, and zero, one or a plurality of
unofficial Proposals and
Proposal Identifiers;
(b.ii) whereby zero, one or a plurality of Voters then chooses zero, one or a
plurality of
their newly printed-written-in unofficial Candidates, zero, one or a plurality
of unofficial Groups
and Political partys and zero, one or a plurality of their newly printer-
written-in unofficial Proposals
and Proposal Identifiers of sub-step (b.i) by marking the Master part of the
Whole Ballot, whereby
the Mark may be an enclosing circle or oval, X, x, checkmark, filled in circle
or oval, filled in
rectangle, line, or any other style of Mark or line or graphic made in at
least one POEM format:
physical, optical, electronic, electromagnetic, chemical, structural as per
Rules of the Voting
Session;
(b.iii) each active Voter manually or automatically via Voting Devices
creating a
duplicate entry on each Receipt part of the Whole Ballot that has the same
identical, correlated
RSID, and also for a plurality of other Master-Receipt parts of every other
correlated Whole Ballots
having different Ballot RSIDs, each completed separately by a plurality of
Voters;
(c) a plurality of Voters each creating zero, one or a plurality of Voter
Personal Security
Item Mark, correlating their personal signature, initials, graphic symbols, or
other private
identifying information of a Voter Private PassWord or Private Security Number
or symbols
patterns to zero, one or a plurality of Voter Registration Documents,
correlated RSIDs and
PassCodes, Voter Proxy Assign Documents, correlated RSIDs and PassCodes, Voter
Contact
Update Documents, correlated RSIDs and PassCodes, Voter Error Investigation
Documents,
correlated RSIDs and PassCodes, Master Ballots Documents, correlated RSIDs and
PassCodes and
to zero, one or a plurality of correlated Receipt Documents, correlated RSIDs
and PassCodes of the
aforesaid Documents as well as to each of the electronic-optical or physical
renderings thereof;
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(d) and the further steps and methods whereby zero, one or a plurality of
Voters Mark
and correlate the date and time of completion to zero, one or a plurality of
Master Ballots and for
zero, one or a plurality of correlated Ballot RSIDs and correlated Receipt
parts of each Whole
Ballots;
(e) and the further steps whereby a plurality of Voters Mark and correlate
each Master
Ballot they possess to each correlated Receipt Ballot, by marking each with
zero, one or a plurality
of:
(e.i) Voter personal signatures Voter Private PassWord, Voter personal
initials, Voter
glyphs or graphics, Voter Private Security Numbers or number patterns;
(e.ii) and the further steps and methods whereby for a plurality of Ballots, a
plurality of
Voters recording and storing data of the Ballot being signed, cast, or signed
and cast; zero, one or a
plurality of Voters marking and correlating the transaction identifier,
transaction signature data,
date, time and location where the Ballot was signed or cast, or signed and
cast, along with any
identifying information for zero, one or a plurality of personal devices and
Official devices that is
then correlated to zero, one or a plurality of Master Ballots and all
correlated Ballot Receipts;
(e.iii) the step whereby a plurality of Voters keep zero, one or a plurality
of Receipt
Ballots which are correlated to the completed Master Ballot part for zero, one
or a plurality of
Whole Ballots assigned to them.
(Claim 12] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein at least one
Official,
Official Agent or Official Voting Device or combination thereof:
(A) receives zero, one or a plurality of Ballots, Voter Registration forms,
Language
selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data Containers, Receipts, Objects, data
items or transmissions
and Voter Personal Security Items of this invention - from at least one type
of Voter, and for zero,
one or a plurality of Voters;
(B) records notes for each Voter submission: the dates, times, and any other
relevant
information along with data about each and all received Ballots, Voter
Registration forms,
Language selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data Containers, Receipts,
Objects, data items,
transmissions and Voter Personal Security Items, then chooses to either:
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(C) accepting for processing zero, one or a plurality of Ballots, Voter
Registration forms,
Language selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data Containers, Receipts,
Objects, data items or
transmissions of this invention, which do have a valid, usable RSID, or,
(D) refusing to accept for processing zero, one or a plurality of Ballots,
Voter
Registration forms, Language selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data
Containers, Receipts, Objects,
data items or transmissions of this invention, which do not have a valid,
usable RSID, or,
(E) accepting and segregating zero, one or a plurality of items or events or
processing
actions or transmissions of this invention, which do have a valid, but
duplicate RSID - and then said
Officials, Official Agents, Official Devices reviews the authenticity of a
plurality of Objects, data
items or transmissions, and then acting to certify and restore the valid
Objects, data items or
transmissions to relevant processing, then promptly and accurately amends all
related records ;
(F) and for all instances of a valid RSID then processing all timely received
Ballots,
Voter Registration forms, Language selection forms, Ballot envelopes, data
Containers, Receipts,
Objects, data items, amendments, events, error processing or transmissions of
this invention which
are validated and certified by First acquiring, recording and storing an image
of the entire Ballot,
form, Container, Receipt, then for the said image, enhancing, scaling and
rendering said image for
scanning the associated RSID symbols and the RSID barcode by selecting an
appropriate Document
scanning Template, or a series of scanning Templates, designed to isolate
desired data fields for data
capture and for imaging, extracting the correlated values of said data fields
by employing optical
character recognition software and-intelligent character reading software for
extracting, reading and
decoding the extracted data fields values so as to compare to the
corresponding Official records of
valid RSID values previously created, recorded and stored, - whereby for
matching RSID values
that are deemed valid :
(i) processing zero, one or a plurality of each said Document and Document
type: :
Voter Registration form, Language selection form, Proxy Registration, Ballots,
Error Complaints
and of each Document part Document Container, Data Container image, Template,
Object, data
item, message, signal, data transmission and data reception whereby for each
that is deemed valid
for scanning;
(ii) scanning each of the aforesaid of preceding item (i) which has a valid
RSID;
extracting zero, one or a plurality of: RSID's, PassCodes, Voter information
items, Voter Personal
Security Items, Official data elements, Official Security Elements, alignment
Marks and scan zone
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coordinate Marks which are then recorded, correlated, analyzed, error checked,
authenticated or
rejected, each tallied, stored; or,
(iii) scan each Ballot that is deemed having a valid RSID, extracting zero,
one or a
plurality of: Voter Selections, Voter Write-In choices, Voter Personal
Security Items, Official data
elements, Security Elements, alignment Marks and scan zone coordinate Marks
from zero, one or a
plurality of required portions of the Ballot which are recorded, analyzed,
error checked,
authenticated or rejected, tallied, securely and immutably stored, followed by
computers running
programs designed to optimize data storage and data retrieval;
(iv) scan each Container that is deemed having a valid RSID, extracting zero,
one or a
plurality of: Jurisdiction and sub-Jurisdiction Identifiers, Nation, State and
Region Identifiers, Area
Identifiers, Zone Identifiers, Polling Station Identifiers, Submission Date,
Time and Location
Identifiers, Submitters Identifiers, Receiving Officials Identifiers,
Submitting and Receiving Device
Identifiers, Submitting and Receiving Network Identifiers, Container
Identifiers and Container
Security Items, Container data elements, Security Elements, alignment Marks
and scan zone
coordinate Marks from zero, one or a plurality of required portions of the
Container which are
recorded, analyzed, error checked, authenticated or rejected, tallied,
securely and immutably stored,
followed by computers running programs designed to optimize data storage and
data retrieval.
[Claim 13] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1, the steps and methods
for
machine reading of: Ballots, Voter Registration forms, Voter-Proxy Language
Registration forms,
any types of Receipt Documents and any types of marked Containers and any
other Objects of this
invention - whereby the aforesaid are manifested in least one POEM format
whereby:
(A) A plurality of Voters and a plurality of Proxy Voters each submits zero,
one or a
plurality of Documents, from each of the aforesaid Document group types, in
least one POEM
format and any types of marked Containers in least one POEM format to
Officials by enclosing
zero, one or a plurality of any types of said Documents in zero, one or a
plurality of POEM format
Containers having zero, one or a plurality of unique machine-readable
Identifiers of:
(1)(i) Container Identifiers, (ii) Jurisdictional Identifiers, (iii) Voting
Session Identifiers,
(iv) Voter Identifiers, (v) submitted date-stamps or date-time-stamps
markings;
(vi) Container Contents Identifier or markings; and
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(2) wherein for each Official designated Identifier: Container, Jurisdiction,
Voting
Session, Voter, Container Contents shall also include: (a) one correlated
binary value,
(b) at least one correlated barcode value, (c) at most a single two-
dimensional bar code
graphics, (d) whereas the Container Contents identification markings may be a
simple choice
selection marking with an X, x or check-Mark, solid fill-in box, or Identifier
markings; and
(3) the aforesaid Identifiers, markings, barcodes and values shall also have a
prescribed
font, symbolic representations of characters, symbols, numbers, alphanumeric
characters, non-
alphanumeric characters, graphical drawings, graphical icons that are
represented accurately in any
format: physical, optical, electronic, magnetic, electromagnetic, chemical,
structural , and are
capable of data capture, optical recognition processing, intelligent character
recogniton, data inter-
format conversion, and data storage in zero, one or a plurality of said POEM
format - or in any
combination of said formats; and
(4) furthermore the aforesaid Identifier criteria shall include and apply to
zero, one or a
plurality of correlated Official Security Elements and zero, one or a
plurality of Voter Personal
Security Items thereof;
(B) and whereby each type of POEM format Container is further markable for
recording
markings thereon of the Officially Received date-time-stamp markings, and for
of zero, one or a
plurality of Official processing notes;
(C) and further steps comprising of:
(1) for each and every Container, reading each type of POEM format Container
markings including reading all of the machine readable Identifiers comprised
of: zero, one or a
plurality of Container Identifiers, zero, one or a plurality of Jurisdictional
Identifiers, zero, one or a
plurality of Voting Session Identifiers, zero, one or a plurality of Voter
Identifiers, zero, one or a
plurality of Official Security Elements, zero, one or a plurality of Voter
Personal Security Items,
zero, one or a plurality of Container Content markings, zero, one or a
plurality of Delivery-
Submission date-stamp or date-time-stamp markings;
(2) wherein for each physical or EMO Container that has a machine readable
Container,
Jurisdiction, Voting Session, Voter, Delivery-Submission date-stamp, Delivery-
Submission date-
time-stamp, Official Security Elements, Voter Personal Security Items,
Container Contents
Identifier - said method of decoding each machine readable Container,
Jurisdiction, Voting Session,
Voter, Delivery-Submission DateTimestamp, Delivery-Submission date-time-stamp,
Official
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Security Elements, Voter Personal Security Items, Container Contents
Identifier read from each in
POEM format Container thereof;
(3) and said selecting a Template includes selecting the Template, or a series
of
sequentially applied of Templates that are used for decoding and therefore are
responsive to the
physical or EMO Container, Jurisdiction, Voting Session, Voter, Delivery-
Submission date-stamp,
Delivery-Submission date-time-stamp, Official Security Elements, Voter
Personal Security Items, in
POEM format Container Contents Identifier and markings thereof POEM format
Container;
(4) said selecting an aforesaid responsive Template includes selecting the
Template
responsive to physically, electronically, optically, electromagnetically
capturing, revealing,
rendering and displaying zero, one or a plurality of encoded and decoded
Identifiers or markings for
each of a plurality of POEM format Containers and correlated data fields of:
Jurisdiction, Voting
Session, Voter, Delivery-Submission date-stamp, Delivery-Submission date-time-
stamp, Official
Security Elements, Voter Personal Security Items, Container Contents
Identifiers and markings that
are read from each POEM format Container, so as to determine from the
aforesaid markings and
Identifiers of the submitted POEM format Container the correlated:
Jurisdiction, Voting Session,
Voter and Official Security Elements are valid for the current voting session
and the recipient
Jurisdiction, and whether the POEM format Container Contents therein were
submitted or received
within the date-time period allowed for Official processing;
(5) marking a plurality of physical Containers and a plurality of EMO
Containers as
having a valid Container Identifier, if said Containers are determined to have
a valid Identifier, or,
the alternative step of marking zero, one or a plurality of physical or EMO
Containers as having an
invalid Container Identifier or not having a valid Container Identifier and
further step of rejecting
said invalid Container should it not have a valid Container Identifier;
(6)(a) and further step for each of the said POEM format Container is found to
be
timely submitted to, or received by Officials at the correct Jurisdiction, the
steps of recording and
optionally marking each said POEM format Container as being timely with the
Official Received
date-time-stamp, and then removing all of the internal received Documents from
each timely
Container, and for each Document therein said Containers, recording each as
being timely received,
optionally marking each Document with the Official Received date-time-stamp,
with zero, one or a
plurality of Container Identifiers, and
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(b) the further steps of marking and correlating each valid Container
Identifier to each
of the said Documents therein, and
(c)(1) the alternative step for each invalid Identifier for each said
Container, marking
said Container as having an invalid Container Identifier; and the further step
of from each Container
having an invalid Container Identifier, extracting each Document therein,
marking each said
Document invalid Container Identifier, optionally marking each Document with
the Official
Received date-time-stamp, and with zero, one or a plurality of Container
Identifiers, then
segregating said Documents for separate processing; and
(c.2) the further step of rejecting each Document extracted from a Container
having an
invalid Container Identifier;
(c.3) the further step then for each of the Documents taken from an invalid
Container,
marking each therein Document invalid Container Identifier then separately
determining the
validity, authenticity and usability of each said Document thereof for any
further processing; and
thereafter processing any valid, authentic Documents that were received in a
Container having an
invalid Container Identifier; and
(d) for each timely received and valid Container Identifier Document, and for
each
timely received Document, then performing the following steps of:
(1) submitting each said Document to validation and authentication testing;
and for
those Documents passing validation and authentication testing, certifying each
then submitting each
to reading of the Document, comprising the steps and methods of:
(i) selecting a Template for reading, decoding and displaying zero, one or a
plurality of data fields of any type that are assigned to each type of
Document: Voting Ballot, Voter
Registration form, Voter-Proxy Assignment form, Voter-Proxy Language
Registration form, Voter
Registration Complaint form, Voter Ballot Processing Complaint form, Ballot
Receipt, Voter
Registration Receipt, Voter Proxy Assignment Receipt, Language Selection
Receipt, and for the
particular Voting Session, Jurisdiction, current Template version, Official
current date and time;
(ii) wherein for each of a plurality of said Documents, in accordance with the
selected
appropriate Document processing Template, or a series of sequentially applied
Templates, that are
correlated to the type of Document for performing the tasks thereof: reading
then decoding, and
displaying zero, one or a plurality of Official data field label Identifiers,
zero, one or a plurality of
Official data fields and zero, one or a plurality of correlated barcodes, and
zero, one or a plurality of
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Official Security Elements as well as zero, one or a plurality of Voter
selections, zero, one or a
plurality of Voter Write-In data values, zero, one or a plurality of symbols,
zero, one or a plurality
of graphics an zero, one or a plurality of Voter Personal Security Items, that
are marked on each
Document and that is correlated and responsive to the Template and Identifier
provided for reading
each of the aforesaid: Official data fields, field label Identifiers,
barcodes, Security Elements, Voter
selections, Voter Write-In data values, symbols, graphics and Voter Personal
Security Items: Voter
Signature, Voter Initials, Voter PassWords, Voter graphics and glyphs, Voter
Personal Security
Numbers and patterns;
(iii) and thereafter interpreting, recording, sorting, storing as at least one
or a combination
of POEM formats: physically, optically, electronically, magnetically,
chemically, structurally, then
tabulating each of the decoded Voter selections, Voter Write-In data values,
symbols, graphics and
Voter Personal Security Items from each of the timely received Documents, and
reading each of the
Official data field label Identifiers, Official data fields and correlated
barcodes, and Official
Security Elements in a manner consistent with each respective reading Template
or correlated series
of sequentially applied Templates for that Document, and for each type of
Document, and for zero,
one or a plurality of Documents of each Document type;
(2) wherein each said type of Document and each Container need not be pre-
sorted into
groups prior to said reading thereof;
(a) sorting a plurality of the aforesaid Documents by Document type, Document
Identifier,
Container Content Identifier or markings, Container validity designation or
marking, Jurisdiction
Identifier, voting session Identifier, date submitted, date received, date and
time submitted, date and
time received or otherwise sorted by a combination thereof;
(b) sorting a plurality of Containers by Container Identifier, Container
Content Identifier
(content Document type) or Container validity designation or marking,
Jurisdiction Identifier,
Voting Session Identifier, date submitted, date received, date and time
submitted, date and time
received or sorted by any combination thereof;
(c) and further wherein for each aforesaid Documents has orientation Indicia
and fiducial
Marks and may be in an orientation different from other ones of the same types
of Documents, and
among different rendering POEM formats of the same Document - said method
further comprising:
determining from the orientation Indicia the orientation of each said
Document;
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(D) said decoding of the Official data field label Identifiers, data fields
and correlated
barcodes, Official Security Elements, Voter selections, Voter Write-In data
values, symbols,
graphics and Voter Personal Security Items that are read from each Document in
accordance with
the selected reading Template comprises decoding consistent with the
determined orientation,
magnification ratio, and proportionality aspect ratio of each Document for the
Official data field
label Identifiers, Official data fields and correlated barcodes, Official
Security Elements, Voter
selections, Voter Write-In data values, symbols, graphics and Voter Personal
Security Items marked
on each Document in accordance with the selected, correlated reading Template
or series of
sequentially applied Templates;
(E) said orientation Indicia includes:
(1)(a) zero, one or a plurality of face-orientation Indicia that are place for
aiding to rotate
the POEM formats of said Document, Container or Object image to the correct
orientation for
reading, and further to assist in determining and signaling whether the POEM
format of each said
Document, Container or image requires to be flipped over to view the opposite
view or other angle
to enable proper complete scanning and reading;
(b) or at least one or more orientation Indicia comprised of : Indicia
concentric circles, bulls-
eye, or concentric oval or rectangular shapes, cross-hair lines, cross-hair
lines in a circle or
concentric circles, typographical bullet graphics, crossed connected or
pyramidal: + Marks, X and
x Marks, T Marks, I Marks, arrow, bracket, rectangle, triangle or wedge
shapes, and further
whereby any of the said Indicia may be further modified with one or more
black, darkened or
contrasting adjacent sections, any notches or darkened area Marks are further
whereby said Indicia
may be further modified by overlapping or combination of any type and number
of said Indicia;
further consistently placing and position said Indicia on each Document,
Container, Object or
rendered formats of any types of said Documents, Containers, Objects along at
least one edge or
corner so as to be distinguishable from any other types of Documents,
Container or Object;
(2)(a) at least two size-scaling Indicia that are spaced apart by a
predetermined distance
for defining an outer edge perimeter dimension for each of the respective
Documents, Containers or
Objects; or at least two scaling-sizing Indicia that are placed at opposite
corners along the same
edge of width or length, and spaced apart by a predetermined distance for
defining a dimension of
the Document consistently for each Document type;
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(b) placing at least two aspect-sizing Indicia placed at a right angle or
another angle
relative to the said size-scaling indices - or at diagonally opposite corners -
for defining the
proportionality and aspect ratio of each of a plurality of Documents,
consistently for each Document
type;
(c) said Indicia size-scaling and aspect-ratio sizing may be combined;
(3) and at least two scan-position Indicia that are spaced apart consistently
by a
predetermined distance for defining a dimension of a scanning zone for a
Template reading area
within the boundaries of each of the respective Documents, and for each
Document type;
(4) zero, one or a plurality of imaging-quality Indicia for detecting and
calibrating the
captured image quality comprising of: scan resolution dpi, focus-sharpness,
depth-of-field,
brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, chromatic values, grey-scale values;
(5) each said Indicia markings may be manifested as physical Marks, POEM
format data
and in any combination thereof ;
(6) each said Indicia include at least one of : concentric circles bulls-eye,
or concentric
oval or rectangular shapes, cross-hair lines, cross-hair lines in a circle or
concentric circles,
typographical bullet graphics, crossed connected or pyramidal: + Marks, X and
x Marks, T Marks, I
Marks, arrow, bracket, rectangle, triangle or wedge shapes, and further
whereby any of the said
Indicia may be further modified with one or more black, darkened or
contrasting adjacent sections,
any notches or darkened area Marks are further whereby said Indicia may be
further modified by
overlapping or combination for a plurality of any type of said Indicia;
(7) for each said Indicia, made in any type of rendering POEM format: optical,
electronic, electromagnetic, chemical, structural, the steps of consistently
sizing each said Indicia
with the correct aspect-ratio, color, or greyscale or blackness or whiteness,
contrast, darkness,
brightness, focus, sharpness and clarity, then accurately placing and position
said Indicia, on each
Document, Container, Object and for a plurality of said Documents, Containers,
Objects;
(8) for said Official Document markings and Voter marking areas, and for zero,
one or
a plurality of Voter or Official markings thereto, made in any said rendering
POEM format the
steps of consistently sizing each said markings with the correct aspect-ratio,
color, or greyscale or
blackness or whiteness, contrast, darkness, brightness, focus, sharpness and
clarity, then accurately
placing and positioning said markings, on each Document, Container, Object and
for a plurality of
said Documents, Containers, Objects;
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(F) wherein said reading each physical or EMO format of Document or Container
includes capturing an optical representation image of the Document or
Container and securely
storing the captured image of the POEM format of Document or Container;
wherein said reading
each POEM format of Document or Container includes capturing the entire
optical image of the
Document or Container or Object and for any portions thereof by employing at
least one or a
combination of: camera, optical copier machine, optical scanner, electronic
facsimile machine, a
computer running a virtual or real-time screen imaging display and high
resolution image capture
program, a computer running a Document rendition and high resolution image
capture program, a
commercial image capture device, a commercial printing device, or a commercial
scanning device,
or optical barcode reader, ultra-violet light invisible ink illuminator and
reader, electromagnetic ink
reader, magnetic stripe reader, electronic micro-device, integrated circuit
reader or any combination
thereof said devices and with any number and combination of other said Voting
Session Devices,
independently and in combinations with at least one or a plurality of other
devices of network
systems, telemetry systems, telephone and computer communications systems,
voter reporting and
security systems, reporting and publishing systems, investigation and security
systems, validation
and authentication systems, error detection, error reporting and error
correction systems of this
invention;
(G) whereby a method for reading paper or visually or audibly or tactilely
rendered
physical, structural or electronic, magnetic, optical, chemical POEM format of
Documents or
portions of said Documents whereby: each said POEM format of Document is
markable for
marking Voter selections, Voter Write-In data values, symbols and graphics
thereon, said method
comprising: decoding the machine readable: determining the Voter selections,
Voter Write-In data
values, symbols and graphics marked on each paper Document; and tabulating the
Voter selections,
Voter Write-In data values, symbols and graphics determined from each of the
POEM format of
Documents; wherein each POEM format of Document is markable for marking Voter
selections,
Voter Write-In data values, symbols and graphics thereon, and wherein each
manifested or rendered
POEM form of Document has a Jurisdiction Identifier and fiducial Marks
thereon, said method
comprising: reading each manifested or rendered POEM form of Document
including at least the
machine readable Document Identifier, and zero, one or a plurality of Voter
signatures, Voter
initials, and Voter PassWords thereon; decoding the machine readable Document
Identifier read
from each Document; displaying at least the decoded Document Identifier Voter
signatures, Voter
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initials, and Voter PassWords of each Document for determining from the
Document Identifier, the
Voter signatures, Voter initials, and Voter PassWords or the Document
Identifier and the Voter
signatures, Voter initials, and Voter PassWords, whether the Document is a
valid, authentic, timely
submitted Ballot; and if the Ballot is determined to be a valid, authentic,
timely submitted Ballot,
removing each said form of Ballot determined to be a valid, authentic, timely
submitted Ballot from
its Ballot envelope, and then performing the following steps on each said form
of Ballot determined
to be a valid, authentic, timely submitted as manifested or rendered POEM form
of Ballot:
determining from the fiducial Marks the orientation of each said Ballot;
reading consistent with the
determined orientation of each Ballot the Jurisdiction Identifier of each
Ballot; selecting an
appropriately correlated form of reading Template responsive to read the
Jurisdiction Identifiers of
each said form of Ballot and for reading the Voter selections, Voter Write-In
data values, symbols
and graphics marked thereon; then using said reading Template for reading the
Jurisdiction
Identifiers, Voter selections, Voter Write-In data values, symbols and
graphics marked on said form
Ballot in accordance with the selected Template and consistent with the
determined orientation of
each said Ballot, whereby the Voter selections, Voter Write-In data values,
symbols and graphics
