Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Voting machine
Reexamination Certificate
2007-12-11
2007-12-11
Hess, Daniel (Department: 2876)
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Voting machine
C235S051000, C235S056000, C235S057000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10294062
ABSTRACT:
According to one embodiment of the present invention, an advanced voting system includes one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices display ballot questions to the voter and receive interactive voter selections from the voter. A ballot generator generates encoded ballots encoded with the voter selections.
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Baker & Botts L.L.P.
Hess Daniel
Populex Corp.
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