Distributed Voting Platform

摘要

An automated voting platform can allow a user to register to vote, view information about candidates, and submit votes in an election using his or her own personal computing device. To minimize the likelihood of voter fraud, the automated voting platform can implement an authentication process that requires the user to submit biometric or other identification information prior to being enabled to access the user's account with the automated voting platform. This authentication process can also require the user to repeatedly submit biometric information thereby ensuring that the same user continues to use the computing device while accessing the user's account.

主权项

1. A method, implemented by a server system, for providing an automated voting platform, the method comprising:
receiving, from a client computing device, a request to access an account of the automated voting platform, the request including user credentials for performing a first level of authentication; receiving, from the client computing device, biometric information of a user of the client computing device; comparing the received biometric information of the user to stored biometric information that is associated with the account to perform a second level of authentication; and upon determining that the received biometric information matches the stored biometric information, enabling the user to access the account to submit a vote for one or more candidates in an election.