marked on each said form of Ballot are read in accordance with a selected
Template corresponding
to the Jurisdiction Identifiers for that Ballot, irrespective of the
orientation of each Ballot; and
further comprising: decoding the voting selections and Write-In choices,
further comprising:
decoding the voting selections and Write-In choices read from each paper
Ballot in accordance with
the selected Template; then: tabulating the voting selections and Write-In
choices decoded from
each of the manifested or rendered POEM formats of all unique Ballots
consistent with their
respective selected Templates, or, publishing the voting selections and Write-
In choices decoded
from each of all unique RSID Ballots, or tabulating the voting selections and
Write-In choices
decoded from each of all unique RSID Ballots consistent with their respective
selected Templates
and publishing the decoded voting selections and Write-In choices read from
each all unique RSID
Ballot in accordance with the selected Template; and then: tabulating the
voting selections and
Write-In choices decoded from each of all unique RSID Ballots consistent with
their respective
selected Templates; or publishing the voting selections and Write-In choices
decoded from each of
all unique RSID Ballots, or, tabulating the voting selections and Write-In
choices decoded from
each of all unique RSID Ballots consistent with their respective selected
Templates, and then
determining the decoded voting selections and Write-In choices; and prior to
said tabulating step for
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zero, one or a plurality of Ballot Documents and types of Ballot Documents:
determining from the
decoded voting selections whether each Ballot Document contains an under-vote,
an over-vote, a
missing voting selection, a Write-In voting selection, or a combination
thereof; segregating each
Ballot determined to contain an under-vote, an over-vote, a missing voting
selection, a Write-In
voting selection, or a combination thereof from other Ballots determined not
to contain an under-
vote, an over-vote, a missing voting selection, or a Write-In voting
selection; and then: performing
said tabulating step for all other Ballots not determined to contain an under-
vote, an over-vote, a
missing voting selection, or a Write-In voting selection; separately
processing and separately
tabulating each segregated Ballot determined to contain an under-vote, an over-
vote, a missing
voting selection, a Write-In voting selection, or a combination thereof an
under-vote, an over-vote, a
missing voting selection, a Write-In voting selection;
(H) (a) and further whereby said reading each marked Container and a plurality
of
Containers, each Document and a plurality of Documents, includes imaging of
marked physical
Containers and imaging any physical Documents:
(i) that are effectively transported linearly without oscillations along a
physical transport
path of an image Document scanner, or
(ii) by capturing an image of the Container or Document or Object by using a
high
resolution digital optical camera, or
(iii) using zero, one or a plurality of alternative scanning data acquisition
devices: optical
barcode reader, ultra-violet light invisible ink illuminator and reader,
electromagnetic ink reader,
plastic card magnetic stripe reader, electronic micro-device, integrated
circuit reader, , or
(iv) by converting electronic, optical, magnetic and electromagnetic data of
the physical,
electronic, optical, magnetic or electromagnetic Container or Document so as
to be able to render
said Container or Document as a high resolution optical image in a pixelated
or bitmapped image
file format - for each of a plurality of said: Containers, Documents, Objects;
(b) wherein all physical, electronic, optical and electromagnetic Documents
have
boundary, alignment, orientation and sorting markings to facilitate the
scanning process;
(c) whereby the process of scanning comprises the general steps:
(i) determine the Document voting Jurisdiction, zero, one or a plurality of
sub-Jurisdictions;
(ii) determine zero, one or a plurality of voting session Identifiers,
(iii) determine the types of Documents to be scanned;
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(iv) optional pre-sorting and grouping a plurality of Documents by any type;
(v) at least one imaging control devices or Officials:
(vi) enables at least one scanning device;
(vii) loads scanning device parameters;
(viii) capturing the entire Document image and for any portion thereof;
(ix) applying image processing software to adjust visibility, quality and file
size;
(x) applying image processing software to convert said image file to at least
one image
storage format, then saves-stores the image in zero, one or a plurality of
said forms and formats;
(xi) applying IPS to scale the image view to required size;
(xii) rotating the image to the proper orientation;
(xiii) signaling an error if the image is blank, indiscernable, or too dark to
use;
(xiv) setting the image to the proper alignment relative to a test alignment
sheet;
(xv) loading the appropriate Document reading Template, or a series of
Templates for that
respective Document type, voting Jurisdiction, and for that election
Identifier on that date - for
which that Template or series of Templates are designed to scan Voter Data
portions of the
Document to extract the Voter provided selections and information therein and
thereof said
Document that is correlated to specific Voter Data positions areas of the
Document;
(xvi) scanning each Voter Data position that is correlated to the Voter
Template Data Field
Value adjacent to, or at each Voter Data position;
(xvii) reading and decoding each Voter data field value that is converted from
optical images
to the actual values of the characters, numbers and symbols by using at least
one computer running
programs of optical character recognition software and intelligent character
recognition software;
(xviii) storing at least one image parts of any Document portions or Container
having
markings of Voter signature, Voter initials, Voter PassWords, Voter Ballot
casting date, Voter
personal devices Identifiers, and Of any other Voter Personal Security
markings or graphics;
(xix) scanning, reading, and decoding from each reading Template area that
corresponds to
each Official data position: every Official data field Identifier: Ballot
RSIDs, Ballot PassCodes,
Officials devices Identifiers, Ballot casting date, Ballot casting time,
Ballot casting location,
Jurisdiction, each correlated Official data field values, and zero, one or a
plurality of: correlated
barcodes, characters, numbers, symbols, graphics, Official Document Security
Elements;
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(xx) scanning, reading, and decoding from each reading Template area that
corresponds to
each Official alignment Marks, orientation Marks, scan zone Identifier Marks,
image quality control
Marks;
(xxi) Voter portions captured of what is read and decoded has correlated
values redundantly
stored in at least one said POEM formats: optically, electronically,
electromagnetically, physically,
structurally, chemically; converting and correlating said read and decoded
values to binary, octal or
hexadecimal number values that are used for machine processes: comparisons,
validation,
authentication, certification, tallying, counting, sorting, analyzing,
summarizing, reporting, storing
for provided Voter data; and further said Voter portions of Document and
Container read images of
Voter signature, Voter initials, Voter PassWords, Voter graphics and glyphs,
Voter Personal
Security Numbers and patterns, Official PassCodes are used to compare to
verify or reject zero, one
or a plurality of Ballots, Complaints or Amendments due to failed comparison
of Official records of
Voter signatures, Voter initials, Voter PassWords, Official PassCodes,
Official graphics and glyphs,
Voter Personal Security Numbers and patterns, on or within zero, one or a
plurality of: Documents
or Containers, by comparison to said Voter signature, Voter initials, Voter
PassWords, Official
PassCodes, Official graphics and glyphs, Voter Personal Security Numbers and
patterns, recorded
previously for the Voter Registration;
(d) whereby aforesaid steps of part (c) are also used for each marked
Container that is
received so as to determine First whether the Container and internal Documents
were sent to the
proper Jurisdiction and whether said Containers and Documents were timely
submitted for
processing;
(e) said decoding the machine readable Identifiers, markings, values, and data
that are
read from each Container and each Document includes decoding the machine
readable Identifiers,
markings, values, and data from the said pixelated or bitmapped format of the
Container image or
Document image; and the steps of extracting relevant: Container data
variables, Ballot variables,
Voter Registration variables, Voter Language select variables, and further:
(i) the Container Identifier includes zero, one or a plurality of unique
Container
Identifiers, zero, one or a plurality of unique voting session Identifiers, at
least one unique
Jurisdiction Identifiers, zero, one or a plurality of unique Voter
Identifiers, whereby the determining
is from the Container Identifier, Jurisdiction Identifier, Voting Session
Identifier, Voter Identifier,
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and zero, one or a plurality of: Voter signature, Voter initials, Voter
PassWord and Voter graphics
and glyphs, Voter Personal Security Numbers and patterns;
(ii) whether the Container is a valid, verifiable Container comprises:
determining
whether the Template read Voter signature, Voter initials, Voter PassWord
closely matches the
Voter signature, Voter initials, Voter PassWord in the Certified Voter
Registration record having the
identical, unique Registered Voter Identifier, or, alternatively, the
Container Identifier, Jurisdiction
Identifier, Voting Session Identifier, Voter Identifier, are found in the
voting system data storage
and determined to be valid, active Identifiers;
(f) (i) wherein the Document Identifier includes at least one unique Document
Identifiers, at least one unique voting session Identifiers, at least one
unique Jurisdiction Identifiers,
zero, one or a plurality of unique Voter Identifiers - wherein the determining
is from the unique
Document Identifier, Jurisdiction Identifier, and Voting Session Identifier,
and zero, one or a
plurality of unique Voter Identifiers, zero, one or a plurality of: Voter
signature, Voter initials,
Voter PassWord or phrase or numeric value or alpha-numeric value, Voter
graphics and glyphs,
Voter Personal Security Identifiers of audio sounds;
(ii) whether the Document is a valid, verifiable Document comprises:
determining
whether the Template read Voter signature, Voter initials, Voter PassWord,
Voter graphics closely
matches the Voter signature, Voter initials, Voter PassWord, Voter graphics
that are found in the
Certified Voter Registration record having the identical unique Registered
Voter Identifier, or,
alternatively, the Document Identifier, Jurisdiction Identifier, voting
session Identifier, Voter
Identifier, found in the voting system data storage and determined to be
valid, active Identifiers;
(g) said decoding of the Official data field label Identifiers, data fields
and correlated
barcodes, Official Security Elements, Voter selections, Voter Write-In data
values, symbols,
graphics and Voter Personal Security Items that are read from each Document in
accordance with
the selected reading Template comprises decoding consistent with the pre-
determined minimum
acceptable values for: illumination, tonal contrast, focus-sharpness, white
point value, black point
value, black and white contrast, color contrast, hue, saturation, and
chromatic values of each
Document for the Official data field label Identifiers, data fields and
correlated barcodes, Official
Security Elements, Voter selections, Voter Write-In data values, symbols,
graphics and Voter
Personal Security Items which are marked on each Document in accordance with
the selected,
correlated reading each Template or each correlated plurality series of
Templates;
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(h) enabling each Voter to validate their Voter Registration or cast Ballot
vote processing
accuracy by using their privately known Ballot Voting RSID or Voter
Registration RSID and zero,
one or a plurality of Official Ballot PassCodes and zero, one or a plurality
of Voter Personal
Security Items, so as to confirm Official processing accuracy or to make
amendments, optionally by
referring to correlated private Internet WebPages and webpage PassCodes to
zero, one or a plurality
of Official records;
(i) in combination with each valid voting Ballot RSID submitted, further
employing
zero, one or a plurality of Official Ballot PassCodes as a mutually shared
private Second-stage
authentication for zero, one or a plurality of Ballot RSIDs whereby each
Official Ballot PassCode
submitted for each Ballot RSID must be correlated to said Ballot RSID prior to
the Ballot being
accepted for voting and recording each Ballot Voter choices and all other data
correlated to said
Ballot and Ballot RSID;
(j) employing zero, one or a plurality of Official Ballot PassCodes as a
mutually shared
private encryption-decryption key used by public-private key encryption-
decryption algorithms for
securely and privately encrypting or decrypting Voter data, Voter Ballot
choices and related data,
and Ballot security data between at least one Official and zero, one or a
plurality of Voters
authenticating or submitting zero, one or a plurality of valid authentic
Ballots;
(k) employing zero, one or a plurality of Official Ballot PassCodes as a
mutually shared
private encryption-decryption key used by any type of public-private key
encryption algorithms for
securely and privately encrypting or decrypting Voter, Voting and Ballot data
between Officials and
zero, one or a plurality of Voters authenticating or submitting zero, one or a
plurality of valid
authentic Ballots;
(l) tallying, summarizing and publishing all Registrations and Ballots
received, along
with a complete list of all timely received, and all other valid, Ballot RSIDs
that were assigned to
Ballots and Registrations for public validation;
(m) Receiving and investigating all Registration or Ballot casting amendments
requested
and processing or rejecting zero, one or a plurality of amendment requests,
then recording and
completing all valid allowable amendments, then verifying zero, one or a
plurality of amendments
were correctly and accurately processed and then publishing zero, one or a
plurality of amendments
that each have one active status of completion: submitted, accepted, rejected,
verified, completed,
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incomplete, pending, erroneous as well as one of four inactive statuses:
inactive, rescinded, voided
or cancelled.
[Claim 14] The Computerized Voting System of claim I wherein: at least one
Official,
Official Agent, or Official Voting Device does accept, receive, acknowledge,
sort, organize, record,
store, tally, calculate, summarize, print or publish or otherwise process:
a plurality of Voting Documents : (i) Voter Lists, (ii) Voter Registrations,
(iii) Voter Language Selections, (iv) Voter Ballots, (v) Data Containers,
(vi) Security Items, (vii) Data Items, (viii) Data Transmissions;
(B) and the further steps and methods whereby each created Voting Documents
(Voter
Registration forms, Voter Language form, Ballot, Data Container) is assigned
at least one new,
unique data record containing at least one variable content data fields, and
all records are stored in
at least one data system which comprises of a new record Identifier, date,
time, location, and zero,
one or a plurality of other attributes are updated as needed to describe the
various data and status
conditions for each Voting Document;
(C) (i) and the further steps and methods whereby for processing (scanning,
imaging,
enhancing, reading, decoding, storing and correlating ) of Voter Ballots
includes said processing of
data fields for each portion containing zero, one or a plurality of
candidates, proposals or zero, one
or a plurality of both candidates and proposals, which are each further
correlated with zero, one or a
plurality of barcodes and further correlated with a portion of the area
assigned to Mark or record
each Voter voting information at least one Voting Region Identifier for zero,
one or a plurality of
subsidiary Voting Region Identifiers, zero, one or a plurality of polling
station Identifiers, zero, one
or a plurality of Postal Code-Zip Code Identifiers, zero, one or a plurality
of geographic location
Identifiers at least one election type Identifiers, zero, one or a plurality
of due date Identifiers, zero,
one or a plurality of due time Identifiers, zero, one or a plurality of
Activation identifiers, Expiry
Date identifiers, Expiry Time identifiers, at least one Election Identifier,
at least one Voting Session
Identifier, zero, one or a plurality of Security Elements, at least one Ballot
Voting RSID and zero,
one or a plurality of Official Ballot PassCode RSIDs, and zero, one or a
plurality of Ballot
Validation RSIDs, zero, one or a plurality of Ballot Validation PassCodes, at
most one Ballot Origin
and Assign RSID, and at most one Successful Document-Ballot Registration RSID
¨ whereby the
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aforesaid are then correlated to each other and to the Whole Ballot and each
Master, Receipts parts
thereof;
(ii) and further steps and methods of processing, scanning, imaging,
enhancing,
reading, decoding, storing and correlating each item of each Voter Ballot to a
data field within the
same unique data system record;
(iii) and the further steps and methods of providing a data retrieval key
value for rapid
location and retrieval of the aforesaid data-items;
(D) (i) and the further steps and methods of said processing for zero, one or
a plurality of
Voter Registrations processing for each received Voter Registration, at least
comprising of: zero,
one or a plurality of Voter personal Identifiers, at least one printed family
names, at least one
printed First name, zero, one or a plurality of middle initials, at least one
signatures, signed initials,
zero, one or a plurality of date information, at least one address
information, zero, one or a plurality
of non-mail contact information, zero, one or a plurality of Electronic Mail
addresses, zero, one or a
plurality of Cellular phone numbers, zero, one or a plurality of Home phone
numbers, zero, one or a
plurality of Work phone numbers, zero, one or a plurality of Proxy Voter:
family names, First
names, middles initials, addresses, telephone contacts, Electronic Mail
Addresses, signatures, and
initials, Voter graphics and glyphs, Voter Personal Security Numbers and
patterns;
(ii) correlating and storing each item of each Voter Registration to a data
field within the
same unique data system record;
(iii) providing a data retrieval key value for rapid location and retrieval of
said data-items;
(E) and the further steps and methods of said processing for a plurality of
Voter-Proxy
Language forms and all the relevant information therein;
(F) (i) the steps and methods of processing zero, one or a plurality of
personal Identifiers, as
well as the steps and methods for each Ballot, Registration or Language form
of correlating of each
aforementioned Identifier or to the respective barcodes or other optical
scanning markings or
encodings, or electronic processing markings or encodings;
(ii) and the further steps and methods of creating, assigning, attaching,
linking and
processing additional encoding for a plurality of POEM format: physical,
optical, electronic,
magnetic, electromagnetic, chemical or structural copies and the original
Documents so as to ensure
accurate processing;
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(G) and the further steps of data storage, retrieval and organization of
received Ballots,
Voter Registrations and Voter Language forms so as to be easier to record,
validate, verify,
authenticate, certify, error check, amend, tally, identify, sort, store,
locate, retrieve, publish and
otherwise process in any other manner using the Voting Session Devices, Voter
and Proxy devices;
(H) whereby Officials create, distribute and otherwise process zero, one or a
plurality of
acknowledgements for each Whole Voter Registrations, Master Voter
Registrations, Receipt Voter
Registrations, Whole Ballots, Master Ballots, Receipt Ballots, Whole Voter
Language forms,
Master Voter Language forms, Receipt Voter Language forms, received from zero,
one or a
plurality of Eligible Voters zero, one or a plurality of: Potential Voters,
Certified Registered Voters,
Unknown Voters, Ineligible Voters, designated proxies or Officially approved
legal entities;
(I)(i) whereby Officials receive zero, one or a plurality of: Master Ballots,
Receipt Ballots,
Voter Registration forms, Language Selection forms, Containers, Transaction
Receipts, or other
types of Documents, Objects, Events, processing, transactions, error and
amendments processing,
security activities, data or data transmissions or communications of this
invention;
(ii) whereby at least one Official accepts or rejects the validity and
authenticity of each
Master Ballots, Receipt Ballots, Voter Registration forms, Language Selection
forms, Containers,
Transaction Receipts or other types of Documents, Objects, Events, processing,
transactions, error
and amendments processing, security activities, data or data transmissions or
communications of
this invention;
(iii) whereby at least one Official validates then accepts for recording and
tallying zero, one
or a plurality of Authenticated, Valid Master Ballots, Receipt Ballots, Voter
Registration forms,
Language Selection forms, Containers, or other types of Documents, Objects,
Events, processing,
transactions, error and amendments processing, security activities, data or
data transmissions or
communications of this invention;
(iv) whereby at least one Official verifies by manual or automated visual
comparisons,
optical-electronic data scanning, computers running software programs
performing signature-
address validation comparisons for each Voter signature or initials and for
each Proxy signature or
initials and for zero, one or a plurality of contact and address information
located inside or outside
of the Ballot Return Data Container or any other type of Data Container so as
to be compare to the
signature, initials, contact, address data recorded on the Master Voter
Registration Form submitted
prior to Whole Ballot return delivery to Officials;
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(v) whereby at least one Official either:
(a) accepts the Ballot as being from a registered Voter, and then forwards the
Ballot for
further processing associated with completing processing of the vote, or,
(b) rejects the Ballot and then takes steps of either returning the Ballot and
Ballot-address-
signature card to the Voter for amendments or, holds the Ballot and Ballot-
address-signature card
for further investigations; and
(c) for zero, one or a plurality of Documents, forms, data Containers,
Objects, data
transmissions, data storages that are items found to contain an RSID or any
other Unique Identifier
having acronym UID determined to have been previously submitted, then:
(c)(i) both the duplicate and First Object or data are each uniquely marked
with new distinct
RSIDs or UIDs, recorded, tallied, removed and stored separate from all other
valid, authenticated,
certified Objects or data and are separately error processed: error detection,
error identification,
error reporting, error specification, error localization, error position
locating, error marking, error
correction, error data recovery, false error detection rejection and are
separated from all other non-
duplicate Documents or ballots for further investigation and authentication or
rejection;
(c)(ii) Officials act to resolve which of the duplicates items are authentic
and true, using
Security Elements, then separately store the false Object or data;
(c)(iii) Officials restore, certify, and tally each authentic, valid item;
(d) restoring each and all validated Ballots, or final rejecting any un-
validated Ballots;
(e) recording and storing all Voter Personal Security Items that were provided
by the said
correlated Voter or Proxy Voter and for zero, one or a plurality of Officials
and Electoral Board
members.
[Claim 15] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein at least one
Official,
Official Agent, or Official Voting Device does accept, receive, acknowledge,
sort, organize, record,
store, tally, calculate, summarize, print or publish or otherwise process:
(i) zero, one or a plurality of Voters requesting zero, one or a plurality of
replacements
of: Ballots, Voter Registration forms, Voter Language Selection forms, and
other Documents types,
Containers, Data, Objects, Messages, Signals, Methods, Algorithms, Keys,
Records, Events, Errors,
Amendments, Calculations, data transmissions, data receptions of this
invention:
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(ii) the further steps whereby zero, one or a plurality of Officials
determine, for each
Voter, the appropriateness whether to provide zero, one or a plurality of
replacements for zero, one
or a plurality of Voters whom are requesting replacements;
(iii) zero, one or a plurality of Officials, Agents or Official Third Party
refuses or
provides zero, one or a plurality of replacement Documents or Containers to
zero, one or a plurality
of Voters;
(iv) at least one Official, Agent or Official Third Party records all relevant
data
regarding the replacement Documents and Containers provided and the recipient
Voter the item was
provided to, then accurately amends each correlated Official records.
[Claim 16] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein at least one
Official,
Official Agent, or Official Voting Device does accept, receive, acknowledge,
sort, organize, record,
store, tally, calculate, summarize, print or publish or otherwise process and
investigates:
(A) each of a plurality of Voter complaints of errors or omissions pertaining
to one or a
plurality of Voter Registrations and one or a plurality of portions of Voter
Registrations, or zero,
one or a plurality of Ballots or both Voter Registrations, Ballots and
portions thereof; determining
whether to accept or reject each Voter request to amend any errors, record the
Official findings of
the investigation, and when required, Officials amend zero, one or a plurality
of disputed records,
tallies, summaries, calculations, and publications for zero, one or a
plurality of Voter or Ballots,
Ballot Containers, Voter Language Selection Containers and Voter Registration
Containers, in
accordance with the findings and Voting Session Rules, and then Officials
verify that each
submitted amendment was completed accurately, or then resubmit zero, one or a
plurality of
improper or incomplete amendments, then provide a report to each complainant
Voter, other
Officials and zero, one or a plurality of other interested parties.
[Claim 17] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein at least one
Official,
Official Agent, or Official Voting Device generates and assigns:
(i) a plurality of unique Container Validation RSIDs are generated by
Officials then
printed, embedded, attached, correlated or otherwise associated with the
visible exterior of zero, one
or a plurality of Whole Ballot Containers;
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(ii) a plurality of unique Container Validation RSIDs are generated,
correlated and
attached to a plurality of Whole Ballot Containers;
(iii) each Data Container has created and assigned zero, one or a plurality of
unique
Container Validation RSIDs that are individually or collectively correlated to
at most one Data
Container;
(iv) zero, one or a plurality of Container Validation RSIDs are correlated to
zero, one or
a plurality of Whole Ballot Voting RSIDs within a Whole Ballot Container;
(v) each Container Validation RSID is further correlated to Voting Session
Identifiers
and Limits of Use details of the voting session, and further to zero, one or a
plurality of Security
Elements that are displayed clearly and prominently so as facilitate equitable
Ballot use and
validation for exchanges by clarifying exactly which elections and voting
region the Whole Ballot
Containers internal Whole Ballot Voting RSIDs correspond to, and what time
frame these items are
useful for;
(vi) physically sealing the physical Whole Ballot Container or electronically,
electromagnetically or optically PassWord protecting and encrypting of the
POEM format Whole
Ballot Container such that subsequent accessing of said Container internal
Ballots and any other
contents noticeably revealing access occurred;
(vii) if said Whole Ballot Container is electronic, electronic-optical,
magnetic, electro-
magnetic in form, that for each Master and Receipt Ballot, sets of Voter
marked Ballot choices and
correlated Voter Personal Security Items may not be easily revealed without
prior decryption using
zero, one or a plurality of Ballot validation Official PassCodes, Voter
PassWords, Voter Data and
Ballot Internet WebPages specially encoded Internet address Universal Resource
Locator and
correlated Official Internet webpages respective webpage login PassCodes and
encrypted Internet
accessible data vaults, private virtual networks and other methods of
controlling public access to
allow only the authorized Voter or the Voter designated Proxy to restrict
access so as to allow only
the person casting the Ballot to view the cast Ballot data, or, optionally
allow both Voter and Proxy
to access the shared cast Ballot data, yet also separating and restricting
access capabilities of each
Voter and correlated designated Proxy so that the Voter and correlated Proxy
cannot read each
others personal data used for Registration, Voting, Complaints,
Investigations, Reports.
