Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Voting machine
Reexamination Certificate
2004-10-29
2008-03-18
Frech, Karl (Department: 2887)
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Voting machine
C705S012000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07344071
ABSTRACT:
A voting system for storing voter input data on a voter selection card, which is capable of storing data for a plurality of candidates, and the system, subsequently, prints a ballot marked in accordance with data on the voter selection card. A voter-assist terminal receives a blank voter selection card, and then presents candidate selection options to the voter visually by means of an LCD touch screen menu and aurally by means of a synthesized speech menu. Candidate selections entered by means of the touch screen menu or by means of the audio menu are stored on the voter selection card, and the voter selection card is returned to the voter to take to a reader terminal. The reader terminal sends the stored data on the voter selection card to an attached printer which prints a marked ballot corresponding to the voter's selections. The ballot is inserted in a ballot scanning device, wherein the ballot is tallied and deposited in a locked ballot box.
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Frech Karl
Taylor April A.
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