Integrated ballot assembly

Details Integrated ballot assembly Integrated ballot assembly

2006-07-13

2009-11-17

Lee, Michael G (Department: 2876)

Registers

Systems controlled by data bearing records

Voting machine

C235S051000, C705S012000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07617978

ABSTRACT:
An integrated ballot assembly formed from a backing assembly, a ballot book, and connection between the ballot book and the backing assembly. The backing assembly is formed from a planar support card and an integrally formed, co-planar ballot card that is temporarily secured to the planar support card along a perforation line. The ballot book is formed from several voting information sheets that are arranged from top to bottom in a stack of successively lower voting information sheets where each sheet is progressively narrower. The ballot card has progressively leftward moving voting columns, and the ballot book is connected to the planar support card with the right edges of its successively narrower sheets corresponding to and aligned with successive ones of the voting columns. When completed, the ballot card may be removed directly from the integrated ballot assembly along the first perforation line. Alternatively, the planar support card may include a second perforation line that divides the planar support card into a mounting portion and a covering portion. In such case, the covering portion and the ballot card may be removed from the overall assembly along the second perforation line, and the covering portion may be folded about the first perforation line to cover the ballot card.

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