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[Claim 18] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 whereby, for a plurality
of
Voters and Proxy Voters successfully registering to cast a Ballot, each Voter
or Proxy Voter :
(A)(1) may optionally be required to First activate the Ballot before use, by
applying
the steps and methods of activation by submitting zero, one or a plurality of
Ballot Activation
Documents, by submitting Ballot Validation RSID and Ballot Validation
PassCode, or,
alternatively: a private Voter Identifier and private Voter PassWord or
phrase, glyph, image, audio,
image, or Personal Identification Number or pattern, by said methods of
delivery: in person, by
courier or delivery service, by personal computer device, telephone audio or
audio-video, telephone
text messaging, Internet, Fax or Facsimile, Electronic Mail, interactive
television, to at least one
Officials, Official Agents or Official devices so as to enable said Ballot for
casting, and to also
enable said Voter to change the Ballot Validation PassCode or to add a private
Ballot Voter
PassCode to be correlated to said Ballot Validation RSID which is recorded,
and redundantly stored
by at least one Official; or,
(A)(2) is not required to pre-activate the Ballot for use, and then opens
zero, one or a
plurality of Whole Ballot Containers for use;
(B)(1) upon successful activation of the Ballot, or lack of requirement for
Ballot
activation, whereby a Voter and plurality of Voters are enabled to vote either
in person, by mail,
Fax or Facsimile, EMail, Internet, telephone, or interactive television, after
revealing, viewing and
using the Ballot PassCode RSID which may be delivered to the Voter separately
from the Whole
Ballot, or is within the Whole Ballot Container, or, printed on, or associated
with the Master Ballot;
and (i) the further step where the Ballot PassCode is also printed on the
Receipt Ballot by
Voting Officials, or, is not printed on the Receipt Ballot and must then be
manually recorded by
each Voter;
(ii) the further step where the Ballot PassCode on the Receipt may also have a
removable
covering for privacy; and
(iii) the further steps and methods whereby a Ballot PassCode is used in
conjunction with
a Ballot Voting for that same Whole Ballot, Master Ballot or Receipt Ballot
for the purpose of
validating or authenticating the correlated Whole Ballot, Ballot Master part
or Ballot Receipt part;
(iv) the further steps whereby zero, one or a plurality of Voters complete
aforesaid Ballot
and constituent parts by applying zero, one or a plurality of: Voter signature
or Voter private
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PassWord, Ballot signing date, Ballot selections and Write-In choices then
submitting Ballot Voting
RSID, Ballot PassCode for zero, one or a plurality of Master Ballots;
(v) and the further step of generating and then retaining zero, one or a
plurality of
correlated Receipt Ballots for each Master Ballot completed;
(vi) and the further steps and methods whereby zero, one or a plurality of
Voters deliver
zero, one or a plurality of Master Ballots to Election Officials or Officially
Designated Recipients
for tallying, as well as zero, one or a plurality of successful completion
Receipt Confirmations that
are delivered to each successful Voter by methods in person paper Receipts,
postal mail paper
Receipts, or electronic mail Receipts, Fax or Facsimile, tele-texting,
interactive television, or
Internet website post-submit web-pages, and to zero, one or a plurality of
third parties to verify the
integrity of the Voting Session;
(C) for a plurality of remote Voters and Proxy Voters whom are not at the
polling station and
instead are acting from a remote location and actively registering, voting,
reviewing, amending,
error reporting, or performing other related activities by employing personal
devices to connect to a
variety of data communications infrastructure networks comprised of:-
telephone, Internet, Intranet,
television, radio so as to then connect to an electronic virtual polling
station, physical polling
stations in order to: obtain voting information, register for voting, review,
verify or amend their
personal Registration, report Registration errors, assign Proxy Voters, amend
Proxy Voters data or
assignment, authenticate the Ballots received, cast their Ballots, review
Ballots cast, report Ballot
casting errors; Said polling stations employ various devices to connect to
said data communications
infrastructure networks so as to then connect to said Voter and Proxy Voters
and further said polling
stations devices also act to record, store and enable said remote Voters to
register, cast their Ballots
for Official tallying, review submitted data, amend or report perceived errors
whereby:
(D) a plurality of Voters and Proxy Voters use zero, one or a plurality of and
combinations
of electronic devices to connect to the Internet, telephone or cellular
telephone communications
systems, or interactive television system, or electronic mail system so as to
securely access, input,
verify, validate, review, amend, submit, retrieve, store, record, print or
save their Voter personal
information and personal choices so as to complete zero, one or a plurality
of:
(i) Voter Registrations and constituent parts thereof,
(ii) Voter Language Selection forms or constituent parts thereof;
(iii) Master Ballots or constituent parts thereof;
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(iv) Voter Proxy Assignment forms or constituent parts thereof;
(v) Voter Contact Update forms or constituent parts thereof;
(vi) Voter Registration Complaint forms or constituent parts thereof;
(vii) Voter Ballot Complaint forms or constituent parts thereof;
(viii) Polling Station Irregularities forms or constituent parts thereof;
(ix) Official Investigation Report forms or constituent parts thereof;
(x) Voter Status (Active-Inactive) Amendment forms or parts thereof;
(xi) Proxy Registration forms or constituent parts thereof;
(xii) Proxy Status (Active-Inactive) Amendment forms or parts thereof;
(xiii) each of other types of Documents and Containers of this invention;
(E) and further whereby zero, one or a plurality of Voters submitting
privately and
securely to Officials all necessary data so as to enable Voter Registration,
Voter Language
Selection, and Voter Ballot Casting also known as Ballot Voting or Voting,
whereby Voters are
reviewing or completing then casting zero, one or a plurality of each type of
Ballots for each
registered Voter, or Proxy appointees;
(F) and the further steps whereby: zero, one or a plurality of Officials and
zero, one or
a plurality of third-parties provide services of:
(i) Official Computer Authentication - the steps and methods whereby zero, one
or a
plurality of Voters using computers, telephones or any other devices are
provided with - zero, one or
a plurality of secure telephone lines, secure Internet connections: : Hyper-
Text Transport Protocol
Security having acronym https, Secure Sockets Layer having acronym: SSL,
Transport Layer
Security having acronym TLS and computer authentication data issued by at
least one third party
certificate authority so as to validate the authenticity of the Official
computers and communications
systems being used for voting and communications are legitimate and authorized
for use; and
(ii) the further steps and methods of:
(1) Official computer and data storage hacker protection ¨ the steps and
methods
whereby zero, one or a plurality of Officials, Official Agents, Official
Devices computers,
telephones, communications systems and networks are provided with enhanced
security software,
equipment, personnel and procedures to ensure the electronic voting systems
availability and
reliability for use for authorized users, and the further steps and methods of
providing zero, one or a
plurality of security measures to ensure the integrity and reliability of the
voting system processes,
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zero, one or a plurality of: data transmissions, data receptions, data error
corrections, Document
processing Document validations, certifications, calculations and
publications; and the further steps
and methods whereby:
(2) Internet Identity Masking ¨ the steps and methods whereby zero, one or a
plurality of
Voters using computers connected to the Internet for voting employ user
identity masking to hide
from zero, one or a plurality of election computers by enabling each Internet
Voter to appear as
another unrelated computer Internet Provider internet connection identifier
and internet address - by
masking at least one of Voters computer unique computer machine identifier and
the unique
Internet connection identifier and Internet address that was assigned to the
Voters computer by the
Voters Internet Provider; and the further steps and methods whereby Internet
Provider address
masking employs zero, one or a plurality of software from third parties that
connect to commercial
or privately owned computer and routers so as to use the third party Internet
Provider addresses as
an alias for the Voter, and connect zero, one or a plurality of public or
private masking network
systems whereby Internet routers encrypt the data and originating Internet
Provider address so as to
hide the Voters data from Internet users and further hide each Voter's
original Internet Provider
addresses and computer or telephone or fax machine, or personal data device,
or television identity
from the election computer systems, or employ client side software to mask the
Voters public
Internet and private local network IP addresses, and unique Machine Identifier
of the sending
device; and the further steps whereby:
(3) Voting Receipt Encryption ¨ to ensure data integrity of Receipt Ballots by
reducing the
possibility of falsification and Ballot tampering - the steps and methods
whereby zero, one or a
plurality of election computers employ public-private key pair encryption
algorithms of Cast Ballot
Receipt information comprised of the following {set of data} : { Ballot voting
RSID, Ballot
PassCode, Voter selections, selection validation codes, Receipt sequence ID,
Receipt validation
code, Voter Personal Security Items comprised of the following sub-set of
data: Voter signature,
Voter initials, Voter PassWords, Voter graphics and glyphs, Voter Personal
Security Number and
patterns, Voter submitting device ID , date and time of submission
information, Official receiving
device ID, Official encrypting device ID, encryption date and time. so that
for each encrypted Cast
Ballot shall have Public Receipt codes created to hide or obscure the original
Ballot Receipt voting
information by using at least one private encryption key that is a PassWord,
phrase or alpha-
numeric symbol code or pattern, image or glyph created by the Voter when
registering or when
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casting their Ballot, and an Official device generated unique Private key that
is used to encrypt the
Voter private key to create an encrypted private Voter SuperKey ; Official
devices generating a
persistent, consistently used public key to enable secure encryption of Voter
SuperKey such that
each Voter can securely access their original Cast Ballot Receipt data; and
further whereby
encryption-decryption by said computer keys and Voter SuperKey employs zero,
one, or a plurality
of Official devices assigned private encryption algorithm, further having
multiple iterative
encryption steps to further embed the encrypted data values, Voter key and
Voter SuperKey via a
series of multiple re-encrypted encryptions of Voter key, Voter SuperKey and
Cast Ballot Receipt
data; whereby said computer keys, Voter key and Voter SuperKey are each
unique, redundantly and
immutably stored, separate from the Cast Ballot Receipt data, yet
associatively linked to said Cast
Ballot Receipt data;
(4) and the further steps and methods whereby each original Ballot Receipt
information is
recoverable from the correlated public encrypted Ballot Receipt Code by
applying manually or by
computer, the correlated private Receipt Encryption Key and the correlated
private Receipt
Encryption Algorithm to the correlated public encrypted Ballot Receipt Code ;
(5) and the further steps and methods whereby zero, one or a plurality of:
(i) public encrypted Ballot Receipt codes are each correlated to their
respective
Ballot RSID;
(ii) Ballot Receipt codes are optionally printed on the face of the Ballot;
(iii) Ballot information data elements are not printed on each Ballot to
preserve
privacy of data Ballot RSID;
(iv) each computer private encryption key and encrypted Voter Superkey are
both unique
and distinct;
(v) privately encrypted Ballot Receipt codes are each correlated to their
respective
Ballot RSID;
(vi) public encryption algorithms and public encryption keys are provided and
employed to enable general public validation of Ballot Receipts data and
Ballot Receipt codes
without revealing private encryption algorithms or private computer and Voter
encryption keys or
Voter SuperKey;
(vi) barcodes and other symbolic marking codes are generated and correlated to
zero,
one or a plurality of Ballot information data elements and zero, one or a
plurality of public
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encrypted Ballot Receipt codes, then printed on or incorporated into the
Ballot Receipt data to
facilitate machine scanning;
(vii) geometric shapes, lines holes, and other symbolic marking codes to be
used for
orientation or alignment are generated then printed on, or otherwise
incorporated into the Ballot
Receipt data to facilitate machine scanning;
and the further steps and methods of :
(G) Internet Processing: Registration, Voting, Validation, Authentication,
Error
Detection, Processing, Corrections and Reporting, Complaints, Investigations,
Amendments,
Certifications, Reporting, Publishing whereby :
(1) Internet Registrations, Internet Voting, Internet Complaints, Internet
Investigations,
Internet Amendments, Internet Auditing is performed by a plurality of Voters,
Proxies, Officials,
and Official Agents using personal communications devices to create a secure,
private connection
and interactive session, to at least one Official computer Internet server
system and a plurality of
Officials computer Internet server systems which are integrated and connected
to the Voting System
of claim 1; said private connection and interactive session to establish zero,
one or a plurality of
Voter-Officials inter-devices connection physically, electronically,
optically, electromagnetically by
secured tunnels of isolated communications by using at least one or a
plurality of: secure data
network cables, virtual private networks, Anonymous Proxy Servers, trusted
devices, device
Authentication Certificates, and at least one or a plurality of secure
communications and
cryptography methods and protocols : Hyper-text Transport Socket Security,
Secure Socket Layer,
Transport Layer Security, software and hardware layers security, secure login
methods for
computers, telephones, data routers and Voting Devices, zero, one or a
plurality of Public-Private
encryption-decryption key pairs, RSIDs, and cryptographic protocols;
(2)(a) a plurality of Voters and Proxys Registering to vote, or amending or
activating
their Voter Registration previously established by the Voter, Voter Proxy, or
research of at least one
Official or Official Device running artificial intelligence software for
specific research validation;
(2)(b) a plurality of Potential Voters, New Voters, Proxy Voters, Eligible
Voters
receiving from at least one Official Internet Server:
(i) at least one Internet accessible website with a main Home webpage giving
access to
the Official Voting Session with embedded inter-webpage optical-electronic
links to enable
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navigation to the Voter Registration webpage, and to zero, one or a plurality
of other inter-linked
WebPages that are used for the Voting Session; or,
(ii) Internet enabled navigation to the Voter Registration main Home webpage
via a
unique electronic address that is correlated to the Officials Internet Servers
Internet Address, said
Officials Internet Servers provide WebPages having embedded inter-webpage
optical-electronic
links to enable navigation to the Voter Registration webpage, and to zero, one
or a plurality of other
inter-linked WebPages that are used for the Voting Session;
(3) said Voters completing, reviewing and submitting their personal identity
information to Officials via said Voter Registration webpages ¨ thus
confirming, denying,
amending, questioning or complaining as to Officials research ¨ or, submitting
new data for
Officials to investigate, accept, amend or reject;
(4) Officials accepting a plurality of said Voters Registration submissions,
then
investigating, accepting, amending or rejecting each Voter submission, then
creating new or
amending existing or deleting existing Voter Registration records accordingly;
(5) Officials certifying a plurality of Voters whose Registrations were
accepted or
amended by Officials; communicating acceptance to each Certified Voter or
rejection to unaccepted
Voter sending to each Certified Registered Voter, at least one Voting Whole
Ballot via the method
selected by each Certified Registered Voter;
(6) for each Certified Registered Voter, Officials creating an electronic,
electromagnetic, optical data storage Voter Registration Vault containing all
of the Voter private
Voter Registration information in an encrypted form, communicating how to
access said Voter
Registration Vault to each Certified Registered Voter, communicating an
Official generated
combination of PassWord, phrase or Personal Security number or pattern,
images, glyphs or
graphics symbols, sounds; alternatively, allowing the Voter to create any
combination of: a
PassWord, phrase or Personal Security number or pattern, any selected images,
glyphs or graphics
symbols, sounds, then applying said PassWord, phrase or Personal Security
number or pattern, an
images, glyphs or graphics symbols and sounds as a private key, also applying
zero, one or a
plurality of public encryption keys and encryption algorithms, and zero, one
or a plurality of
recursive repetitions to said Voter Registration data thereby encrypting said
Voter Registration data;
then storing said encrypted Voter Registration data redundantly, and securely
in or on immutable
media using at least one or a plurality of said data storage formats;
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(7) repeating aforesaid steps of Voter Registration for a plurality of Proxy
Voters who
may each be appointed by zero, one or a plurality of Voters to cast a Ballot
on the behalf of each
original Voter ;
(8) enabling Internet Voting by a plurality of Officials transmitting zero,
one or a plurality
of Receipt Confirmation Documents to a plurality of Voters, whereby each Voter
electronically,
using methods of using a computer, tablet, telephone, interactive television,
or personal data device
to connect to the internet and then connect to the Official website via the
Official provided unique
secure Universal Resource Locator webpage that is uniquely encoded so as to
only be accessible by
Voting Ballot RSID and Ballot PassCode or Voter PassWord; or, by Electronic
Mail sent to each
Voter provided Electronic Mail address, or, by Facsimile machine data
transmission to the Voter
specified Facsimile machine and telephone number; or, by combinations of:
telephone audio tones,
voice, video, pictures, text messaging or applications processing; or, by
interactive television,
personal computer or any other type of personal data device data transmission
and processing; or
by Postal Mail delivery or Courier Delivery Service to each Voter and a
plurality of Voters that
successfully submitted their Registration using said delivery methods ;
(b) and the further optional steps and methods of using the unique, private
Registration
RSID as part of an Internet address to organize and privately store each Voter
Registration webpage
vault, as well as all actions, tallies and summaries of Voter selections for
each Registration of each
Voter;
(9) for a plurality of Certified Registered Voters whose Registration was
adequately
completed and timely received - Officials sending or enabling to send at least
one Whole Ballot and
constituent Master, Receipt parts via Postal Mail, Courier Delivery Service or
by any other
preferred communication method of the Voter or as designated by Officials;
(10) for delivery method of Internet, a plurality of Voters and Officials
using the Internet for
sending, receiving at least one Ballot per Certified Registered Voter by
applying modified
substituting the word Ballot for Registration for above steps (F)(1) to (8);
(11) for a plurality of Voters and Officials, further modifying of aforesaid
steps (F)(1) to
(9) to enable Validation, Error Reporting and Amendments of Voter
Registration, Voter Cast
Ballots, Proxy Assignment, Voter Contact Updates, Proxy Contact Updates, Voter
Active-Inactive,
Proxy Active-Inactive, Voter Ballot Complaints, Voter Registration Complaints
¨ all via Internet;
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(12) Internet Processing (Voter Registration, Voting, Validation, Error
Identification and
Amendments, Reporting) employing the steps and methods of claim 1 and the
further steps and
methods of: Internet Processing, Internet Registration, Internet Voting,
Validation, Error
Identification, Amendments, Complaints, Investigations, Reporting, Publishing,
Auditing performed
by a plurality of Voters, Proxy Voters, Officials, Agents, Third Party
Officials whereby:
(a) Officials, Agents and Official Third Partys obtaining and utilizing zero,
one or a plurality
of Identity Authentication Certificates from zero, one or a plurality of
public Certificate Authorities
that are correlated to the respective Validation Session Identifier or Voting
Session Identifier ;
(b) Voters using the Internet to connect to at least one Official Internet
Voting Website that
is secured from unauthorized manipulation; said connection between Voter and
Officials Internet
Voting Website may be via a Virtual Private Network connection or Double
Virtual Private
Network Connection or The Onion Router or Tomato Router or other type of
router providing
secure, anonymizing connections that is provided by a Third Party or Official
Network Devices and
Official Computers running Virtual Private Network software programs; and the
further steps and
methods of Voters hiding their personal device originating Internet Address
and their personal
Computer or Telephone or Device Machine Identifier by running software
programs to hide that
said information or by connecting to an anonymizing proxy server before
connecting to an Official
provided Virtual Private Network or Double Virtual Private Network, or The
Onion Router or
Tomato Router or other type of router providing secure, anonymizing
connections;
(c)(i) Voters navigating from zero, one or a plurality of webpage menus to a
secure Official
Internet webpage form that is used for validation of Ballot RSIDs and Ballot
PassCodes; Voters
computer internet browsers then receiving, verifying and error checking the
Official, Agent or Third
Party Certificate Authority Identity having acronym: CAI to confirm the
website is the Official,
Agent or Third Party website; Voters then proceeding if no CAI error is
detected, otherwise
optionally terminating if a serious CAI error is detected;
(c)(ii) Officials, Agents or Official Third Party Devices provide zero, one or
a plurality of
messages, images, numbers, and symbols with zero, one or a plurality of
requests that the Voter
provide a reply to confirm that it is a human interacting with the IVALS
system; the Voter
response and Rules of the Voting Session determine whether the Voter is
allowed to continue;
(d)(i) Voters accessing said secure Official webpage form, then Officials,
Agents or Third
Party Officials creating and correlating an Internet Validation Session ID
having acronym:
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IVALSID created by Officials computers and devices then correlated to each
particular connected
Voter;
(d)(ii) Voters data entering a Validation RSID and zero, one or a plurality of
correlated
Validation PassCodes or a Ballot Voting RSID and correlated Voting PassCode on
their local
computer Internet Browser webpage form, then submitting and transmitting said
webpage form and
Ballot RSID and Ballot PassCode to the Internet Validation System having
acronym: IVALS for
processing;
(e)(i) IVALS receives correlates the IVALSID to the Ballot RSID submitted,
records this
information along with the Voter computer IP address, date and time;
(e)(ii) IVALS computer system employs computer running software programs and
people to
determine whether there have been statistically numerous RSID Masters from the
Voter computer
IP address for a given time period, and if so, communicates Denial Of Service
to the Voter and
stops further processing of zero, one or a plurality of Voter submitted false
RSID's;
(e)(iii) whereby if there is no Denial of Service, the IVALS continues to
determine whether
the submitted Validation RSID or correlated Ballot Voting RSID is valid along
with zero, one or a
plurality of other said Ballot authentication and validation information items
and zero, one or a
plurality of Security Elements;
(e)(iv)(1) whereby if the Voter enters a Validation RSID that is determined to
be valid, the
Voter is shown Status information of the Ballot: Voted-OK, Voted-Error,
ActiveVoting,
Enabled2Vote, Disabled, Rescinded, Null&Void correlated to the Validation
RSID, but the Voter
is not shown the Ballot Voting RSID, Ballot PassCode nor any Ballot selections
of the Voter ¨ but
to aid validation, the Voter may be shown any or all of the available
Candidate and Proposals for
selection;
(e)(iv)(2) whereby if the Voter enters a Ballot Voting RSID that is determined
to be valid,
and a valid Ballot PassCode for the Ballot Voting RSID, then the Voter is
shown Ballot Status
information as well as the Ballot Validation RSID, Ballot Voting RSID, all
Ballot selections made
by the Voter;
(f)(i) whereby if the Voter enters a Ballot Voting PassCode RSID that is
determined to be
valid, and the Ballot Voting RSID has not been disabled, then the Enabled
Voter receives the
Validation RSID, Voter selections and zero, one or a plurality of other
information items associated
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with of the Ballot Voting RSID for review that may be used for voting,
excluding the Ballot Voting
PassCode;
(f)(ii) whereby upon submitting a valid Ballot Voting RSID, the IVALS prompts
the Voter,
a limited number of times, to provide zero, one or a plurality of Ballot
Voting PassCodes on a
secure website form; said Ballot Voting PassCode is then compared to the
Official Ballot Voting
PassCode that is correlated to the Ballot Voting RSID; if said Voter provided
PassCode matches the
Official Ballot PassCode for the same Ballot Voting RSID then the Voter is
granted access to the
Internet Voting System having acronym IVOTS, and access to the generated
Voting WebPage
correlated for the given Ballot Voting RSID;
(f)(iii) whereby zero, one or a plurality of Official people and zero, one or
a plurality of
computers running software programs, determine whether the Ballot Voting
PassCode provided is
correlated to the Ballot Voting RSID of steps (5)(d)(ii) and allows processing
to continue if they
match;
(f)(iv) for each Voter and for a plurality of Voters attempting to submit a
Valid Ballot
PassCode, the further steps and methods of IVALS counting and recording each
Valid Ballot
PassCode submission attempt so as to determine, per Voter, whether the number
of attempts to
provide a Valid Ballot Voting PassCode has exceeded limitations, then if the
number of attempts to
provide a Valid Ballot Voting PassCode has exceeded limitations, the further
steps of: temporarily
disabling the Ballot, sending a message notifying the correlated Voter,
signalling Officials,
recording a change of Ballot status to Disabled with grounds of Exceeded
PassCode Attempts;
(f)(v) the steps and methods for each Internet Ballot, of detecting,
reporting, and stopping
submission of Ballot RSIDs for Voting or Validation upon detecting not timely
receiving the Ballot
Voting RSID or Ballot Validation RSID being submitted to IVALS or IVOTS;
(f)(vi) if the Enabled Voter submitted Ballot Voting RSID has not already been
cast, said
Enabled Voter is connected to the Internet Voting System having acronym: IVOTS
which generates
a unique Internet Voting Session Identifier having acronym: IVOTSID with a
date-time-stamp that
are both correlated to the Ballot Voting RSID and zero, one or a plurality of
Ballot Validation RSID
that are correlated to the Ballot Voting RSID; said Enabled Voter is then
securely connected to an
Official or Agent or Official Third Party provided Internet pre-Voting WebPage
that provides the
graphical and auditory options: Begin, Wait, Exit whereby:
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(1) for the choice of Exit, the Enabled Voter exits Internet Voting System
without disabling
the Voting Ballot and Validation Ballot from future use and the Voter Status
is set to Valid;
(2) for the choice of Wait, IVOTS suspends the Enabled Voter Voting Session
and displays
a countdown timer on the webpage showing the time remaining to Begin or Exit
the Voting Session,
and if no choice is made before the countdown timer reaches zero then the
Enabled Voter is
automatically forced by IVOTS to exit said Internet Voting System without
disabling the Voting
Ballot and Validation Ballot from future use and the Voter Status is set to
Valid;
(3) for the choice of BeginVote:
(i) said Enabled Voter is connected by Official Voting Computer to the
Internet Voting System webpage;
(ii) a unique Internet Voting Session ID is generated, stored and associated
with the
Ballot Voting RSID provided by the Voter;
(iii) the IVOTS provides the Voter with zero, one or a plurality of choices
of:
(a) Candidates;
(b) areas to select, write, print or type Alternative Voter Candidates;
(c) Proposals;
(d) areas to select, write, print or type Alternative Voter Proposals;
(e) option to Abstain and Decline from Selecting and Voting for Candidates,
Proposals, Ideas or Political Parties or Groups; and further to Abstain and
Decline from said Voter
Writing in their alternative Candidates, Proposals, Ideas, Political Parties
or Groups;
(f) providing related information items on web page data and hyper-links to
access, search and navigate each Candidate biographies, each Candidate
political party affiliations
and policies, each Proposals descriptions, current date, current time, time
left until polling station
closes, Internet connection information, Official devices information, Voter
specific current voting
session completion information, Voter specific Voter devices information,
Voter specific Voting
Session Security information, Voters, Proxy Voters, Official and Official
Agents messages, status
data, warnings, errors, events, pending actions: authorized, unauthorized,
pending, completed,
suspended, stopped, cancelled, outstanding, delayed, rescinded, null&void;
(g) menus, links, audio and visual tools for navigating, searching and
accessing
each IVOTS Voting webpages and other related webpages;
(h) options for processing the IVOTS Voting webpage form and Voter selections:
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Submit, Reset, Pause, Save, Resume, Exit;
(i) options to store and communicate each Enabled Voter selections made and
Submitted for processing: Download, Print, Internet Publish, Internet EMail,
Telephone Voice
Message, Telephone Text Message, Facsimile Message, Interactive Television
Message;
(g)(i)(1) for each Enabled Voter and a plurality of Enabled Voters that
chooses to Abstain
from Voting for Candidates, the Candidates and Candidate Write-In portions are
cleared of all Voter
selections and the Candidates and Write-In Candidates portions of the IVOTS
Voting Ballot
webpage form is visually marked Abstained for the Voter to see, no selections
are permitted in those
portions, and the WOTS detects and records the said Abstained portions as not
being a voting error;
(g)(i)(2) for each Enabled Voter and a plurality of Enabled Voters that
chooses to Abstain
from Voting for Proposals, the Proposals and Proposals Write-In portions are
cleared of all Voter
selections and the Proposals and Write-In Proposals portions of the IVOTS
Voting Ballot webpage
form is visually marked Abstained for the Voter to see, no selections are
permitted in those portions,
and the IVOTS detects and records the said Abstained portions as not being a
voting error;
(g)(ii) for each Enabled Voter and a plurality of Enabled Voters that
completes and submits
their Ballot selections of Candidates, Proposals, Write-In Candidates, Write-
In Proposals:
(1) IVOTS software and zero, one or a plurality of Officials detecting and
identifying
zero, one or a plurality of errors on the aforesaid Submitted Ballot Voting
form then communicating
those errors to the directly correlated Enabled Voter and in general to each
Voter of a plurality of
Enabled Voters;
(2) zero, one or a plurality of Enabled Voters make zero, one or a plurality
of corrections,
zero, one or a plurality of times, until all Ballot Voting Selections of
Candidates, Write-In
Candidates, Write-In Proposals and Proposals are submitted without error;
(3) zero, one or a plurality of Enabled Voters, zero, one or a plurality of
times, resubmits
to IVOTS their respective Ballot and zero, one or a plurality of corrections
for zero, one or a
plurality of Candidate Selections, Write-In Candidates, Proposal Selections
and Write-In Proposals;
(h)(i) for each Enabled Voter and plurality of Enabled Voters, if all of the
said Ballot
Selections and Enabled Voter Write-In choices submitted are processed
successfully by IVOTS:
(1) a unique Ballot-Selection-Signature-Key is generated to precisely
duplicate the Ballot
selections made by the Voter;
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(2) a unique IVOTS Receipt ID is generated, and then correlated to the IVOTS
Session ID
and further correlated to the Ballot Voting RSID and to each Ballot Validation
RSID that is already
correlated to the Ballot Voting RSID;
(3) each said Voter is prompted by IVOTS to provide their own Voter Privacy
Key
comprised of a combination of any number of each Voter defined: PassCode,
PassWord,
PassPhrase, Signature, Initials, Glyph, Symbols, Picture, Music, Song, Poem,
Book, Personal
Security Number or pattern, and other personal validation reference to
privately sign to enable Voter
post-voting authentication and to enable secure encryption of each Voter
specific Voting Session;
(4) for each Voter of a plurality of Voters, adding the Voter Ballot Selection
Signature Keys
to the Voter Privacy Key to form a Voter Privacy Record;
(5) encrypting the Voter Privacy Record using the Voter Privacy Key items as
private
variables in an encryption algorithm provided or selected by the Voter or
using an Encryption
Algorithm provided by IVOTS or from a Third Party to create an Encrypted Voter
Privacy Record;
(6) redundantly storing the IVOTS Receipt ID, Session ID, Ballot Voting RSID,
Ballot
Voting PassCode, Ballot Validation RSID, Ballot Selections, Encrypted Voter
Privacy Record, date,
time, unique Location Identifier, unique Official Device Identifier, and zero,
one or a plurality of
other related information items as the BallotCast Record in at least one
Official BallotCast Data
Structure;
(7) securely transmitting to each Enabled Voter computer browser, an exact
copy of their
cast Ballot, rendered on the Voter computer internet browser;
(8) IVOTS allows the Enabled Voter to download a copy of their Voter
BallotCast Record,
typically via a link to download a PDF file that is optionally encrypted with
another Voter provided
BallotVote PDF Privacy Key; said copy file is certified a true copy and
digitally signed by IVOTS;
(9) optionally WOTS provides an internet link to a secure Voter provided
password
encrypted BallotCast webpage that when decrypted displays an exact copy of the
Voter Ballot,
Selections and Write-In Choices and components of the Ballot Cast Record of
prior step (v);
said BallotCast webpage may be separately provided by an Official Third Party,
and may be
restricted only to Eligible Voters; said webpage may optionally embed the
Ballot Voting RSID as
part of the Internet Universal Resource Locator webpage address used to locate
and access the
encrypted BallotCast webpage; said encypted BallotCast webpage may also
contain or be preceded
by a webpage that contains a data input field for the Voter to provide their
Voter Privacy Key, and
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to select or provide the correlated Encryption Algorithm that was used to
encrypt their Voter
Privacy Record so that when both said Key and Algorithm are provided and the
Voter selects a
webpage control button to start decryption, the webpage software initiates a
computer to run
software programs to use said Key and Algorithm to perform decryption of the
encrypted Voter
Privacy Record, which is displayed in the computer browser with an exact copy
of the cast Voting
Ballot when decryption succeeds;
(10) using the unique, private Ballot RSID as part of an Internet address to
organize and
privately store each Voter BallotCast webpage, and a plurality of Voter
BallotCast webpages;
(11) further steps and methods of securely transmitting the Ballot Cast Record
to zero, one
or a plurality of: Enabled Voters, Election Officials, Political Parties,
Candidates, News Media,
Government Officials, and zero, one or a plurality of other approved third
parties for processing
actions, verification, authentication, error detecting, error correcting,
publishing and auditing;
(12) Officials, IVOTS, or an Official Third Party creating, publishing and
continually
updating a publicly accessible Internet webpage that displays summaries of
BallotCast voting with
Voting Ballot RSID and tallies of correlated Voter selections and write-in
choices that are sorted by
Voting Region, Voting Area, Voting Area Polling Station Identifier; Officials,
IVOTS and zero, one
or a plurality of Official Third Parties sharing and transmitting exact copies
of said BallotCast
Summary webpage to zero, one or a plurality of Voters, non-Voters, Election
Officials, Political
Parties, Candidates, News Media, Government Officials, and zero, one or a
plurality of other
interested third parties for processing actions, verification, authentication,
error detecting, error
correcting, publishing and auditing;
(g)(ii)(1) creating and then transmitting zero, one or a plurality of Receipt
Confirmation
Documents to each Enabled Voter and a plurality of Enabled Voters either
electronically, using
methods of secure Universal Resource Locator having acronym: URL webpage
accessible by
Ballot ID and Ballot PassCode or Voter ID and Voter PassWord, and optionally
by sending a
confirmation EMail to each Voter provided EMail, and optionally by sending a
confirmation Fax or
Facsimile to the Voter specified Fax or Facsimile machine telephone number,
and optionally by text
messaging a confirmation message to each Voter provided cellular phone device
or tablet or
computer or other communications devices), and by using at least one said POEM
format, and
further by Officials or their delegates providing to a plurality of Voters at
least one certified,
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verifiable Receipt Documents to each Enabled Voter who has successfully
submitted their validated
Ballots in person or electronically or by using at least one said POEM format
or method;
(g)(ii)(2) and the further optional steps and methods of using the unique,
private Ballot
RSID as part of an Internet address to organize and privately store each Voter
webpage, as well as
all actions, tallies and summaries of Voter selections;
(g)(iii) for a plurality of Enabled Voters and Enabled Proxy Voters, Officials
providing at
least one POEM Voting Receipt to each said Voter or Proxy Voter whom
successfully casts their
Ballot, whereby said POEM Receipt is rendered to the Voter in the format
deliverable according to
the Voter interactive device; said POEM format of Voting Receipt data
comprises of: Voting
Session Identifier, Voting Session Descriptors Voter POEM Session Type Ballot
Voting RSID with
correlated Ballot Voting RSID barcode having a unique numeric value correlated
to the Ballot
Voting RSID, Voting Location Descriptors and Voting Location Identifier
PostalZipCode
Identifier, and Polling Station Identifier , Official Duty Title, Voter
Selected Candidates and
correlated Candidate Identifier , Proposal Heading Voter Selected Proposals
and correlated
Proposal Identifier , and correlated Voter Proposal Vote Voter Selected
Candidates and correlated
Candidate Identifier, Official Ballot Casting DateTimeStamp comprised of the
Date and Time the
Ballot was cast,
Voter Candidate Selection Signature concatenated to the front of the Voter
Proposal
Selection Signature with a combined alpha-numeric value, language symbols or
glyphs, or computer
language encoding that is correlated to the value of the said barcode for said
Voter Proposal
Selection Signature , said POEM format of the Voting Session Receipt
Identifier having a unique
alpha-numeric value, languge symbols or glyphs, or computer language encoding
that is correlated
to the value of the said barcode for said Voting Session Receipt Identifier
which is unique for each
of a plurality of Voting Session Receipt Documents , and POEM format of the
Voting Session
Validation Identifier having a unique alpha-numeric value for the originating
Official Voter
Validation Session that permitted the Ballot to be cast and is correlated to
the unique alpha-numeric
value, languge symbols or glyphs, or computer language encoding that is
correlated to the value of
the said barcode barcode of the Voting Session Validation Identifier; and
further whereby aforesaid
data is correlated to other hidden, unprinted Official data that is recorded
and stored at the time the
said ballot is cast; and further the aforesaid for a plurality of ballots
cast;
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and (h)(i) the further steps of applying zero, one or a plurality of/* the
aforementioned steps
and methods, actions, data or results zero, one or a plurality of times, to
zero, one or a plurality of
Ballots, Voters, Officials, or other legal entities, by zero, one or a
plurality of Voters, Officials or
other entities;
(h)(ii) modifying aforesaid steps and methods to enable Voter Registration via
Internet;
(h)(iii) further modifying of aforesaid methods to enable Validation, Error
Reporting and
Amendments of Voter Registration, Ballots, Proxy Assignment, Voter Contact
Updates, Proxy
Contact Updates, Voter Active-Inactive, Proxy Active-Inactive, Voter Ballot
Complaints, Voter
Registration Complaints ¨ all via the Internet Voting WebPages provided by
Officials, IVOTS, and
zero, one or a plurality of Official Agents, Official Third Partys;
and the further steps and methods of the Computerized Voting System of claim 1
by adding
the steps and methods of (H) Telephone Voting, Registration, Validation, Error
Reporting,
Amendments whereby :
(1) for Voters using their Telephone to connect to the Internet to connect to
at least one
Official Internet Voting Website that is secured from unauthorized
manipulation; said connection
between Voter and Officials Internet Voting Website may be via a Virtual
Private Network having
acronym: VPN connection or Double Virtual Private Network Connection Network
having
acronym: DVPN that is provided by a Third Party or Official Network Devices
and Official
Computers running Virtual Private Network software programs; and the further
steps and methods
of Voters hiding the originating Internet Address and Telephone Identifier by
running software
programs to hide that said information or by connecting to an anonymizing
proxy server before
connecting to an Official provided VPN or DVPN connection; thereafter the
steps and methods of
Internet Voting apply for Telephones connecting to the Internet;
(2) otherwise, for regular audio-only telephone methods, the following steps
and methods
apply whereby:
(a) zero, one or a plurality of Voters use a telephone to connect to the
Telephone Validation
System having acronym: TVALS managed by a plurality of Officials, Agents,
Official Third
Partys;
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(b) zero, one or a plurality of Official computers running software programs
creates a unique
Telephone Validation Session Identifier having acronym: TELVALSID that is
correlated to each
connected Telephone Session;
(c) for each active Telephone Session, a Telephone Recording Session is
created for each
Official Recording Device that is started; a Telephone Recording Session
Identifier having
acronym: TELVALRID is created and correlated to the Telephone Recording
Session and the
related Telephone Validation Session Identifier;
(d) zero, one or a plurality of Official computers running software programs
obtains and
utilizes zero, one or a plurality of authentication certificates from zero,
one or a plurality of Identity
Certificate Authorities that are then correlated to the TELVALSID;
(e) zero, one or a plurality of Official computers running software programs
optionally
determine the Voter Telephone Number to detect issues excessive guessing of
Ballot RSIDs and
Passcodes;
(f) the Voter uses the telephone keypad, verbally words, or any other
acceptable methods to
navigate through zero, one or a plurality of menus and menu options to
interact with the Telephone
validation menu;
(g) each Voter then uses a combination of: keypad tones, verbal words, text
message,
graphical touch-activated interface, menu option selections to enter a Ballot
Validation RSID or
Ballot Voting RSID;
(h) the said TELVALS records the Ballot RSID and correlates it to the said
TELVALSID,
with the date, time, Official Telephone Device ID and optionally, the Voter
telephone number when
available;
(i) the said TELVALS then determines whether any statistically significant
inhibitory issues
are related to the Voter telephone number or Ballot RSID provided, and if so,
then communicates
Denial Of Service to the Voter; otherwise,
(j)(i) the said TVALS processing determining whether the Ballot Validation
RSID or
correlated Ballot Voting RSID are valid and still usable for voting,
processing any other essential
information;
(j)(ii) Voters using their telephone keypad for data entering a Validation
RSID and
Validation PassCode or a Ballot Voting RSID and Voting PassCode, transmitting
said Ballot RSID
and Ballot PassCode to the Telephone Validation System for processing;
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(j)(iii) the said TELVALS receives and correlates the said TELVALSID to the
submitted
Ballot RSID, recording this information along with the Voter computer IP
address, date and time
and Official Telephone Device ID and Voter Telephone Number when available;
(j)(iv) the said TELVALS computer system employs computer running software
programs
and people to determine whether there have been statistically numerous RSID
Masters from the
Voter Telephone Number for a given time period, and if so, communicates Denial
Of Service to the
Voter and stops further validation, authentication processing for each of
zero, one or a plurality of
Voter submitted false RSID's;
(k)(v) whereby if there is no Denial of Service, the said TELVALS continues to
determine
whether the submitted Validation RSID or correlated Ballot Voting RSID is
valid along with zero,
one or a plurality of other information items;
(k)(vi)(1) whereby if the Voter enters a Validation RSID that is determined to
be valid, the
Voter is told Status information of the Ballot: Voted-OK, Voted-Error,
ActiveVoting,
Enab1ed2Vote, Disabled, Rescinded, Null&Void that is correlated to the Voter
provided said
Validation RSID, but is not told the Ballot Voting RSID, Ballot PassCode nor
any Ballot selections
of the Voter;
(k)(vi)(2) whereby if the Voter enters a Ballot Voting RSID that is determined
to be valid,
and the correlated Ballot PassCode that is found to be valid for the Ballot
Voting RSID, then the
Voter is told Voting Ballot Status information as well as the Ballot
Validation RSID, Ballot Voting
RSID, and all of the Ballot selections made by the Voter;
(1)(i) whereby if the Voter enters a Ballot Voting PassCode RSID that is
determined to be
valid, and the Ballot Voting RSID has not been disabled, then the Enabled
Voter is informed of
zero, one or a plurality of all Personal and Official information items
associated with of the Ballot
Voting RSID that may be used for voting, and are further given the opportunity
to change their
personal information, and to apply to Officials to change the Official
provided Ballot Voting
PassCode;
(1)(ii) whereby upon submitting a valid Ballot Voting RSID, the IVALS prompts
the Voter,
a limited number of times, to provide zero, one or a plurality of Ballot
Voting PassCodes; said
Ballot Voting PassCode is then compared to the Official Ballot Voting PassCode
that is correlated
to the Ballot Voting RSID; if said Voter provided PassCode matches the
Official Ballot PassCode
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for the same Ballot Voting RSID then the Voter is granted access to TELVOTS
and the correlated
Telephone Voting Record generated for that specific Ballot Voting RSID;
(1)(iii) whereby zero, one or a plurality of Official people and zero, one or
a plurality of
computers running software programs, determine whether the Ballot Voting
PassCode provided is
correlated to the Ballot Voting RSID provided earlier and allows processing to
continue if they
match;
(1)(iv) for each Voter and for a plurality of Voters attempting to submit a
Valid Ballot
PassCode, the further steps and methods of TELVALS counting and recording each
Valid Ballot
PassCode submission attempt so as to determine, per Voter, whether the number
of attempts to
provide a Valid Ballot Voting PassCode has exceeded limitations, then if the
number of attempts to
provide a Valid Ballot Voting PassCode has exceeded limitations, the further
steps of: temporarily
disabling the Ballot, sending a message notifying the correlated Voter,
signalling Officials,
recording a change of Ballot status to Disabled with grounds of Exceeded
PassCode Attempts;
(1)(v) the steps and methods for each Intemet Ballot, of detecting, reporting,
and stopping
submission of Ballot RSIDs for Voting or Validation upon detecting not timely
receiving the Ballot
Voting RSID or Ballot Validation RSID being submitted to TELVALS or TELVOTS;
(1)(vi) if the Enabled Voter submitted Ballot Voting RSID has not already been
cast, said
Enabled Voter is connected to the Telephone Voting System having acronym
TELVOTS which
generates a unique Telephone Voting Session Identifier having acronym
TELVOTSID, with a date-
time-stamp that are both correlated to the Ballot Voting RSID and zero, one or
a plurality of Ballot
Validation RSID that are correlated to the Ballot Voting RSID; said Enabled
Voter is then securely
connected to an Official or Agent or Official Third Party provided Telephone
pre-Voting Recorder
that provides the graphical and auditory options: Begin, Wait, Exit whereby:
(1) for the choice of Exit, the Enabled Voter exits the Telephone Voting
System without
disabling the Voting Ballot and Validation Ballot from future use and the
Voter Status is set to
Valid; (2) for the choice of Wait, TELVOTS suspends the Enabled Voter Voting
Session and starts
an audible countdown timer that states at regular intervals, the time
remaining to Begin or Exit the
Voting Session, and if no choice is made before the countdown timer reaches
zero then the Enabled
Voter is automatically forced by TELVOTS to exit the Telephone Voting System
without disabling
the Voting Ballot and Validation Ballot from future use and the Voter Status
is set to Valid;
(3) for the choice of BeginVote:
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(i) said Enabled Voter is connected by Official Voting Computer to the
Telephone Voting System;
(ii) a unique Internet Voting Session ID is generated, stored and associated
with the
Ballot Voting RSID provided by the Voter;
(iii) the TELVOTS provides the Voter with zero, one or a plurality of choices
of:
(a) Candidates;
(b) areas to select or speak zero, one or a plurality of Alternative Voter
Candidates;
(c) Proposals;
(d) areas to select or speak zero, one or a plurality of Alternative Voter
Proposals;
(e) option to Abstain or Decline from Voting for Candidates, Proposals;
(f) employing related information items comprised of: audible data and audio-
links to search, navigate and access each Candidate biographies, each
Candidate political party
affiliations and policies, each Proposals descriptions, current date, current
time, time left until
polling station closes, connection information, Official devices information,
Voter specific current
voting session completion information, Voter specific Voter devices
information, Voter specific
Voting Session Security information, Voters, Proxy Voters, Official and
Official Agents messages,
status data, warnings, errors, events, pending actions comprised of:
authorized, unauthorized,
pending, completed, suspended, stopped, cancelled, rescinded, null&void,
outstanding, delayed ;
(g) menus, audio links, audio tools for navigating and searching TELVOTS
Voting
audio data pages;
(h) options for processing the TELVOTS Voting audio recording and correlated
Voter selections: Submit, Reset, Pause, Save, Resume, Exit;
(i) audio command options to store and communicate each Enabled Voter Ballot
selections made and Submitted for processing: Download, Print, Internet
Publish, Internet EMail,
Telephone Voice Message, Telephone Text Message, Facsimile Message,
Interactive Television
Message;
(m)(i)(1) for each Enabled Voter and a plurality of Enabled Voters that
chooses to Abstain
from Voting for Candidates, the Candidates and Candidate Write-In portions are
cleared of all Voter
selections and the Candidates and Write-In Candidates portions of the IVOTS
Voting Ballot
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webpage form is visually marked Abstained for the Voter to see, no selections
are permitted in those
portions, and the IVOTS detects and records the said Abstained portions as not
being a voting error;
(m)(i)(2) for each Enabled Voter and a plurality of Enabled Voters that
chooses to Abstain
from Voting for Proposals, the Proposals and Proposals Write-In portions are
cleared of all Voter
selections and the Proposals and Write-In Proposals portions of the IVOTS
Voting Ballot webpage
form is visually marked Abstained for the Voter to see, no selections are
permitted in those portions,
and the TELVOTS detects and records the said Abstained portions as not being a
voting error;
(m)(ii) for each Enabled Voter and a plurality of Enabled Voters that
completes and submits
their Ballot selections of Candidates, Proposals, Write-In Candidates, Write-
In Proposals using
computer, personal communications device or telephone keypad menu selections
or voice
commands;
(1) TELVOTS software and zero, one or a plurality of Officials detecting and
identifying zero, one or a plurality of errors on the aforesaid Submitted
Ballot Voting form then
communicating those errors to the directly correlated Enabled Voter and in
general to each Voter of
a plurality of Enabled Voters;
(2) zero, one or a plurality of Enabled Voters make zero, one or a plurality
of corrections,
zero, one or a plurality of times, until all Ballot Voting Selections of
Candidates, Write-In
Candidates, Write-In Proposals and Proposals are submitted without error using
voice commands or
keypad selections;
(3) zero, one or a plurality of Enabled Voters, zero, one or a plurality of
times, resubmits
to TELVOTS their respective Ballot and zero, one or a plurality of corrections
for zero, one or a
plurality of Candidate Selections, Write-In Candidates, Proposal Selections
and Write-In Proposals;
(n)(i) for each Enabled Voter and plurality of Enabled Voters, if all of the
said Ballot
Selections and Enabled Voter Write-In choices submitted are processed
successfully by TELVOTS:
(1) creating a unique set of Ballot-Selection-Signature-Keys for each said
Voter generating a
unique Ballot-Selection-Signature-Key comprised a series of alpha-numeric
language glyph
symbols by using at least one computer or telephone application program
running a computational
hashing or encoding alogorithm to calculate a unique hash value for each set
of Ballot Selections
that are assembled and recorded so as to precisely duplicate each of the zero,
one or plurality of
Ballot selections made by the Voter; and further steps and methods of creating
said Ballot-
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Selection-Signature-Keys and unqiue hashing values for a each of plurality of
Voters and for each
said plurality of Voters respective Voters Ballot Selections;
(2) a unique TELVOTS Receipt ID is generated, and then correlated to the
TELVOTS
Session lD and further correlated to the said Ballot Voting RSID and to each
Ballot Validation
RSID of at least one Ballot Validation RSID that is already correlated to the
said Ballot Voting
RSID;
(3) the Voter is prompted by TELVOTS to provide their own Voter Privacy Key
comprised
of a unique combination of PassCode, PassWord, PassPhrase, Music, Song, Poem,
Personal
Identification Number or pattem, or other personal validation text, picture,
glyph or audio reference
to privately sign to enable Voter post-voting authentication and to enable
secure encryption of each
Voter specific Voting Session;
(4) for each Voter of a plurality of Voters, adding the Voter Ballot Selection
Signature Keys
to the Voter Privacy Key to form a Voter Privacy Record;
(5) encrypting the Voter Privacy Record using the Voter Privacy Key items as
private
variables in an encryption algorithm provided or selected by the Voter or
using an Encryption
Algorithm provided by TELVOTS or from a Third Party to create an Encrypted
Voter Privacy
Record;
(6) redundantly storing the TELVOTS Receipt ID, Session ID, Ballot Voting
RSID, Ballot
Voting PassCode, Ballot Validation RSID, Ballot Selections, Encrypted Voter
Privacy Record, date,
time, unique Location Identifier, unique Official Device Identifier, and zero,
one or a plurality of
other related information items as the BallotCast Record in at least one
Official BallotCast Data
Structure;
(7) securely transmitting to each Enabled Voter, an exact copy of their cast
Ballot;
(8) TELVOTS allows the Enabled Voter to fax or email a copy of their Voter
BallotCast
Record, typically a PDF file that is optionally encrypted with another Voter
provided BallotVote
PDF Privacy Key; said copy file is certified a true copy and digitally signed
by TELVOTS;
(9) optionally TELVOTS provides an intemet link to a secure Voter provided
password
encrypted BallotCast webpage that when decrypted displays an exact copy of the
Voter Ballot,
Selections and Write-In Choices and components of the Ballot Cast Record; said
BallotCast
webpage may be separately provided by an Official Third Party, and may be
restricted only to
Eligible Voters; said webpage may optionally embed the Ballot Voting RSID as
part of the Intemet
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Universal Resource Locator webpage address used to locate and access the
encrypted BallotCast
webpage; said encypted BallotCast webpage may also contain or be preceded by a
webpage that
contains a data input field for the Voter to provide their Voter Privacy Key,
and to select or provide
the correlated Encryption Algorithm that was used to encrypt their Voter
Privacy Record so that
when both said Key and Algorithm are provided and the Voter selects a webpage
control button to
start decryption, the webpage software initiates a computer to run software
programs to use said
Key and Algorithm to perform decryption of the encrypted Voter Privacy Record,
which is
displayed in the computer browser with an exact copy of the cast Voting Ballot
when decryption
succeeds;
(10) using the unique, private Ballot RSID as part of an Internet address to
organize and
privately store each Voter BallotCast webpage, and a plurality of Voter
BallotCast webpages;
(11) further steps and methods of securely transmitting the Ballot Cast Record
to zero, one
or a plurality of: Enabled Voters, Election Officials, Political Parties,
Candidates, News Media,
Government Officials, and zero, one or a plurality of other approved third
parties for processing
actions, verification, authentication, error detecting, error correcting,
publishing and auditing;
(12) Officials, TELVOTS, or an Official Third Party creating, publishing and
continually
updating a publicly accessible Internet webpage that displays summaries of
BallotCast voting with
Voting Ballot RSID and tallies of correlated Voter selections and write-in
choices that are sorted by
Voting Region, Voting Area, Voting Area Polling Station Identifier; Officials,
TELVOTS and zero,
one or a plurality of Official Third Parties sharing and transmitting exact
copies of said BallotCast
Summary webpage to zero, one or a plurality of Voters, non-Voters, Election
Officials, Political
Parties, Candidates, News Media, Government Officials, and zero, one or a
plurality of other
interested third parties for processing actions, verification, authentication,
error detecting, error
correcting, publishing and auditing;
(g)(ii)(1) creating and then transmitting zero, one or a plurality of Receipt
Confirmation
Documents to each Enabled Voter and a plurality of Enabled Voters either
electronically, using
methods of secure Universal Resource Locator webpage accessible by Ballot ID
and Ballot
PassCode or Voter ID and Voter PassWord, and optionally by sending a
confirmation EMail to each
Voter provided EMail, and optionally by sending a confirmation Fax or
Facsimile to the Voter
specified Fax or Facsimile machine telephone number, and optionally by text
messaging a
confirmation message to each Voter provided cellular phone device or tablet or
computer or other
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communications devices, and by using at least one POEM format, or a
combination of POEM
formats, and by Officials or their delegates providing to a plurality of
Voters at least one certified,
verifiable Receipt Documents to each Enabled Voter who has successfully
submitted their validated
Ballots in person or electronically or by using zero, one or plurality of
other POEM formats and
methods of said delivery communication;
(g)(ii)(2) and the further optional steps and methods of using the unique,
private Ballot
RSID as part of an Intemet address to organize and privately store each Voter
webpage, as well as
all actions, tallies and summaries of Voter selections;
(g)(iii) for a plurality of Enabled Voters and Enabled Proxy Voters, Officials
providing at
least one POEM Voting Receipt to each said Voter or Proxy Voter whom
successfully casts their
Ballot, whereby said POEM Receipt is rendered to the Voter in the format
deliverable according to
the Voter interactive device; said POEM Voting Receipt data comprises of:
Voting Session
Identifier, Voting Session Descriptors, Voter POEM Session Type, Ballot Voting
RSID with
correlated Ballot Voting RSID barcode having a unique numeric value correlated
to the Ballot
Voting RSID, Voting Location Descriptors and Voting Location Identifier,
PostalZipCode
Identifier, , and Polling Station Identifier, , Official Duty Title, Voter
Selected Candidates and
correlated Candidate Identifier, Proposal Heading, Voter Selected Proposals
and correlated Proposal
Identifier, , and correlated Voter Proposal Vote Voter Selected Candidates and
correlated Candidate
Identifier, , Official Ballot Casting DateTimeStamp ,
Voter Candidate Selection Signature concatenated to the front of the Voter
Proposal
Selection Signature with a combined alpha-numeric value that is correlated to
the barcode which
has a correlated unique alpha-numeric or language glyph symbols or machine
computed digital or
digitally encoded value, POEM format Voting Session Receipt Identifier having
a unique alpha-
numeric or language glyph symbols or machine computed digital or digitally
encoded value for this
Voting Session Receipt Document that is correlated to the barcode having a
correlated value , of
said Voting Session Receipt Identifier, and POEM format Voting Session
Validation Identifier
having a unique alpha-numeric or language glyph symbols or machine computed
digital or digitally
encoded value for the originating Official Voter Validation Session that
permits the Ballot to be
cast in the Active Voting Session, and is correlated to the value of the
barcode which has a
correlated unique alpha-numeric or language glyph symbols or machine computed
digital or
digitally encoded value for the Voting Session Validation Identifier; and
further whereby aforesaid
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data is correlated to other hidden, unprinted Official data that is recorded
and stored at the time the
ballot is cast;
and (h)(i) the further steps of applying zero, one or a plurality of the
aforementioned steps
and methods, actions, data or results zero, one or a plurality of times, to
zero, one or a plurality of
Ballots, Voters, Officials, or other legal entities, by zero, one or a
plurality of Voters, Officials or
other entities;
(h)(ii) modifying aforesaid steps and methods to enable Voter Registration via
Intemet;
(h)(iii) further modifying of aforesaid methods to enable Validation, Error
Reporting and
Amendments of Voter Registration, Ballots, Proxy Assignment, Voter Contact
Updates, Proxy
Contact Updates, Voter Active-Inactive, Proxy Active-Inactive, Voter Ballot
Complaints, Voter
Registration Complaints ¨ all via the Intemet Voting WebPages provided by
Officials, TELVOTS,
and zero, one or a plurality of Official Agents, Official Third Partys;
(i)(1) further modifying aforesaid TELVOTS and TELVALS steps methods to enable
Voter Registration and amendments, Voter Language Selection and amendments,
Voter Document
Processing, Ballot Validation and Ballot Authentication and Ballot Voting via
Telephone; and other
further modifying of aforesaid TELVALS and TELVOTS steps and methods so as to
enable
Validation, Error Reporting and Amendments of Voter Registration, Ballots,
Proxy Assignment,
Voter Contact Updates, Proxy Contact Updates, Voter Active-Inactive, Proxy
Active-Inactive,
Voter Ballot Complaints, Voter Registration Complaints ¨ all via Telephone
employing telephone
or computer telephony applications for sending, receiving, processing,
validating, authenticating,
error detecting, error correcting, error reporting, filing complaints,
processing investigations and
amendments and replacement documents and containers, providing security,
providing tallying,
verification and certification as well as calculations, providing photographic
images, Document and
Container scanning Templates, Data Fields and data, as well as Voter
Selections of Candidates and
Proposals, with access to Officials, Agents, Official Voting Devices, Official
Intemet Webservers
and Official Intemet webpages by Telephone devices, touch-tone codes, Audio
recordings. Video
recordings, and Telephone Texting messages and related information of
aforesaid data;
( I ) Fax or Facsimile Voting, Registration, Validation, Error Reporting,
Amendments
employing the steps and methods of claim 1, and the further steps and methods
of Validation,
Registration and Voting by Facsimile transmission delivery method having
acronym: Fax, or
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Electronic Mail transmission delivery method having acronym: Email or by said
Telephone or
Computer Message Texting whereby:
(il) at least one and each of a plurality of Voter follows in general the
modified previous
steps and methods of said Intemet and Telephone Validation and Voting, such
that zero, one or a
plurality of Voters generally do, but are not limited to:
(ila) obtains and utilizes zero, one or a plurality of authentication
certificates from zero, one
or a plurality of certificate authorities;
(ilb) any facsimile device or computer running facsimile software or Document
processing software or EMail software or any other combination of electronic
devices and software
in conjunction with zero, one or a plurality of and any types of
communications system and methods
to connect to the Fax or Facsimile and EMail Validation System having
acronym:FEVALS;
(i2) and the further optional steps and methods of using the unique, private
Ballot RSID
as part of an Intemet address to organize and privately store each Voter
webpage, as well as all
actions, tallies and summaries of Voter selections; and
(i3) the further, optional, steps and methods for each Fax Facsimile or EMail
Ballot, to
detect, report and then: (a) stop processing of the appropriate Fax or
Facsimile-EMail Ballot cast via
FEVOTS upon detecting any types of critical failures, failure of timely
Receipt of the Printed
Master or Receipt Ballot, or, (b) of disregarding zero, one or a plurality of
failures of non-critical
Events; delivery of zero, one or a plurality of Printed or optically rendered
Master or Receipt
Ballots correlated to a Fax or Facsimile-EMail Ballot cast via FEVOTS;
(i4) modifying aforesaid methods to enable Voter Registration via Fax or
Facsimile or
EMail; and other further modifying of aforesaid methods to enable Validation,
Error Reporting and
Amendments of Voter Registration, Ballots, Proxy Assignment, Voter Contact
Updates, Proxy
Contact Updates, Voter Active-Inactive, Proxy Active-Inactive, Voter Ballot
Complaints, Voter
Registration Complaints ¨ all via Facsimile or Email or Telephone Texting;
(J) Electronic Mail and Intemet Webpage Voting, Registration, Validation,
Error
Reporting, Amendments whereby zero, one or a plurality of and a plurality of
Voters and Proxy
Voters:
(1) utilize computer or electronic data devices running EMail communications
software
operating in conjunction with a combination of electronic communications and
security devices and
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software acting to connect with zero, one or a plurality of and communications
systems operating to
connect to the Voting Session Officials EMail Validation System having
acronym:EMVALS;
(2) EMVALS and zero, one or a plurality of Voters obtains and utilizes zero,
one or a
plurality of authentication certificates from zero, one or a plurality of
certificate authorities that is
correlated to each respective, originating EMVSID which is recorded and stored
by EMVALS;
(3) whereupon a Voter successfully connects to the Official EMVAL System by
sending
an EMail to the EMVALS whereupon Receipt of said Voter EMail, a unique EMail
Validation
Session Identifier having acronym:EMVSID which is generated by the Official
EMVAL System
and then is associated with the EMVAL Validation Session for that particular
Voter EMail address
and the submitted Voter EMail Initial Contact Message having acronym: VEM-ICM
;
(4) for a plurality and each VEM-ICM contains and submits the Voter Email
correlated
Interrnet address, Ballot Validation RSID, optional Voter Registration ID and
optional correlated
Ballot PassCode ¨ which are recorded and stored by EMVALS along with the Date,
Time and Voter
EMail Message Header and related data which enables error checking of the VEM-
ICM contents
and tracing the source, distribution and transit-delivery path of each VEM-
ICM;
(5) EMVALS then employs at least one computers running software programs
applying
algorithms and instructions code for receiving and interpreting said Document
and Container
reading template obtained optical images and data fields for accurate symbol,
graphic and alpha-
numeric or language glyph character recognition as well as so as to securely
receive and process the
EM-ICM;
(6) whereby zero, one or a plurality of Officials employ EMVALS to run
computer
software that automatically checks the validity and authenticity of the VEM-
ICM contents
submitted to Official data sources, and if the VEM-ICM contents and Voter
EMail are valid and
authentic, and if not received from a known blacklisted, fraudulent SPAM EMail
source then :
(i) EMVALS then generates an EMICM-VALID that is correlated to the VEM-ICM and
EMVSID and is stored by EMVALS;
(ii) and then EMVALS generates and sends to the Voter provided VEM-ICM EMail
address: an Official Validation EMail Message having acronym: EM-OVAL with an
a new Official
Voting EMail Address to reply to with a subject header of the EMVSID and EMICM-
VALID and
further that the Official vote enabling EMail message also contains an
attached or embedded
electronic optically readable EMail Voting Ballot which replicates the entire
contents of the regular
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Official Voting Ballot and contains at least the Ballot Voting RSID, Ballot
and Voting Session data,
Voting Choices, and optional Write-In choices, optional Voter security data,
and optional
orientation Marks and alignment Marks, and further providing a computer
software Internet link to
an Officials Internet Voting Webpage that is visually rendered as an exact
replica of the Official
Voting Ballot or approximation thereof for alternative use for voting;
(7) zero, one or a plurality of EMVALS connected and validated-authenticated
Voters
then replies to EMVALS by submitting their completed EMail Voting Ballot and
correlated Ballot
PassCode to the EMVALS by reply to the original Official Voting EMail message
that validated the
EM-ICM or alternatively, by completing and submitting one or a plurality of
the Official Internet
Webpage forms designated for this purpose;
(8) for each of at least one and for a plurality of submitted EMail Ballots,
said EMVALS:
(i) receives and processes each EMail Completed Voting Ballot having acronym:
EM-
CVB and upon receiving and successfully verifying the EM-CVB was received
before the Expiry
Date and Expiry Time for a valid, active Voting Session; and further upon
confirming that the
validity of the Voter submitted Ballot Voting RSID and correlated Ballot
PassCode;
(ii) disables and excludes from tallying the correlated Internet Voting
Webpage for each
said EM-CVB;
(iii) disables and excludes any other subsequent Ballot tallying submissions
for the Ballot
Voting RSID, but EMVALS still accepts submission for Ballot processing error
complaints and
Damaged, Lost or Stolen complaints for submitted Ballot RSID;
(iv) EMVALS generates an internal unique Transaction Identifier having
acronym:
EMTID then transfers the received EM-VB to the EMail Submitted Ballot System
having acronym:
EMSBS for authenticating, analyzing, tallying, certifying, publishing or
alternatively rejecting EM-
VCB upon detecting flawed validation, or flawed authentication, an improperly
completed Ballot,
or, an invalid Ballot Voting RSID, or an invalid Ballot PassCode;
(9) zero, one or a plurality of EMVALS connected and validated-authenticated
Voters
then replies to EMVALS by submitting their completed EMail Voting Ballot and
correlated Ballot
PassCode to the EMVALS by reply to the original Official Voting EMail message
that validated the
EM-ICM or alternatively, by completing and submitting the Internet Voting
Webpage forms;
(10) for a plurality of EMail Ballots, said EMVALS:
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(i) receives and processes each EMail Completed Voting Ballot having acronym:
EM-
CVB and upon receiving and successfully verifying the EM-CVB was received
before the Expiry
Date and Expiry Time for a valid, active Voting Session; and further upon
confirming that the
validity of the Voter submitted Ballot Voting RSID and correlated Ballot
PassCode;
(ii) disables and excludes from tallying the correlated Intemet Voting Webpage
for
each said EM-CVB ;
(iii) disables and excludes all other subsequent Ballot tallying submissions
for the
Ballot Voting RSID, but EMVALS still accepts submission for Ballot processing
error complaints
and Damaged, Lost or Stolen complaints for all Ballot RSID and for a plurality
of Ballot RSIDs;
(iv) EMVALS generates an intemal unique Transaction Identifier having acronym:
EMVALS-TID then transfers the received EM-CVB to the EMail Submitted Ballot
System having
acronym: EMSBS for authenticating, analyzing, tallying, certifying, publishing
or altematively
rejecting EM-CVB upon detecting flawed authentication, improperly completed
Ballot or invalid
Ballot Voting RSID or invalid Ballot PassCode;
(11) for a plurality of and for each successful transfer of each EM-VCB from
EMVALS:
(i) the EMSBS generates a unique Session Identifier Receipt having acronym:
EMSBS-SIDR that is correlated to the EMVALS-Transaction Identifier having
acronym EMVALS-
TID, or,
(ii) upon failure of transfer from EMVALS, generating at least one error
message and
retrying the said transfer automatically zero, one or a plurality of times;
(12) for each successful transfer of the prior step, EMSBS then employs zero,
one or a
plurality of steps and methods according to claim 9 along with computers
running software for
optical image and character recognition so as to validate any number data
items securely receive and
process the EM-VCB and correlated data comprised of: Ballot Voting RSID,
Ballot PassCode,
Voting Session Identifier and Limits of Use and Expiry data, Official Security
Elements, Voter
Selections, Voter Write-In Choices, Voter Personal Security Items, orientation
and alignment
Marks, and attached electronic POEM format of the certified exact copy of
original optical image
files, identification data for Document reading template and said template
data fields;
(13) if the Ballot Selections are processed successfully by EMSBS, then a
unique
EMSBS Receipt ID having acronym: EMSBS-OKRECID is generated, then correlated
to the
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EMSBS Session ID and further correlated to Voting System Identifiers Ballot
Voting RSID, Ballot
PassCode, Validation RSID for the correlated Ballot Voting RSID;
(14) permanently, securely and redundantly receiving, processing, storing,
transmitting:
zero, one or a plurality of: Voting System ID, Receipt ID, Session ID, Ballot
Voting RSID, Ballot
Voting PassCode, Ballot Validation RSID, Ballot Selections, Voter Write-In
selections, Voter
Personal Security Items, and zero, one or a plurality of other related
information items are for
verification, investigation and accounting in zero, one or a plurality of
formats, for publishing,
investigation, verification and accounting in any said POEM format to each of
a plurality of Voters,
Election Officials, Official Agents, Political Parties, Candidates, and to
zero, one or a plurality of
other approved third parties;
(15) the further steps and methods of transmitting zero, one or a plurality of
Receipt
Confirmation Documents to each successful Voter either electronically, using
said delivery methods
of Fax or Facsimile transmission confirmation copy of Ballot cast, sent back
to each Voter used
submitting: Fax or Facsimile machine, webpage with access requiring Voter
PassWord or Ballot
PassCode, EMail address, interactive television, cell phone, land line phone,
or, to each Voter
provided EMail address, Fax or Facsimile telephone number, private cellular
telephone, interactive
television, voting terminal, or, providing a paper Receipt Documents that is
mailed or given in
person to each Voter and each Proxy Voter who has successfully submitted their
BallotN or
Registration or Voter Language Selection forms;
(16) the further optional steps and methods of using the unique, private
Ballot RSID as
part of an Intemet address to organize and privately store each Voter webpage,
as well as all actions,
tallies and summaries of Voter selections;
(17) stopping processing of the zero, one or a plurality of submitted EMail
Ballots upon
detecting of critical failure Events, non-correctable data errors, substantial
data processing or
communications errors, failure of timely Receipt of the printed Master or
Receipt Ballot, or,
disregarding zero, one or a plurality of non-critical failures or relying upon
self-correcting artificial
intelligence software algorithms to detect, locate, correct, re-verify
erroneous data, Objects,
Processes, Services Events, messages, and signals of this invention;
(18) further modifying of aforesaid methods to enable Validation, Error
Reporting and
Amendments of Voter Registration, Ballots, Proxy Assignment, Voter Contact
Updates, Proxy
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Contact Updates, Voter Active-Inactive, Proxy Active-Inactive, Voter Ballot
Complaints, Voter
Registration Complaints, Voter Ballot Amendments, Voter Registration
Amendments;
(19) repeating with modifying said steps of EMail Voting, Registration, Error
Reporting,
Amendments, so as to enable said steps for the method of Interactive
Television Voting,
Registration, Error Reporting, Amendments by substituting use of an
interactive television device
connected to a television network or the Internet in place of a computer
terminal or Internet tablet
device connected to the Internet; and further Voter selecting appropriate
interactive television
channel or correlated secure Universal Resource Locator having acronym: URL
address of the
Internet or private intranet or secure telephone communication line, so as to
enable interactive
voting, registration, error reporting and amendments processing, results
publishing; enabling and
processing aforesaid with modified steps of EMail Voting, EMail Registration,
EMail Error
Reporting, EMail Amendments, EMail Results Publishing;
(K) and for all of the said methods of voting: In Person, By Proxy, Postal
Mail, Courier,
Email, Internet, Audio, Video, Fax or Facsimile, Telephone, Telephone Texting,
Interactive
Television the further steps and methods of each Voter (i) affixing zero, one
or a plurality of
personal Identifiers their personal signature, personal verification data,
private PassWord, personal
EMail address, and zero, one or a plurality of date or time information to
zero, one or a plurality of
paper, or electronic Ballots, Registration forms, data Containers or other
types of Documents of this
invention, including the Master Voter Registration form , Master Language
preference form, Whole
Ballot Receipt part, and (ii) further steps and methods of affixing per step a
unique Container
Identifier either inside to protect private sensitive data, or, upon the
outside, or a combination
thereof per each items, so as to be upon or within each of a plurality of
Delivery Containers and
each of a plurality Return Containers of this invention; and the further step
of zero, one or a
plurality of Voters or Proxy Voters generating a digital signature or applying
their personal Voter
Registration Identifier or Proxy Registration Identifier and applies at least
one digital signature
algorithm to digitally sign zero, one or a plurality of Documents: Voter
Ballot, Voter Registration,
Voter Language selection, and zero, one or a plurality of any types of
Containers, and zero, one or a
plurality of affidavits for Ballot replacement; for each Voter and for a
plurality of Voter, at least one
Official applies zero, one or a plurality of digital signature algorithm to
digitally sign each aforesaid
Documents successfully submitted to said Officials;
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(L) for zero, one or a plurality of Ballots being cast, zero, one or a
plurality of Officials
may optionally first determine if the Ballot has previously been activated for
use by zero, one or a
plurality of Ballot Activation Documents and then separating correlated Ballot
processing as per
Voting Session rules;
(M) the further steps and methods of applying zero, one or a plurality of
Ballot Voting
PassCodes, Ballot Validation PassCodes, Voter Registration PassCodes, Voter
Proxy Assign
PassCodes, Voter Language Selection PassCodes, Voter Contact Update PassCodes,
Voter Ballot
processing complaint PassCodes, Voter Registration complaint PassCodes, Voter
PassWords,
separately or in combination with zero, one or a plurality of symmetric or
asymmetric or both
symmetric and asymmetric digital data encryption key pairs, and zero, one or a
plurality of digital
key certificates by using at least one computers running software programs
employing encrypting
algorithms and decrypting algorithms to digitally sign, digitally
authenticate, encrypt, decrypt, read
and secure a least one and for each of a plurality of: Documents, Containers,
Events, Objects,
Security Items, Elements & Processes, Communications, Amendments,
Investigations, Error
Detection, Correction & Reporting, Voter Ballot data sets, Voter Registration
data sets, Voter
Language data sets, Voter Personal Security Items, Containers, system data
sets, processing data
sets transaction Identifiers, Ballot images, Registration form images,
Language selection form
images, Container images, any types of Voter identification images, any types
of Document images,
any types of affidavits, any types of Documents, communications, data
storages, images, reports or
tallies of the invention; this invention shall also include any related or
further modifications of the
aforesaid steps so as to meet the spirit of the invention and unique goals of
any voting session.
[Claim 19] The Computerized Voting System of claim I wherein: A plurality of
Officials, Official Agents and Official Devices are constructing one or a
plurality of RSID which is
a Random Symbolic Identifier, as well as: zero, one or a plurality of
Sequential Symbolic Identifier,
Unique Identifier, Universal Identifier, Group Pattern Random Symbolic
Identifier, Group Pattern
Sequential Symbolic Identifier used in any type of Document, Container,
Objects, Events, or data
items or processing or events or communications or security of this such that
the steps in creating
each RSID and each group of RSIDs are done in a logical consistent manner is
comprised of:
(A) defining the maximum number of Random Symbolic Identifiers needed to
ensure that
each RSID is unique and extremely difficult to guess, infer and predict; First
determining the
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minimum number of RSIDs required by considering data of: the number of
Potential Voters
according to Research steps, the number of correlated RSIDs per each type of
Objects and Events of
this invention; whereby Officials determine, perform manual calculations, and
use zero, one or a
plurality of computers running software programs to apply mathematical
concepts in estimating and
calculating, for each RSID Object and Event group type:Voter Ballots, Voter
Registration forms,
Proxy Registration, Voting Session Officials Registrations, Voting Sessions
Devices Identifiers,
Official and Voter Ballot Containers, Official and Voter Registration
Containers, Official and
Voting Receipt Identifiers, Official and Voter Registration Receipt
Identifiers, Official and Voter
Transaction Identifiers, Internal Computer System Identifiers, External Audit
Identifiers, Secure
Communications Identifiers or private-public Encryption-Decryption Keys to
estimate:
(i) total number of unique RSIDs needed per group;
(ii) the largest number of RSIDs needed for each group;
(iii) the total number of RSIDs needed overall;
Whereby a plurality of Officials utilize zero, one or a plurality of Voter
lists, perform
manual calculations, employing zero, one or a plurality of computers running
software programs to
apply mathematical concepts and algorithms to estimate, calculate and generate
an estimated
number of required RSIDs that are constructed to differentiate and
accommodate, for each Voter
and for all anticipated Voters, all types of each required RSID secured items:
Documents - Ballots,
Voter Registration forms, Data Containers, Voter-Proxy Language Registration
forms, Security
Elements, Security Items and Security labels, Validation Items, Elements and
labels, Authentication
Elements, Items and labels, Lists of: Eligible Voters, Potential Voters,
Ineligible and Disqualified
Voters, Eligible Proxy-Voters, Ineligible and Disqualified Proxy Voters,
secure data items,
securely identified transactions and correlated transaction and audit Receipts
, secured Receipts,
secure validations-authentications of any types of Documents, secure tagging
identification of
Official Vote Processing Devices, secure data communications, estimated number
of Containers,
estimated number of Voter Registrations, expected number of Ballot
replacements, estimated
number of Registration transactions, voting transactions, estimated number of
Receipts generated,
anticipated number of enquiries, verifications, authentications, publications,
communications
Events, communications data security info, secure Document and Container
scanning activities,
secure data Objects, Containers, Events & Data Processing: messages, audits
and reports,
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Communications: messages, audits and reports, Error & Complaint: Detections,
Investigations,
Corrections & Reports;
(B) the steps and methods of creating and organizing a plurality of RSIDs
whereby:
(i) The RSID and RSID group type symbols must be pre-determined, and the
number of
symbols to use for the RSID of this invention must be pre-calculated, based on
the number of
Voters anticipated, level of security desired for making the RSID extremely
difficult to guess,
balanced with the data storage needs, scanning error rate, computer processing
error rate and extra
communication required for having a large number of symbols comprising each
RSID; also taking
into consideration total number of Ballots issued, expected replacements,
anticipated number of
enquiries, verifications, authentications, validations, certifications,
transactions, secure
communications;
(ii) Officials select or create at least one reference group of symbolic
characters (which
may include numeric symbols and any other symbols or characters graphics or
icons from any
known human Languages or codes ) and specify correlated numeric values to each
symbol
removing redundant and easily confused symbols from each reference group;
(iii) Officials calculating minimum number of symbols needed to generate a
sufficient
number of unique permutations of RSIDs so as to be able to create a plurality
of unique
combinations of symbol permutations from said reference group for at least
equalling and
preferably greatly exceeding the required number of RSIDs for each group; and
the further steps of
reviewing each of the aforesaid symbol permutation substring patterns, then
removing and
inhibiting the creation of any repetitious or undesirable permutations;
(iv) for the above calculations of (iii), each of a plurality of RSIDs are
organized by unique
group type and sub-group type, each according to usage, and each RSID sub-
group type is
comprised of identical quantity number of reference symbols of the RSID :
Group Containers ID is
comprised of: Data Containers, Document Containers, Security Containers,
Events Containers,
Object Containers, Communications Containers; furthermore, Containers are
prefixed and
segregated by user: Official, Agent, Voter, Candidate, Government, ThirdParty;
(v) each said Documents Containers are used in any aforesaid POEM format for
delivering
and receiving Documents particular to the sender or receiver; and further
repeated for each group
type and sub-group thereof;
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(vi) for each said RSID, and for the correlated numeric quantity of reference
symbols for any
group or sub-group combination of reference symbols that are used to identify
each group and each
sub-group are usually different in numeric quantity, or, if numerically
identical in quantity, then
identical groups shall differ in their arrangement of numbers and characters
so as to be unique and
prevent errors or accidental misuse; ,
(vii) and for zero, one or a plurality of permutations of said combined
reference symbol
groups into usage groups and sub-groups thereof, each usage group comprises of
at least one usage
sub-group, and each usage sub-group is comprised of at least one unique
grouping and arrangement
having at least one unique symbol, or a plurality of unique symbols from the
reference symbols
group, arranged and uniquely combined so each usage group and each usage sub-
group are uniquely
identifiable among all usage groups and all usage sub-groups; further whereby
each usage group is
comprised of a combination of reference symbols permutation containing at
least one reference
symbol group, each symbol group having at least one unique symbol, or a
plurality of unique
symbols; each solo reference symbol group and each resultant combined usage
symbol groups have
a plurality of permutations of symbols within each said reference group, and
thus within each usage
group, usage sub-group and identifiers derived thereof;
(viii) and further whereby for each usage sub-group, at least one or a
plurality of
components groups of reference symbols are uniquely arranged and combined to
create at least one
unique combination of reference symbols so as to form a unique identifier
which represents to the
Voters and Officials, the visual and said POEM format as a unique arrangement
of symbols used for
a unique Random Symbolic Identifier also known as an RSID; For each said usage
group or
combined usage sub-groups, each said permutation of group symbols is
correlated to one unique
binary value, one unique hexadecimal value, one unique base ten numeric value;
For each said
Random Symbolic Identifier or RSID which is derived from or correlated to any
group, sub-group
or sub-group components, said Random Symbolic Identifier or RSID is correlated
to one unique
binary value, one unique hexadecimal value, one unique base ten numeric value;
(v) the reiterative steps of reviewing creation of merged reference symbol
groups of step (iv)
to (viii) then removing any repetitious, confusing or undesirable symbols or
patterns from merged
groups;
(ix) and further iterative steps of adding zero, one or a plurality of symbols
and symbol
permutations so as to increase the number of acceptable said RSIDs patterns
and acceptable RSID
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internal patterns to achieve the required total number of symbol permutations
that are needed to
assign to each said RSID and to each RSID within each RSID usage group type
and for any
additional spare RSIDs for each usage group or sub-group, or sub-group
components;
(vii) at least one Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a
plurality of
computers running software programs that assign one unique numeric binary
value to each symbol
or use an existing symbol code set that already has symbols and correlated
numeric values ;
(C) for each RSID group type, and for each RSIDs belonging to each group, at
least one
Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of computers
running software
programs that:
(i) randomly selecting symbols from the set of acceptable symbols until
reaching the desired
symbol number count required to achieve the maximum range of numeric values
required for
uniquely distinguishing each of the RSIDs for the usage group or usage sub-
group;
(ii) concatenating each symbol of each RSID to produce a unique symbol string -
which
may then be split into sub-groups of symbols for easier human usage and or
processing;
(iii) rejecting undesirable RSIDs by limiting the number of times a single
symbol, or
group of symbols, is repeated within each RSID so as to avoid confusion,
eliminate undesirable
patterns, and to optimize human and Official computer software algorithms
calculations to obtain
significant perceptions of recognizable uniqueness; and further whereby each
RSID is made to be
extreme difficulty to estimate, calculate or guess, and the uniqueness of each
RSID enables it to be
differentiable among all other RSIDs and all other types Identifiers of this
invention;
(D) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs that:
(i) assign one unique binary value to each acceptable RSID by consistently
concatenating the
correlated binary value assigned to each RSID symbol assigned in (b)(vii),
then interpreting the
combined assembled binary string as a single binary number (which may then be
split into sub-
groups of numbers for easier human usage );
(ii) enforce the principle of substantial numeric spacing so that each RSID
binary value
is unequivocally unique and predominately numerically distant in value from
all other RSIDs within
a group and among all RSIDs;
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(E) Officialsor Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs that: apply the further steps and methods of correlating
zero, one or a plurality
of RSIDs symbol group or sub-group patterns or directly to any symbols of :
(1) any types of alpha-numeric symbols or any other Language graphic or
character
symbols , as well as to images, icons, scientific or math symbols in any said
POEM format ;
(2) zero, one or a plurality of barcode graphic image or any other graphical
symbolic
representations correlated to a group of symbols referred to in preceding step
(1);
(3) calculated or derived barcode values that are correlated to a specific
barcode graphic;
(F) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs that: when a pre-determined maximum size of symbol groups is
defined by
determining a maximum number of symbols then the unused binary can be
compressed further to
reduce data storage needs or more importantly, to provide another layer of
security by reassigning
the unused binary values for each unused symbol to provide Data Security-
Integrity data bits for:
signal marking, bit transition encoding, data parity, and zero, one or a
plurality of other bits for data
security encoding, error detection, error identification, error specification,
error messaging, error
localization, error correction and error data recovery, and error detection
rejection;
(G) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs for: assigning zero, one or a plurality of : Data Type or
Data Mode data bits
symbols to zero, one or a plurality of RSID data signals or any other data of
this invention so as to
embed the signal type within the data transmitted for data handling
optimization and security
implicitly by characterizing the quality of the data received, and the further
step of assigning zero,
one or a plurality of non-RSID Data Mode symbols to each unused compressed
binary number after
First determining the maximum number of data bits needed to represent a
particular type of binary
signal data type:-Local-Data, Remote-Data, Internal-Data, Internet-Data, Fax
or Facsimile-Data,
EMail-Data, Telephone-Data, InteractiveTV-Data ), probable source and data
signal path, and data
signal mode: Official Device Telemetry, Voter Device Telemetry, Internal
Communication,
External Communication, Official Security, Voter Security, External Security,
Voter Data Storage,
Official Data Storage, Voter Data Retrieval, Official Data Retrieval,
Validation, Authentication,
Printing, Voter Data Processing, Official Data Processing, Analyzing, Event
Processing, Object
Processing, Complaint Processing, Investigation Processing, Error Processing:
error detection, error
identification, error specification, error localization, error position
locating, error marking, error
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correction, error data recovery, false error detection rejection, Amending,
Tallying, Reporting,
Certifying, Publishing ;
(H)(i) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers
running software programs for: constructing resultant final data words of the
prior steps (F),(G)
may then be re-encoded and re-correlated to the same original symbol encoding
group : ASCII
symbols group, any language symbol group, any machine or human created symbol
group or, may
alternatively be cross-encoded to another multi-bit code pattern, thereby
further encrypting the
original data contents while subsequently and separately embedding error
detection, error
identification, error specification, error localization, error correction data
bits, security encoding bits
for capabilities which could also be used to improve secure data storage, data
transmissions and
receptions;
(H)(ii) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers
running software programs for creating and assigning: zero, one or a plurality
of specific said usage
group type and usage sub-groups and component RSIDs, whereby each RSID of a
usage group type
or usage sub-group may optionally have appended additional data symbols as
prefixes or suffixes,
or at specific positions internally as embedded data bits that are at specific
positions within the
RSID so as to used for security encryption-decryption, transmitting and
receiving data compression
and decompression, error detection, error identification, error specification,
error localization, error
correction and error data recovery, error detection rejection, and to provide
further information as
to the RSID source device identification, source device location, source
author identification, source
author authorization, creation date-time, voting session, voting region,
polling station, Ballot type,
Registration type Document type, or other relevant information that is then
appended as a
combination of extra prefixes, suffixes or embedded within the RSID to create
a new composite
RSID, while also retaining the integrity of the original core RSID, whereby
the composite RSID
extreme difficulty to estimate, calculate or guess, and the uniqueness of the
composite RSID as it
remains readily differentiable among all other types Identifiers of this
invention; and the further
steps of disassembling and extracting the original core RSID from the
composite RSID;
(I) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs for:
(i) creating and assigning zero, one or a plurality of RSID symbols to belong
to a group type
RSIDs of identical usage purpose,
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(ii) and further whereby each RSID of each aforesaid usage group type may have
additional
data symbols, or data bits or symbols and data bits that are optionally
appended as extra prefixes,
suffixes and optionally embedded within the RSID so as to used for grouping
RSIDs by identical
usage purpose for each correlated said usage group type;-
(iii) and to provide embedded usage error check; RSIDs are grouped by usage
group type
and further by sub-group usage type and each RSID and each usage group type
RSID and each
usage sub-group RSID usage sub-group component RSID is composed of identical
or similar
number of reference symbols for each of the respective -usage group types,
usage sub-groups and
RSID components;
(J) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs for: calculating and generating an estimated extra number of
RSIDs for each
RSID group type that are marked inactive/extra and stored separately for rapid
assignment as need
arises;
(K) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs for: creating, populating, and organizing top level of Modal
group types: People,
Objects, Actions, Events, Security, Communications and each has sub-groups or
attributes: Type,
Identity, Location, Connectivity, Signals, Data, Devices, Actions, Events,
Objects, Processes,
Communications, Error Handling, Imaging, Reading, Data Storage, Data
Retrieval, Analysis,
Reporting, Validating, Authenticating, Certifying, Publishing, each having
correlated sub-group
information attributes correlated to Voters data, Officials data, Documents
data, devices data;
(L) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs for: the further steps and methods of creating a plurality
of data organization
groups for each mode and method of voting to provide collecting, sorting,
separating and organizing
a plurality of data items, any types of RSIDs, Documents, forms, Containers,
Objects, Events,
groups, communications, processes, or any item of this invention; and further
steps and methods of
creating any number data organization structures of conceptual group types as
group formation
categorizations, and further of creating zero, one or a plurality of groups of
said group types so as to
be usable instances of group types to enable further data organization and
logical grouping for
Voting Methods, Data Storages, RSIDs, Voters, Officials, Official Voting
Devices and related
equipment, Voting Regions and Locations, Security data partitioning,
Communications, data
processing, error processing: error detection, error identification, error
reporting, error specification,
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error localization, error position locating, error marking, error correction,
error data recovery, false
error detection rejection, auditing, reporting, Voting System optimization;
(M) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers
running software programs for: creating and assigning zero, one or a plurality
of groups to be
subordinate to zero, one or a plurality of other groups; and the further steps
of correlating groups to
groups, correlating groups to attributes, correlating data and state
information to attributes and to
parent groups;
(N) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers
running software programs for: (1) creating and assigning at least one
reference symbol group to
each group of Objects (Documents, Devices) and their correlated Objects Type
of Document types:
Ballots, Ballot Containers, Voter Registrations, Registration Containers,
Officials Registrations,
Official Registration Containers, Ballot Receipts, Registration Receipts,
voting transaction Receipts,
Registration transaction Receipts, Ballot delivery confirmation Receipts,
Registration delivery
confirmation Receipts, Ballot and Registration processing and error reports,
Ballot and Registration
tally reports, Registration audit reports, voting audit reports; and also of
Devices usage types:
printing, voting, verifying, authenticating, communicating, securing,
auditing, encoding, decoding,
encrypting, decrypting, error detecting, error correcting, translating,
computing and publishing;
(2), creating and assigning for each Object group type, a unique Object group
Identifier having acronym of: ObjectGroupID to the overall group and further a
unique Identifier
having acronym of: ObjectID for each Object member of the Object group,
further whereby the
Event group Identifier may also be concatenated to each Object member for
rapid association to the
parent Object group;
(3) assigning at least one reference symbol group to zero, one or a plurality
of Event
groups of this invention: Events: Registrations, voting, authentication,
transactions, security,
auditing, communications, image capture and processing, error processing
comprised of: error
detection, error identification, error reporting, error specification, error
localization, error position
locating, error marking, error correction, error data recovery, false error
detection rejection , data
processing, data retrieval, data storage, validating, authenticating ,
certifying, reporting and then
generating and correlating Identifiers for each Event group, and for each
Event within each Event
group;
(4) (i) assigning one unique binary value to uniquely identify each group of
Objects;
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(ii) assign one unique binary value to uniquely identify each group of Events;
(iii) assigning particular groups of reference symbols, barcodes and
correlated barcode
values to Objects groups, and Event groups of this invention so as to
distinguish Objects group
types from Event group types and to distinguish Event related identifiers,
barcodes and barcode
values from among all other Identifiers, barcodes and barcodes values of this
invention;
(iv) assigning zero, one or a plurality of attributes and attribute values to
each Object
group and to each Event group and to a plurality of other groups;
(5) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs for: (i) assigning one unique binary value to uniquely
identify each Object and
Event from within each group of Objects, and within each group of Events;
(ii) forming and assigning particular groups of reference symbols, barcodes
and the
correlated barcode values to Objects groups and Event groups of this invention
so as to distinguish
Objects among all other Objects and also to distinguish each Event from among
all other Events;
(iii) facilitating organization and proper use, of concatenating the parent
Object group
Identifier to each Object within an Object group, and concatenating the parent
Event group
Identifier to each Event within an Event group;
(6) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or
a plurality of computers running software programs for: creating zero, one or
a plurality of data
organization structures of conceptual group types as group formation
categorizations, and further of
creating zero, one or a plurality of groups of said group types so as to be
usable instances of group
types to enable further data organization and logical grouping for Voting
Methods, Data Storages,
RSIDs, Voters, Officials, Official Voting Devices and related equipment,
Voting Regions and
Locations, Security data partitioning, Communications, Data Processing and
voting system
optimization;
(O)Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs for: (1) forming and assigning Modal Groups: as a top-level
of the hierarchy of
groups which encompass every type of Voting Session activity: Voting,
Registration, Imaging,
Reporting, Security, Communications, Data Processing, Error Processing,
Authorization, Printing,
Delivering, Auditing, Authenticating, Confirming, Analyzing, Tallying ,
Reporting, History
Logging, System and Device Identification, Connectivity, Communication,
Authentication,
Allocation, Workload Balancing, Optimization, Error Handling, Systems and
People Event
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Handling which may contain or have as attributes Objects and Events groups,
and the attributes of
those Objects and Events groups and for zero, one or a plurality of sub-groups
of Objects and and
for zero, one or a plurality of sub-groups of Events;
(2) creating and assigning a plurality of Modal groups for each method of
voting and
further creating and correlating a plurality of data structures to each said
Modal group
categorization comprising of: Voter, Proxy, Official, Computer System,
Network, Security,
Communications, Telephony, Television, Data Processing, Error Processing,
Internal, External;and
for each Modal group categorization, creating zero, one or a plurality of
correlated Modal sub-
groups: process, services, Events, Objects, Usage, Documents, Containers,
Validation,
Authentication, Certification, Complaints, Investigation, Corrections, data,
signals, errors,
corrections, amendments, certification, reporting which each further have a
correlated functional
Modal Status Priority attribute: urgent, high, normal, error, pending,
completed, suspended,
terminated, rescinded, voided, archived and related Modal Status Value
attribute: true, false, yes,
no, maybe, valid, invalid, unknown, secure, insecure, verified, unverified,
authorized, unauthorized,
confirmed, unconfirmed, submitted, committed, rollback, undone, canceled,
rescinded, voided,
pending, transmitted, received;
(2) for each Modal group type the steps of creating zero, one or a plurality
of RSIDs for each
Modal group type and for each subordinate Modal sub-group and s, activities
thereof by defining
the upper limit number of Random Symbolic Identifiers needed to ensure that
each Modal related
RSID is unique and extremely difficult to guess by calculating, estimating and
considering:
(i) the number of Potential Voters and estimated number of Eligible Voters,
(ii) potential number of RSIDs for each Modal group of Objects, Events,
Systems,
Services, Errors, Complaints, Investigation, & Amendments;
(iii) assigning at least one reference symbol group to each top-level parent
Modal
group and each modal sub-group, s so as to provide auditing records;
(3) calculating the total number of Identifiers needed overall and the minimum
number of
symbols needed to generate a sufficiently number of unique permutations of
symbols so as to be
able to create one unique symbol permutation for the required number of
Identifiers per Modal
group; rejecting undesirable Modal-IDs by limit the number of times a single
symbol, or group of
symbols, is repeated within each Modal-ID so as to avoid confusion, eliminate
undesirable patterns,
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and to optimize human and Official computer software algorithms calculations
to obtain significant
perceptions of uniqueness;
(4) assigning one unique numeric binary value to each symbol or use an
existing symbol
code set that has symbols and correlated numeric value for each symbol;
(5) s constructing each unique RSID or a plurality of unique RSIDs by
consistently
concatenating the desired quantity of RSID symbols to form a unique RSID
symbol string, further
repeating for creating a plurality of RSIDs;
(6) assigning a unique binary value to each acceptable unique RSID Identifier
string by
consistently correlating the binary value assigned to each RSID symbol, then
for the completely
assembled sequence of RSID symbols having a correlated sequence of binary
values, interpreting
said sequence of RSID symbols binary values as a single combined unique binary
number;
correlating said combined unique binary number to the combined RSID symbol
string and value;
(7) enforcing the principle of substantial numeric spacing so that each
Identifier has a
combined unique binary value that is unequivocally unique and predominately
numerically distant
in value from all other Identifiers among all Identifiers of the invention;
(8) correlating zero, one or a plurality of Modal Identifier sub-patterns
directly to zero,
one or a plurality of symbols of :
(i) any types of alpha-numeric symbols or graphical Language symbols, images
or icons ;
(ii) any types of barcode graphics and barcode values;
(P) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers
running software programs for: (i) sorting and organizing a plurality of RSID
symbols so as to
belong to a Group Type of identical usage purpose whereby each RSID group type
is composed of
identical or similar number of reference symbols of the RSID group types,
(ii) grouping RSIDs of each correlated group type, consistently appending
extra
prefixes, suffixes or embedding at specific positions within the RSID zero,
one or a plurality of
additional data symbols or binary data bits or data symbols and binary data
bits so as to be an extra
part of each group type RSID;
(iii) appending and embedding additional data symbols and binary data bits at
specific
positions within the RSID to enable error detecting, error correcting,
security encrypting,
decrypting, encoding-decoding, data compressing-decompressing, RSID source
identification;
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(iv) creating aforesaid composite RSID by embedding or appending additional
data
symbols and extra data bits to the original core RSID, in such a manner so as
to retain the integrity
of the original core RSID and the uniqueness of the composite RSID so that it
remains readily
differentiable among all other Identifiers of this invention and remains
extremely difficult, near
impossible to estimate, calculate or guess;
(Q) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers
running software programs for each RSID group type, calculating, generating
and assembling and
estimated extra number of core RSIDs and composite RSIDs that are marked
inactive/extra and
stored separately for rapid assignment and deployment by Officials as the need
arises;
(R) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs for creating top level Voter group type, Proxy group type,
and Official group
type, each said group type has correlated sub-groups or attributes of:
Identity, Location, Devices,
Connection, Documents, Security, Events, Issues, Errors, Communications,
Processing ( Printing,
Assigning, Delivering, Receiving, Validating, Imaging, Reading, Storing,
Retrieving, Analyzing,
Reporting, Publishing, Certifying; and further containing information
correlated to specific Voter,
Proxy and Officials data issuing, data delivery data receiving, data
processing, people actions,
System Events, communications, people errors, system errors, error processing
comprising of:error
detection, error identification, error reporting, error specification, error
localization, error position
locating, error marking, error correction, error data recovery, false error
detection rejection , data
storage, data retrieval, connected devices, off-line devices, in-transit
devices, on-order devices, in-
repair devices;
s ) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs for creating a plurality of Data Organization groups for
each mode and method
of voting to provide collecting, sorting, separating and organizing a
plurality of data items, RSIDs,
groups, sub-groups, Documents, Ballots, Registration forms, Language selection
forms, Containers,
Objects, Events, groups, communications, processes, or any item of this
invention; and further steps
and methods of creating any number data organization structures of conceptual
group types as group
formation categorizations, and further of creating zero, one or a plurality of
groups of said group
types so as to be usable instances of group types to enable further data
organization and logical
grouping for Voting Methods, Data Storages, RSIDs, Voters, Officials, Official
Voting Devices and
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related equipment, Voting Regions and Locations, Security data partitioning,
Communications, data
processing, error processing, auditing, reporting and voting system
optimization;
(T) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs for creating and assigning zero, one or a plurality of Data
Organization groups to
be correlated to zero, one or a plurality of other groups;
(i) and the further steps of correlating Data Organization groups to other
group types, and
further correlating Data Organization groups to data attributes, and further
correlating Data Groups
to Object state information;
(ii) Officials or Official Agents using computers running software programs:
(a) creating Data Organization groups thereby organizing a plurality of RSIDs
for a plurality
of each Identifier of: Officials, Voters, Proxy Voters, Documents, containers,
registration
Documents identifiers, language session identifiers, ballot identifiers,
voting session identifiers,
voting type identifiers, location identifiers, region identifiers, zone
identifiers polling station
identifiers, postal-zipcode identifiers, official devices identifiers, data-
time-stamp identifiers, voter
candidate selection signatures, voter proposal selection signatures, Document
submission identifier,
Document validation identifier, RSID hashing algorithm calculated values, RSID
Cluster Identifiers,
data transmissions, data encryption keys, data decryption keys, Security
Elements, Voters Personal
Security Items, Officials Security Elements, Session Identifiers, Document
Receipt Identifiers,
Transaction Receipt Identifiers, Transmission Identifiers, Error Message
Identifiers, Date-Time-
Stamp identifiers, Report Identifiers, Internet webpage identifiers, PassCode
identifiers ;
(b) for each RSID of the currently active Voting Session: actively sorting and
organizing
each RSID into usage groups and sub-usage types then for each usage group and
for each sub-usage
type: (i) calculating hashing values for each RSID and for a plurality of
RSIDs using computer
software programs applying hashing algorithms;
(ii) grouping said RSID calculated hashing values having similar hashing
values into at least
one RSID Cluster Groups that is assigned a unique Cluster Group Identifier,
then further refining by
grouping RSIDs having only identical hashing values into at least one RSID
Cluster sub-Group
(Cluster Node group);
(iii) for a plurality of Cluster Groups and Cluster sub-groups (Cluster
Nodes), logically
connecting and inter-connecting a plurality of Cluster Groups and Cluster sub-
groups with Cluster
Vines, also assigning a unique Identifier to each Cluster Vine, and further
assigning a Cluster Root
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Node to each Cluster Vine, then further connecting and interconnecting Cluster
Vines using at least
one Primary Vine and zero, one or a plurality of Secondary Vines then further
assigning a Primary
Vine Root Node to each Primary Vine, and a Secondary Vine Root Node to each
Secondary Vine
whereby said Primary and Secondary Vines Root Nodes contains data and
connection information
for each Cluster Vines and Cluster Root Nodes to which they are connected; and
further having a
plurality of distinct Cluster Vines, Cluster Root Nodes, Primary Vines and
Secondary Vines,
Primary Vine Root Nodes, Secondary Vine Root Nodes whereby each said Node,
Cluster and Vine
are clearly distinct, uniquely identified;
(iv) and further whereby each said Cluster Group, Cluster sub-group, Cluster
Node, Cluster
Vines, Primary Vines, Primary Vines Root Nodes, Secondary Vines and Secondary
Vines Root
Nodes are uniquely identified and accessible by at least one uniquely
identifiable connection path
and further connected to each other by zero, one or a plurality of uniquely
identifiable connection
paths;
(v) further connecting aforesaid Clusters, Groups, sub-groups, Vines and Nodes
to a
plurality of Officials and Official Devices using said connection paths to a
plurality of Clusters,
Cluster sub-groups, Cluster Nodes, Cluster sub-group Nodes, Cluster Vines,
Primary Vines,
Secondary Vines, Cluster Vine Root Nodes, Primary Vine Root Nodes, Secondary
Vine Root Nodes
to zero, one or a plurality of Official Devices, and to zero, one or a
plurality of internal and external:
verification and validation devices, error detecting, error reporting, error
correcting devices,
communications devices, data cryptography devices, communications cryptography
devices, data or
communication compression or decompression devices, data or communication
encoding or
decoding devices, and further to zero, one or a plurality of: Voter Devices,
Government devices,
Candidate devices, and Political Party devices, third-party devices, news
media devices, general
public devices;
(vi) applying beam-search and nearness factoring algorithms using computers
running
software programs so as calculate, record and store correlated values for
optimal searching and data
access paths for each RSID Cluster Group, RSID Cluster Node Group, RSID Data
Node as well as
for the inter-connecting RSID Cluster Vines linking said Cluster Groups and
Nodes, then storing
said calculations and values in each logically correlated Cluster Vine Root
Node;
(vii) for a plurality of RSIDs, recording each RSID, primary usage type,
Secondary usage
type, correlated hashing value, correlated similar Cluster Group Identifier
and identical RSID
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Cluster sub-Group (Cluster Nodes group) Identifier, at least one Cluster Vines
Identifiers, along
with the creation date-time-stamp, author-identifier, transaction identifier,
official identifier, official
devices identifiers, source-location identifier, official-record-identifier,
into at least one, and for a
plurality of computer accessible, logically organized, sequentially and
randomly searchable Official
computer data file records, Official computer database records, Official
computer linked lists,
Official computer circular linked lists, Official computer N-tree data
structures, Official computer
sparse matrices, in at least one Official computer data storage device and at
least one immutable
Official computer data storage media, and in each logically correlated Vine
Root Node;
(viii) defining Requestors for each of one or a plurality of: Officials,
Official Agents,
Official Voting System Devices, Voters, Proxy Voters, Potential Voters, News
Media, Registered
Political Person or Registered Political Group, Registered Interested Party
attempting to locate one
RSID or a plurality of RSIDs by employing data processing devices connecting
to Officials POEM
format data sources to validate or authenticate one RSID or a plurality of
RSIDs by applying
Officials software that employs search methods of prior steps (i), (ii), (v)
and (vi) unto Officials data
storage devices and correlated RSID Cluster Groups, RSID Cluster Nodes, and
RSID Cluster Vines
and data structures of prior steps (iii),(iv) and (vii) and correlated
Personal Identification data and
correlated data of the prior step (iv) prior; recording search results,
signalling to each Requestors
whether the RSID was located, then granting further processing for each found
valid RSID or
alternatively for each unfound RSID permitting error correction, thereafter
for each Requestor
whose search fails then limiting or denying any further processing for a time
period;
(U) Officials or Official Agents employing zero, one or a plurality of
computers running
software programs for creating a plurality of Event group types and a
plurality of Object group
types then:
(1) assigning at least one reference symbol group to each group of Objects
(Documents,
Devices) and their correlated Objects Type of Document types: Ballots, Ballot
Containers, Voter
Registrations, Registration Containers, Officials Registrations, Official
Registration Containers,
Ballot Receipts, Registration Receipts, voting transaction Receipts,
Registration transaction
Receipts, Ballot delivery confirmation Receipts, Registration delivery
confirmation Receipts, Ballot
and Registration processing and error reports, Ballot and Registration tally
reports, Registration
audit reports, voting audit reports; and also of Devices usage and Events
types: designing,
constructing, assembling, printing, voting, verifying, authenticating,
communicating, securing,
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auditing, encoding, decoding, encrypting, reviewing, analyzing, diagnosing,
resolving, repairing,
enabling, disabling, activating, deactivating, decrypting, error detecting,
error correcting,
translating, computing, auditing, certifying, publishing;
(2) assigning for each Object group type, a unique Object group Identifier to
the overall
group and further a unique Identifier for each Object member of the Object
group, further whereby
the Event group Identifier may also be concatenated to each Object member for
rapid association to
the parent Object group;
(3) assigning at least one reference symbol group to zero, one or a plurality
of Event groups
of this invention: Events: Registrations, voting, authentication,
transactions, security, auditing,
communications, image capture and processing, error processing, data
processing-retrieval-storage;
generating correlated Identifiers for each Event group, and for each Event
assigned to each type of
Event group;
(4) (i) assigning one unique binary value to uniquely identify each group of
Objects;
(ii) assigning one unique binary value to uniquely identify each group of
Events;
(iii) assigning particular groups of reference symbols, barcodes and
correlated barcode
values to Objects groups and Event groups of this invention so as to
distinguish Objects group types
from Event group types and distinguish from among all other Identifiers of the
invention;
(iv) assigning zero, one or a plurality of attributes and attribute values to
each Object group
and to each Event group and to zero, one or a plurality of other groups;
(5) (i) assigning one unique binary value to uniquely identify each Object and
each Event
from within each group of Objects , each group of Events ;
(ii) assigning particular groups of reference symbols, barcodes and the
correlated
barcode values to Objects groups and Event groups of this invention so as to
distinguish Objects
groups among all other Objects and also to distinguish each Event group from
among all Events;
(iii) and the further step to facilitate organization by correctly and
consistently
concatenating the parent Object group Identifier to each Object within an
Object group,
concatenating the parent Event group Identifier to each Event within an Event
group;
(6) creating any number data organization structures of Conceptual group types
as
group formation categorizations, and further of creating zero, one or a
plurality of groups of said
group types so as to be usable instances of group types to enable further data
organization and
logical grouping for Voting Methods, Data Storages, RSIDs, Voters, Officials,
Official,
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Communications, Data Processing, Availability and Optimization of: Official
Devices, Voting
Devices and related peripheral equipment, Voting Regions and Locations,
Security Data
Partitioning System;
(7) creating a plurality of Modal Groups which contain Objects and Events
groups, and
whereby Modal Groups encompass each type of a plurality og said Voting Session
activities 3
(a) Officials creating zero, one or a plurality of Modal groups and Modal
Group Categories
for each method of voting and further creating and correlating zero, one or a
plurality of data
structures to each said Modal group categorization and for each Modal group
categorization zero,
one or a plurality of correlated sub-groups which each further have zero, one
or a plurality of
correlated functional mode status priority attributes and zero, one or a
plurality of correlated Modal
status attribute values;
(b) creating zero, one or a plurality of any type of RSIDs for each said Modal
group type
and Modal Group Category, and further for each group subordinate Object,
processes, services,
Events, activities thereof; defining the upper limit number of said Random
Symbolic Identifiers
needed to ensure that any one RSID is unique and extremely difficult to guess,
by considering:
(i) the number of Potential Voters and estimated number of Eligible Voters;
(ii) potential number of RSIDs for each Modal group of Objects, Events,
Systems, Services;
(iii) providing top-level parent Modal Functional group or category: people
devices, System
services, security, data processing, Documents, Containers, publishing,
communications, imaging,
data storage data retrieval groups - and further providing auditing records
for each action, Event,
signal, process, person, Object, security by assigning subordinate level
symbol groups: person type,
person-ID, Objects, Object-ID, Object description, people actions, people
action-ID, people action
description, System Events, System Event-ID, System Event description, issue-
ID, issue-type,
issue-description, errors, error-ID, error description, device-Identifier,
device description,
availability, functionality, location, allocation, history log, reports, date-
time, source-ID,
authorization-ID, authorization history log as attributes of, or sub-levels to
said parent Modal
Functional groups;
(iv) further correlating each of one or a plurality of said Object-ID, Event-
ID, error-ID to
zero, one or a plurality of Officials, Official Agents, Official Vote
Processing Devices;
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(v) further correlating for each of one or a plurality of said Object-ID,
Event-ID, error-ID to
zero, one or a plurality of Voters, Proxy-Voters, Potential Voters,
Government, Candidate, Group or
Party, NewsMedia, Auditor, Public or ThirdParty;
(W) creating and assembling an RSID and a plurality of RSIDs whereby for each
RSID,
calculating the total number of RSID Identifiers needed overall for the voting
session and for each
group type usage-purpose, and further calculating the minimum number of
symbols needed to
generate a sufficiently number of unique permutations of symbols so as to be
able to create one
unique symbol permutation for the required number of Identifiers per Modal
group; rejecting
undesirable Modal-IDs by limit the number of times a single symbol, or group
of symbols, is
repeated within each Modal-ID so as to avoid confusion, eliminate undesirable
patterns, and to
optimize human and Official computer software algorithms calculations to
obtain significant
perceptions of uniqueness;
(1) assigning one unique numeric binary value to each symbol or use an
existing symbol
code set that has symbols and correlated numeric value for each symbol;
(2) Officials concatenate each symbol to produce a unique symbol string;
(3) assigning a unique binary value to each acceptable Identifier, by
consistently
concatenating the correlated binary value assigned to each Identifier symbol,
interpreting the
assembled binary string as a single binary number;
(4) enforcing the principle of substantial numeric spacing so that each
Identifier has a
binary value that is unequivocally unique and predominately numerically
distant in value from all
other Modal-IDs within any group and among all Modal-IDs;
(5) correlating zero, one or a plurality of Modal Identifier sub-patterns
directly to any
symbols of:
(i) any types of alpha-numeric symbols or graphical Language symbols, images
or icons;
(ii) any types of barcode graphics and barcode values;
(X) embodying a Voter Ballot as a portable, anonymous Voter Ballot optical-
electronic data
card having all required Official Ballot information, Ballot voting choices,
voting RSID Identifiers
and PassCodes encoded, encrypted and stored in visible character symbols,
invisible character
symbols, magnetic data field stripes, holograms, micro-devices; and
(Y) further having a Voter Registration data card containing specific
information pertaining
to a particular Voter or designated Proxy; further embodying an voting session
Official Registration
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and identification as a portable Official ID card having for each Official,
their public identification
data, private voting session Identifiers and Official PassCodes and Officials
private PassWords
encoded and stored in visible and invisible character symbols, electronically,
optical-electronically,
magnetic data field stripes, holograms, chemicals, special materials, micro-
devices;
(Z) utilizing any combinations of: at least one symmetric or at least one
asymmetric or any
other type : logarithmic, algebraic polynomials exponentials of encryption
public and private key
pairs, key certificates, encryption algorithms, decryption algorithms, digital
signature algorithms to
encrypt and decrypt a plurality of data within or related to : Voter Ballot
data sets, Voter Ballot
processing data sets, Voter Registration data sets, Ballot process data sets,
Ballot casting
Transactions and Transaction Receipts data sets, Events and Event Groups data
sets, ; Containers
and Return Containers data sets, Voter Complaints and Amendments data sets,
Official
Investigations and Amendments data sets, Official Validation, Authentication
and Reporting data
sets, Data Scanning, Storage, Optimization and Retrieval data sets, Error
Detection, Reporting and
Correction data sets, Communications, Networks and Devices data sets; whereby
Voters use their
provided Ballot Voting RSID and correlated Official PassCode along with
Officials public keys and
encryption algorithms to generate a private voting or Voter Registration
authentication voucher that
is unique to each Ballot RSID or Registration RSID and is printed on the
correlated Receipt, and
further with a private Voter created PassWord, and may be used to encrypt the
semi-public Voter
data page contents so as to be revealed only to the Voter who cast that Ballot
or submitted that
information or to an entrusted Official or other third party authorized by the
Voter;
(AA) further steps and methods of the Computerized Voting System of claim 1
whereby:
(1) Further to the aforesaid voting and delivery methods and for each of a
plurality of
Officials, Official Agents, Official Devices, Voters, Proxy Voters, Potential
Voters each:
(a) sending and receiving zero, one or a plurality of Voting Session Documents
and
Containers to zero, one or a plurality of Ballot Processing Agents also known
as Ballot Agents,
Official Agents or Agents are employed to independently send, receive and
process or monitor
Official processing of each of a plurality of Ballots and correlated Voter
Selections Voter Write-In
Choices, Voter Personal Security Items, Ballot Security Elements using Ballot
Agents Official
Voting Session Devices also known as Official Devices of claim 1 which Ballot
Agents control and
manage independently and separately from Officials; said Agent Voting Session
Devices and Ballot
related Voting data are independently managed and controlled by said Ballot
Processing Agents,
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thereby isolating and securely keeping secret the correlation between the
unique Ballot Voting
Identifier, Ballot PassCode and the unique Voter Identifier, Voter Password,
also keeping secret all
Voter and Proxy Ballot selections, Write-In choices and Voter Personal
Security Items, further
securely keeping secret all other information that may directly or indirectly
provide a significantly
probable link between the Ballot and the Voter or Proxy Voter;
(b) generating, recording and providing each of a plurality of Registered
Voters and a
plurality of Registered, designated Proxy Voters and a plurality of Officials
with at least one unique
private Voter Registration Identifier, at least one correlated unique Voter
Registration PassCode,
and at least one unique Voting Access Identifier and zero, one or a plurality
of unique Voting
Access PassCodes of which only the Voting Access Identifier and correlated
Voting Access
Passcodes are provided to Ballot Processing Agents which are not given access
to Voter or Proxy
or Officials Voting Registration Identifiers or Voting Registration PassCodes,
thereby isolating and
protecting sensitive private personal information from Official Ballot
Processing Agents;
(c) and further steps and methods whereby each said Voters and Proxy Voters
personal
information is also shielded from said Official Vote Processing Agents or
Ballot Agents whom only
receive the unique Voter Identifier, Voter PassCode; A plurality of Voting
Session Primary
Officials employ a plurality of Voting Session devices to capture and store
all Voter and Proxy
Voter personal registration data securely, independently and in a manner that
inaccessible to the
Official Ballot Processing Agents ( Ballot Agents or Official Agents ) so as
to protect the Voter and
Proxy Voter private, sensitive personal information and to prevent said
Official Ballot Processing
Agents from linking the Ballot RSID and selection and write-in choices to a
specific person; a
plurality of Voting Session Primary Officials research potential Voters,
accept applications for
Voter and Proxy Voter registrations, then primary Voting Session Officials
validate, authenticate,
certify and register valid, Eligible Voters and valid, Eligible Proxy Voters,
generating and
correlating to each eligible Voter and eligible Proxy Voter, unique extremely
hard to guess Voter
Random Symbolic Identifiers, Voter Random Symbolic Barcodes or QR code and
correlated
numeric value and graphical image, Voter PassCodes RSIDs, Voter Passcode
barcode or QR code
and correlated numeric value and graphical image, and zero, one or a plurality
of Security Elements,
Validation, and Authentication data, markings, signals and messages, and zero,
one or a plurality of
Voter Personal Security Items, that is all correlated to each respective Voter
or Proxy Voter
personal information, aggregated in at least one record or zero, one or a
plurality of linked records,
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and then securely and redundantly stored with at least one exact duplicate
record of all the aforesaid
Voter and Proxy Voter data that is stored in or on an immutable media along
with at least one
unique transaction identifier, data and time data, unique Official and
Official devices identifiers,
unique location identifier, and a unique Voter data signature derived from
applying a computer
running a hashing algorithm software program which is applied to compute a
unique hashing value
for each the personal data and Voter Personal Security Items as well as the
Voter or Proxy Identifier
and Voter Passcode for each Eligible Voter and each Eligible Proxy Voter who
successfully
registers to vote with Voting Session Primary Officials;
(3) (i) After each of a plurality of Voters and Proxy Voters has successfully
registered to
vote, at least one Primary Official or at least one Ballot Agent generates a
plurality of groups of
unique Ballot RSID, and zero, one or a plurality of unique Ballot PassCodes,
Ballot Voting RSIDs,
Ballot Voting PassCodes, and zero, one or a plurality of Security Elements,
Limits of Use data,
Validation data, Authentication data, which form a Voter Ballot Record Group
that is then given,
messaged, or revealed to each Voter and Proxy Voter for their use to vote with
or without any direct
or indirect or derivable correlation to the Voter or Proxy Voter; further
aforesaid Voter Ballot
Record Group is further combined with and correlated to the creation dates and
times of Ballot
RSID, Ballot Voting RSID and Ballot PassCodes, the creating Official devices
unique identifier, the
Voter or Proxy Voter location or electronic address and identifier, the Voting
Session devices
location or electronic address and unique identifier, that are correlated to
unique value from a
computer software hashing algorithm that computes a unique value for said
Voter Ballot Record
Group that is immutably stored and added to a database or other type of data
storage as the Official
Ballot Record Group;
(ii) this invention includes the further steps and methods of preserving
privacy and
anonymity of Voter and Proxy Voter for their ballot selections and write-in
choices by exchanging
once or a plurality of times, with one or a plurality of Voters and Proxy
Voters: one or a plurality
of items of a Voter Ballot Record Group comprised of: Ballots, Ballots RSIDs,
correlated Ballot
PassCodes, correlated Ballot Voting RSIDs, and correlated Ballot PassCodes,
Personal Passwords,
Security Elements, Limits of Use data, Validation data, Authentication data ,
without disclosing
exchanges of said Voter Ballot Record Group to Officials, Official Agents or
Vote Processing
Devices;
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(iii) Ballot Processing Agents and Primary Officials of the Voting Session
exchange and
share zero, one or a plurality of said Official Ballot Record Groups which are
Voter Ballot Record
Group combined with creation date, creation time, location Officials
identifier data, and
device identifier of the non-specific Voter or Proxy Voter that are recorded
on at least one and
often a plurality of listings of said Ballot RSIDs, correlated Ballot
PassCodes, Ballot Voting RSIDs,
Ballot Voting RSID Passcodes, each of which are managed by a plurality of
Primary Officials and
Primary Officials Voting Session devices, or Ballot Agents and Ballot Agents
Devices or any
combinations thereof so long as neither any Primary Officials nor any Ballot
Agents are able to
employ one or more Voting Session Devices of claim 1, and one or more data
access permissions
so as to independently correlate, derive, infer or compute the Official Ballot
Record Group data and
Voter Ballot selections and Write-In Choices to any specific Voter or Proxy
Voter; and further that
neither any Primary Officials nor any Ballot Agents are able to derive, infer,
decode reverse
engineer or compute the Voter and Proxy Voter Private Security Items so as to
enable any Officials
or Agents to view the Voter or Proxy Voter Ballot Selections and Write-In
Choices that are
associated with their private vault , yet all that Official Ballot Record
Group data is otherwise
visible for review and confirmation at the Official created Internet web-page
record of the cast
Ballot Receipt, each said web-page and for a plurality of said web-pages is
stored at the correlated
Uniform Resource Locator Internet address comprised of a unique, extremely
hard to guess random
symbolic identifier that is correlated to: the unique Transaction Identifier
generated for each
correlated, completed specific Ballot casting event, Complaint, Amendment,
Correction or
Investigation event for each of a plurality of Ballot casting events and for
each of a plurality of
Complaint, Amendment, Correction and Investigation events;
(4) (i) zero, one or a plurality of Primary Officials Official Agents
personally or
employing computers running software programs to research and provide each
Eligible Voter and
each Eligible Proxy Voter with at least one private, unique and extremely hard
to guess, calculate
and infer, static and immutable Voter Private Random Symbolic Identifier also
referred to as Voter
Private RSID and also at least one correlated, modifiable unique Voter Private
Passcode both of
which the Voter keeps private and confidential; a plurality of said Primary
Officials and Official
Agents recording , storing, and retrieving a plurality of said Voter Private
Random Symbolic
Identifiers, Voter Private PassCodes, Voter Public Random Symbolic
Identifiers, Voter Public
PassCodes along with a unique Voter Creation Transaction Identifier that is
correlated to both said
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Voter Public and Private Random Symbolic Identifiers; said plurality of
Registration Officials
validating, authenticating, certifying, error checking, error detecting, error
correcting, and false error
detecting of zero, one or a plurality of Voter Private and Voter Public Random
Symbolic Identifiers
and PassCodes;
(ii) a plurality of said Registration Officials and Registration Officials
Voting Session
Devices creating, assembling, populating, updating and amending a plurality of
Registered Voter
Public Lists containing a plurality of Voter Public Random Symbolic
Identifiers, and for each said
Voter Public RSID, the correlated dates and times of eligibility to vote, and
zero, one or a plurality
of correlated Voting Region Identifiers, Polling Station Identifiers, and any
other suitable
information; said Registration Officials verifying, validating,
authenticating, certifying and
optionally sharing said Registered Voter Public List with Third Party Auditors
and Electoral Board,
and Official Candidates but not with the news media or general public until
after the election ;
(iii) zero, one or a plurality of a plurality of Registered Voters and Proxy
Voters submits zero, one or a plurality of their Voting Access Identifiers and
zero, one or a
plurality of correlated Voting Access Identifier Passcodes to at least one
Ballot Processing
Agent and zero, one or a plurality of Ballot Agents independently managed and
controlled
Voting Session Devices, using any of this inventions methods of voting: In-
Person, Courier,
Postal Mail, facsimile transmission, Telephone, Electronic Mail, Internet,
Interactive
Television ; at least one Ballot Processing Agents comparing each Voting
Access Identifier
and zero, one or a plurality of correlated Voting Identifier Passcodes to the
Official provided
lists of Voting Access Identifiers using zero, one or a plurality of Voting
Session Devices;
zero, one or a plurality of Ballot Processor Agents and zero, one or a
plurality of Ballot
Agent managed Voting Session Devices to validate, authenticate, certify,
authorize and
enable, or otherwise: suspend and disable, disqualify and disable, reject and
disable a
plurality of Voters and Proxy Voters access to the Voting Systems of this
invention;
(iv) a plurality of Ballot Agents and Ballot Agent Devices verifying,
confirming and
validating said Voting Access Identifiers and zero, one or a plurality of
correlated Voting Access
Passcodes) are on the list of Official Voting Access Identifiers, thereafter
verifying, validating,
authenticating, to accept and enable said Voter for using any of the Voter
selected Voting methods;
at least one Ballot Agents or Agent Devices recording the said provided Voting
Access Identifier,
zero, one or a plurality of correlated Voting Access PassCodes, Voter Limits
of Use Data, Voter
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Validation data, Voter Authentication data, Voter Certification data, the
date, time, location and
zero, one or a plurality of Voting Session Devices Identifiers, Voter, Proxy
and Ballot Processing
Agents Identifiers, which are immutably stored and correlated with a unique
Transaction Identifier
and Data Signature that is correlated to the Accept4Voting Event which also
has a unique Events
Identifier that is also correlated with aforesaid data and immutably stored;
further step of at least
one Ballot Agent or Ballot Agent Device generating one public, unique and
extremely hard to guess,
Voter Public Random Symbolic Identifier also referred to as Voter Public RSID
which also has a
correlated Voter Public PassCode which is then revealed, communicated and
provided to the Voter
or Proxy Voter and is further recorded, stored in or on immutable media; said
Voter Public RSID is
also randomly inserted into a list of many other Voter Public RSIDs that is
randomly mixed for the
list contents, not individual Voter Public RSIDs which remain unchanged, so as
to obscure the time
that any single Voter Public RSID that is created which could link to a
particular Voter or Proxy
Voter;, then the said List of Voter Public RSIDs and incremental changes
thereof is securely sent to
Primary RegistrationOfficials, Official Agents and Official Processing Devices
at regular intervals;
(v) for each of a plurality of Voters and Proxy Voters whom have successfully
Registered to Vote, upon further employing zero, one or a plurality of said
acceptable Official
methods of this invention for Voting and casting Ballots submitting said
Registration Voting
Ballots or other Documents and Containers to at least one Official , Official
Ballot Agent or Official
Ballot Agent Device:
(a) at least one Voter Public Random Symbolic Identifier having acronym:Voter
Public
RSID and at least one Voter Public PassCode, and optionally:
(b) zero, one or a plurality of: Ballot RSIDs and Ballot PassCodes, and
optionally
(c) zero, one or a plurality of Ballot Voting RSIDs and Ballot Voting
PassCodes;
(vi) said Official, Official Ballot Agents and Official Ballot Agent Device s
accepting
said Voter Public RS1D and Voter Public PassCode, then searching for matching
pair of Voter
Public RSID and Voter Public PassCode on Public List of Registered Voters,
then:
(a) upon successfully found a matching pair on the Public List of Registered
Voters, then validating
as matching by zero, one or a plurality of Officials, Official Ballot Agent
and zero, one or a plurality
of Official Ballot Agent Voting Session Devices; copying, authenticating and
certifying said Voter
and Voter correlated Security Elements, Limits of Use data, as well as the
dates, times, methods and
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locations available for the Voter or Proxy Voter according to the Public
Registered Voter List and
any other further processing of claim 3; or, alternatively,
(b) upon Officials, Official Ballot Agents or Official Ballot Agents Devices
failing to
validate, authenticate or certify said Voter Public RSID and correlated Voter
Public PassCode then
rejecting, suspending or disallowing Voter or Proxy Voter from access to the
Voting System,
recording and notifying by messages and signals to each rejected, suspended or
disallowed Voter,
Proxy Voter and also to Registration Officials; and further at least one
Ballot Processor Agent or
Ballot Agent managed Voting Session Device alternatively rejects the provided
Voter Public RSID
and Voter Public PassCode as not being on the Official Public List of
Registered Voters; thereafter
Ballot Processing Agents or said Voting Session Devices providing zero, one or
a plurality of retry
attempts until exceeding a threshold value, then denying any further retry
attempts for a specified
time, or suspending or completely denying that attempted Voter Public RSID and
Voter Ballot
PassCodes as well as the Voter and their detectable personal electronic
machine identifier,
electronic address, electronic mail address, telephone number, or Internet
Provider allocated
Internet address, or television electronic address or other personal or device
specific identifiers;
(vii) for each of a plurality of Ballots of individual Voters and Proxy
Voters, upon
Ballot Agents and Ballot Agent Devices providing positive certification of
said Voters and Proxy
Voters, at least one Ballot Agents or Ballot Agent Devices then enabling each
of a plurality of said
certified Voters and Proxy Voters and zero, one or a plurality of Personal
Communications Devices
and related software, security methods and devices, and communications
networks used by Voters
and Proxy Voters so as to be enabled to connect, engage, communicate and
interact with zero, one
or a plurality of: Officials, Official Ballot Agents and zero, one or a
plurality of Ballot Agents
Voting Devices, at zero, one or a plurality of locations, physical or virtual
or at zero, one or a
plurality of polling stations physical or virtual but only at one location and
only one polling station
for each single Ballot of each Voter and each Proxy Voter, by further by
locking access to each
Ballot to solitary event submissions and solitary event amendments or
corrections; for a plurality of
Voters and Proxy Voters that each successfully submits a certified pair of
Voter Public RSID and
Voter Public PassCode, thereafter a plurality of Ballot Agents and a plurality
of Ballot Agent
Devices granting and providing accesses and secure connections to zero, one or
a plurality of
Ballot Agent Voting Devices and software programs, and to zero, one or a
plurality of Ballot Agent
Communications Systems, Networks, Devices and software programs used for that
portion of the
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Voting Session assigned for Ballots Validation, Authentication, Certification,
Selections,
Amendments, Corrections and Casting, and optionally for creating, recording,
assigning, storing,
retrieving, reporting, and correlating Ballot Voting Random Symbolic
Identifiers, Ballot Voting
PassCodes;
(viii) a plurality of Voters and a plurality of Proxy Voters being provided
with or
otherwise providing at least one Ballot RSID and correlated Ballot PassCode,
zero, one or a
plurality of Ballot Voting RSIDs and correlated Ballot Voting Passcodes; at
least one Ballot Agent
or Ballot Agent Devices receiving said Ballot RSID and correlated Ballot
Passcode, zero, one or a
plurality of Ballot Voting RSIDs and correlated Ballot Voting Passcodes; in
the case whereby no
Ballot Voting RSID is provided, said Ballot Agents and Ballot Agents Devices
creating exactly
one unique, extremely hard to guess Activated Ballot Voting RSID, which is
then further correlated
to one extremely hard to guess randomly generated or Voter provided Activated
Ballot Voting
PassCode and optionally, a unique Activated Voter Identifier which is then
correlated to the said
Activated Ballot Voting RSID and Activated Ballot Voting PassCode, or,
alternatively if a Ballot
Voting RSID is provided, correlating, verifying, validating and authenticating
said provided
Activated Ballot Voting RSID then verifying, validating and authenticating
said provided to
provided Activated Ballot Voting PassCode; said Activated Ballot Voting RSID,
Activated Ballot
Voting PassCode and Activated Voter Identifier are then revealed, transmitted
or otherwise
provided to each said Registered Voter and to each said Registered Proxy Voter
that has begun their
Voting Process with said Ballot Agents and Ballot Agent Voting Session
Devices; said correlated
Activated Ballot Voting RSIDs and Activated Ballot Voting PassCodes are
recorded and stored on
or in immutable media, along with date, time, Ballot Agent Identifier, Ballot
Agent Voting Session
Devices Identifier, and Transaction Identifier; said Activated Voter
Identifier, Activated Ballot
RSIDs and Activated Ballot PassCodes thereafter managed by Ballot Agents for
the entire Voting
Session, and eventually communicated to Primary Officials in groups that are
randomly mixed
without date data or other data that could be used to correlate a Voter or
Proxy Voter to a specific
Activated Voter Identifier, Activated Ballot RSID, Activated Ballot PassCode;
(ix) For a plurality of Ballot Agents, Ballot Agent Devices, Voters and Proxy
Voters: at least one Ballot Agents and Ballot Agent Devices then either:
(a) admit to the Ballot Agent Voting System, each certified Voters and
certified
Proxy Voters that was found on the Public List of Voters RSIDs; said Ballot
Agents and Ballot
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Agent Devices establish a secure connection between the Ballot Agents Voting
System to the Voter
or Proxy Voter employed communications systems, networks, devices and
software; zero, one or a
plurality of Ballot Agents and at least one Ballot Agent Devices then render
exactly one optical,
electronic, electro-magnetic Official Voting Ballot upon the Ballot Agent
Devices or Voter or Proxy
Voter personal devices; Ballot Agents and Ballot Agent Voting System Devices
then further apply
the previously said Activated Ballot RSID to the rendered Official Voting
Ballot, then further
enabling the Ballot Agent Voting System software to allow each said enabled
Voter and enabled
Proxy Voter to mark to select zero, one or a plurality of Ballot Candidate or
Group choices, to
provide zero, one or a plurality of alternative write-in Candidate or Group
choices, and mark to
select zero, one or a plurality of Proposals, and to provide zero, one or a
plurality of alternative
write-in Proposals, and to further add zero, one or a plurality of private,
Personal Security Items so
as to complete their Official Voting Ballot and correlated Activated Ballot
RSID which is then
submitted for error checking, error detecting, error correcting, zero, one or
a plurality of
amendments, zero, one or a plurality of resubmissions - all of which is
monitored, controlled, co0-
joined, merged and processed by the Ballot Agents and Ballot Agents Voting
System Devices and
software programs ;
(b) and further whereby each of a plurality of cast Official Voting Ballots,
Activated Ballot
RSIDs, said Voter and Proxy Voter particular Candidate or Group choices and
Candidate or Group
write-in choices, Proposal selections and Proposal write-in values are
combined with the date, time,
unique location identifier, polling station identifier, unique Ballot Agent
Identifier, unique Ballot
Agent Voting Device Identifier, Agent Communication Network Identifier, Voter-
Proxy Device
Identifier, Voter-Proxy Network Identifier, Voter-Proxy Device Identifier,
Voting Session
Identifier, Voting Transaction Identifier, Official Cast Ballot Image, Cast
Ballot Receipt, Cast
Ballot Data Vault electronic address and the unique Cast Ballot Data Vault
Access RSID that is
provided by the Voter, Proxy Voter or Agent Voting System Devices when a
Ballot is submitted
and for counting and tallying;
Optionally encrypting the contents of said Cast Ballot Data Vault using the
Cast Ballot Data
Vault Access RSID by employing zero, one or a plurality of encryption
algorithms and public
encryption keys provided by the Voter or the Ballot Agents, Agent Encryption
Devices, Agent
Encryption software;
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(c) and further upon successful completion and submission of said co-joined
and merged
Official Voting Ballot and Activated Ballot RSID and said Voter and Proxy
Voter choices, write-in
choices and selections, said Ballot Agent and Ballot Agent Voting System
Devices and software
programs: accepting, recording, imaging, storing, data extracting, reading, ~,
interpreting,
interpolating, verifying, counting, tallying, retrieving, publishing,
auditing, investigating, correcting,
confirming, certifying and any further or any other processing of claim 3, for
creating of a plurality
of Cast Ballot Public Record for each Cast Activated Official Ballot, which is
securely stored in or
on immutable media, then accurately copied and verified as an exact duplicate
before forwarding
said duplicate copy to Primary Officials for counting, tallying, publishing
and certifying, publishing,
auditing, investigating, amending, confirming; further step of storing an
exact copy of the said Cast
Ballot Public Record in the Cast Ballot Data Vault that is correlated to the
Official Voting Ballot
RSID;
and the further steps and methods of zero, one or a plurality of Ballot Agents
and zero, one
or a plurality of Ballot Agent Voting System Devices and software programs
verifying and then
marking the List of Voter Public RSIDs so as to indicate the cast Ballot
status and to signal and
disable the same Voter Public RSID from being used again unless allowed
multiple ballots by the
Electoral Board and Voting Session Rules in which case the threshold limit is
checked and the
Voter or Proxy Voter is enabled or disabled accordingly; and further Officials
regularly review
said List of Voter Public RSIDs and upon detecting that a Voter Public RSID
has voted, obtains the
correlated Voter Private RSID and accesses that Voter Registration data to
mark that they have cast
a ballot, and the status of that Ballot when submitted; or, alternatively
(b) at least one Ballot Processor Agent or Ballot Agent managed Voting Session
Device
alternatively rejects the provided Voter Public RSID and Voter Public PassCode
as not being on the
Official Public List of Registered Voters; thereafter Ballot Processing Agents
or said Voting Session
Devices providing zero, one or a plurality of retry attempts for zero, one or
a plurality of Voters and
Proxy-Voters until exceeding a threshold value, then denying any zero, one or
a plurality of said
Voters and Proxy-Voters further retry attempts for a specified time, or
suspending or completely
denying that attempted Voter Public RSID and Voter Public PassCode, as well as
recording the
Voter (or Proxy Voter) Public RSID and their detectable personal electronic
machine identifier,
electronic address, telephone number, or internet provider (IP) allocated
Internet address, or internet
provided address or television electronic address or any other personal or
device specific identifiers;
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(x) for each of a plurality of Voters and Proxy Voters:
(a) successfully completing and submitting at least one of their Ballots,
Ballot Agents and
Agents Devices generating a new Voting Storage Identifier, allowing the Voter
to enter their own
private PassWord or PassCode and zero, one or a plurality of Personal Security
Items which are
then securely stored on immutable media using POEM methods, optimizing for
data storage and
data retrieval; a plurality of Ballot Processing Agents and Ballot Agent
Devices waiting for a
plurality of successfully cast Ballots to accrue, then sending and
transmitting time delayed groups of
randomly mixed, successfully completed Voter Ballot Identifiers, their
correlated Voter Candidate
or Group choices, write-in Candidate or Group choices Proposals, and write-in
Proposals, to at least
one Officials Voting Session Devices and zero, one or a plurality of Officials
employing secure
communications methods, software, networks and devices; Ballot Agents and
Ballot Agent Devices
restricting Voter specific and inferential data from Primary Officials and
zero, one or a plurality of
Electoral Board members, otherwise securely communicating for a plurality of
and for each
Activated Voting Ballot RSID, correlated Ballot Candidate Choices and Write-In
Candidate
choices, Proposal selections and write-in Proposal selections, certification
data, zero, one or a
plurality of Security Elements, Limits of Use data, signals and messages for
each Activated Voting
Ballot and optionally, the Internet address Uniform Resource Locator where the
Ballot data is stored
for Voter private auditing, but absolutely no Voter or Proxy Voter specific,
derivable or inferable
information that would allow Primary Officials or Electoral Board members to
identify the Voter or
Proxy Voter, nor to enable anyone to link them to any of their correlated
Activated Voter Identifier,
Activated Ballot RSID or their Activated PassCodes; or, alternatively,
(b) upon Ballot Agents or Ballot Agents Devices failing to validate,
authenticate or certify
said Voter Public RSID and correlated Voter Public PassCode then rejecting,
suspending or
disallowing Voter or Proxy Voter from access to the Voting System, recording
and notifying by
messages and signals to each rejected, suspended or disallowed Voter, Proxy
Voter and also to
Registration Officials; and further at least one Ballot Processor Agent or
Ballot Agent managed
Voting Session Device alternatively rejects the provided Voter Public RSID and
Voter Public
PassCode as not being on the Official Public List of Registered Voters;
thereafter Ballot Processing
Agents or said Voting Session Devices providing zero, one or a plurality of
retry attempts until
exceeding a threshold value, then denying any further retry attempts for a
specified time, or
suspending or completely denying that attempted Voter Public RSID and Voter
Ballot PassCodes as
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well as the Voter and their detectable personal electronic machine identifier,
electronic address,
telephone number, or internet provider Official or Virtual Private Network
assigned Internet
address, or internet provided electronic mail or other address or television
electronic address or any
other personal or device specific identifiers;
(xi) and for aforesaid steps and methods, the further steps and methods of
claim 3 whereby
said Ballot Processing Agents employ zero, one or a plurality of, and any
types of similar, identical
or distinct and independent methods of: data compression and decompression,
data encryption and
data decryption, data error checking, data error detecting, data correcting as
well as false error
detection for said Ballot Processing; said Ballot Processing Agents further
providing distinct and
independent steps and methods for validating, authenticating and granting
Voters access to the
Ballot Processing System and for all other steps and methods of completing,
error checking,
amending and submitting Ballots for tallying, storage, certification and
submission of Ballot filtered
data to Officials for tallying, as well as for all the after Voting auditing
procedures and publications;
(xii) and for the aforesaid and following claims, steps and methods whereby
for a
plurality of Voters, Proxy Voters, Officials, Primary Officials, Registration
Officials, Primary
Officials, Electoral Board members, Ballot Processing Agents, Ballot Agents,
employing the
Official Devices, Official Registration Devices, Ballot Agent Devices, Ballot
Agent Voting
Devices, Ballot Agent Vote Processing Devices according to claim 1, which are
used for receiving,
validating, authenticating, verifying, imaging, reading, extracting, copying,
duplicating, securely
storing, securely retrieving, securely communicating the Voters, Proxy Voters,
Primary Officials,
Electoral Board Members, Ballot Processing Agents private personal information
and Official data
excluding all the Voters Ballot choices and write-in selections as well as all
connective data or
derivable connective information that would link any Voter or Proxy Voter to a
particular Ballot,
Ballot choices and write-in choices; and any such further processing, steps
and methods according
to claims 1 through 20;
(BB) and further to the Computerize Voting System of Claim 1, the further
steps and
methods of applying Networking, Multi-Processor Parallel Computing and
Artificial Intelligence
Processing whereby: a plurality of Officials, Official Appointees, Official
Agents and Official
Voting System Devices are proactively:
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(1) employing a plurality of computers running a plurality of software
programs as
functioning independently or cooperatively via zero, one or a plurality of any
types of networks and
any types of communications systems;
(2) employing a plurality of computers running a plurality of software
programs functioning
independently or cooperatively employing zero, one or a plurality of, and any
types of computer
neural networks, artificial intelligence software, electronic or optical or
electromagnetic vote
processing devices and communication networks used for data processing,
storage, telemetry,
communications, security, and for any types of functions or processes of this
invention : Ballot
image capturing, Ballot data field reading and decoding, data storage, search
and retrieval,
intelligent image processing, RSID character reading, device assignment and
prioritization, resource
allocation, data searches, data retrievals, data communications, data
security, system access security,
Voter authentication, Registration processing, Ballot sorting, tallying,
analysis, reporting, error
detection, error identification, error specification, error localization,
error correction and error data
recovery, error detection rejection, error messaging, and for security data
and regular data, RS1D,
Ballot, Voter Registration, Documents, Containers, reports, events, data for
each of a plurality of
Voter, Proxy-Voter and Officials input and their devices signals and
telemetry, and data
communications so as to further provide: authentication, certification,
forgery detection, forgery
rejections, duplicate detections, duplicate rejections, duplicate extractions,
Document design,
printing, Voter Registration, Ballot processing, Voter Registration research,
Ballot sorting,
distribution, receiving, vote processing device workload balancing,
calculating, computing by non-
quantum physics computers, computing by quantum physics computers, network
communications,
telephony communications, internet communications and quantum physics secure
communications
and for each claims, steps and methods of this invention.
[Claim 20] The Computerized Voting System of claim 1 wherein: Officials,
Official
Agents and Official Vote Processing Devices provides steps and methods for
each Ballot, Voter
Registration, Voter Language Form, or other items related to the Voting
Session that is received,
such that a certified copy is made available to at each Eligible Voter for
verification and error
processing: error detection, error identification, error specification, error
reporting, error
localization, error position locating, error marking, error correction, error
data recovery, false error
detection rejection, and further that at least one means, method and
opportunity of reporting errors,
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receiving and signalling errors is provided; and the further steps and methods
whereby zero, one or
a plurality of Officials, or zero, one or a plurality of Eligible Voters, or
at least one designated Proxy
representative that possess the unique combination of the Ballot Voting RSID
and PassCode RSID
for each disputed Voter Registration or Ballot submits the Voter Registration
or Ballot
electronically to Officials, or, zero, one or a plurality of errors are
reported by presentation of zero,
one or a plurality of sufficiently intact Ballots zero, one or a plurality of
Voter Registrations ,
Voter Language forms , zero, one or a plurality of Ballot Containers by zero,
one or a plurality of
Potential Voters, Eligible Voters or designated representative Proxy Voters,
for each disputed:
Voter Registration, Voter-Proxy Language Selection form, Ballot , Container;
and the further steps
and methods whereby for zero, one or a plurality of special persons or other
special legal entities
that are authorized by a Voter owning an appropriate, bona fide Receipt, to be
given access to any
electronic, digital, or any other transformed version of printable Ballot,
Form, Document or
Container of this invention, the Officials will provide a certified copy or
representation of zero, one
or a plurality of items identified as Crucial Integrity Data Items; and the
further steps whereby at
least one Official provides each Voter with at least one method, and at least
one opportunity, to
verify or correct the accuracy of the Official Record of any record, tally,
calculation, summary, or
publication pertaining to each of a plurality of certified Ballots or
certified Ballot vote selections;
and the further steps and methods whereby zero, one or a plurality of
Registered Voters, Proxy
Voters, Officials and authorized legal entities, use their Receipt Ballot and
zero, one or a plurality of
methods to verify the accuracy of Ballot processing or each of a plurality of
other Documents and
records processing by personally contacting in-person at least one Official,
or by personally
accessing or by electronically connecting to at least one of a plurality of
Official Voting Session
Devices, using at least one of aforesaid methods of registration, delivery and
voting: by using a
telephone, cellular phone, interactive television, electronic mail facsimile
machine, personal data
communications device, or, a computer connect to the Internet, television
network, cable Television
data network, or tele-communications network, or In-Person using any
combinations of optical,
electronic, electromagnetic personal and Official Vote Processing Devices,
whereupon a
communication session is established, zero, one or a plurality of Registered
Voters, Proxy Voters,
Officials, legal entities verify, challenge, accept and reject zero, one or a
plurality of Official
Documents, images, records, processes, events, tallys, calculations,
summaries, communications, or
publications of their Master Ballot or voting selections made on their Master
Ballot; and the further
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steps and methods whereby zero, one or a plurality of Voters notify at least
one or a plurality of
Officials, Official Agents, Official Devices to investigate and correct zero,
one or a plurality of
errors discovered; and the further steps and methods whereby at least one
Official records each
Voter request to investigate, with all relevant details; and the further steps
and methods whereby at
least one or a plurality of said Officials, Official Agents, Official Devices
proceed to investigate
whether to accept or reject each Voter request to amend zero, one or a
plurality of errors, then report
to any number Voters, Proxy Voters, and authorized legal entities, as to
whether an amendment is
required as requested, along with each Official findings of the investigation
which is all duly
recorded in the Official records; and the further steps and methods if
required, whereby at least one
Official then amends the records, tallies, summaries, calculations, and
publications to correct the
records and tallies of zero, one or a plurality of Master Ballots, or Voter
selections made on the
Master Ballots, in accordance with the findings and the Rules of the Voting
Session; and the further
steps and methods whereby at least one Official verifies any amendments were
completed
accurately; and the further steps and methods whereby at least one of said
Officials, Official Agents,
Official Devices records in the Official records, and reports to zero, one or
a plurality of Voters or
other interested legal entities as to when the amendments are completed, along
with the results of
the Official verification of the amendments; and the further steps and methods
whereby at least one
Official provides each Voter with at least one method, and at least one
opportunity, to accept or
reject the accuracy of each of a plurality of amended records, tallies,
summaries, calculations, or
publications; and whereby zero, one or a plurality of Voters verify
correctness or report errors of
zero, one or a plurality of amendments; and further that at least one Official
generates zero, one or a
plurality of Internet WebPages and zero, one or a plurality of Official use
only intra-net WebPages
and printable Document visual renderings that shall then be correlated to each
submitted Voter
Registration and assigned one unique Voter Registration Identifier and that is
correlated to the set of
Registration data and set of Registration System data and set of Registration
processing data for
each Voter Registration Identifier; and
(ii) the further steps and methods whereby for each Officially Approved Voter
Registration, at least one Official generates a Voter Language Selection
Internet webpage and zero,
one or a plurality of Official use only intra-net WebPages and printable
Document visual renderings
that are each correlated to said Voter Registration Identifier and to the set
of Voter Language data
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and set of Language System data and the set of Voter Language selection
processing data for each
submitted Voter Language selection;
(iii) whereby for each Officially Approved Voter Registration at least one
Official
generates exactly one unique and privately accessible Internet web page with a
webpage Internet
address that is correlated via the unique Voter Registration that is further
encoded so as to be part of
the Internet Universal Resource Locator for the Ballot private webpage;
further said webpage is
protected by a Voter changeable PassWord requiring authentication to change
said PassWord; and
zero, one or a plurality of Official use only intra-net WebPages and printable
Document visual
renderings that shall then be correlated to each unique Voter Registration
Identifier;
(iv) for each submitted Ballot-ID RSID and Ballot Voting RSID generating zero,
one
or a plurality of Internet web-pages and zero, one or a plurality of Official
use only intra-net web-
pages that are directly correlated to the set of voting data, set of Voting
System data and the
processing data set for each Ballot-ID RSID thereof said Ballot-ID RSID and
Ballot Voting RSID;
and zero, one or a plurality of Official use only intra-net WebPages and
printable Document visual
renderings that shall then be correlated to each submitted Ballot Voting RSID
and Ballot-ID RSID;
said webpage Internet address that is correlated via the unique Ballot Voting
RSID and Ballot-ID
RSID that is further encoded so as to be part of the Internet Universal
Resource Locator for the
Ballot private webpage;
(v) and further step of requiring the Official Ballot PassCode to access and
optionally
decrypt the private webpage for viewing; and further optional step of
requiring the Voter Personal
PassWord or Ballot PassCode or Voter Registration PassCode or any combination
thereof said
PassWords and PassCodes to give access to and optionally decrypt each Voter
private webpage for
a plurality of Voters and a plurality of Voter WebPages; and for a plurality
of Voters and a plurality
of Voter WebPages; upon actuating the correct access Universal Resource
Locator (URL) and
correlated webpage PassCodes or PassWords for the Voter Registration or Proxy
Registration or
Official or Ballot data storage vault, the further steps of accessing and
optionally decrypting each
Voter private webpage network address locations and correlated data storage
vault by providing
website or data vault login of UserID: Voter Identifier, Proxy Identifier or
Official Identifier,
Official Agent Identifier, or Voting Session Device Identifier and at least
one PassCode or
PassWord and zero, one or a plurality of additional alpha-numeric symbols,
graphic symbols,
language symbols, images, signature, initials, graphical drawings, glyphs,
audio records, eye retina
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scans, or other bio-metric data to confirm the Voter, Proxy or Official
identity or validity of being a
person not an automated program attempting to gain unauthorized access to any
portions of the
Computerized Voting System, Computerized Registration System, Officials Data
Processing,
Networks or Communications Systems and to any related data therein.
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