Systems, methods, and programs for voter information initialization and consolidation

摘要

Systems, methods, and programs allow for the secure compilation of vote data from electronic voting machines at a voting location. Systems, methods, and programs provide the secure electronic transmission of the vote data to a central location for tabulation. provide a vote data consolidation function that can collect and consolidate vote data from a plurality of types or generations voting machines. Systems, methods, and programs provide a vote data transmission function that can communicate with a server in a central tabulation headquarters to securely transmit vote data that has been consolidated from a plurality of voting machines. Systems, methods, and programs provide a voter initialization function, wherein, after establishing a voter's identity, a voter authorization card may be initialized for the voter to gain access to a voting machine.

主权项

1. A system for vote information consolidation, comprising:
a memory interface for inputting a physical portable memory device from each of a plurality of voting machines into the system, each memory device containing vote data for a corresponding one of the voting machines and which represents the votes of a plurality of voters that voted using the corresponding voting machine; a memory storing vote tally data; a transmitter for securely transmitting the vote tally data; and a controller that:
for the vote data for each of the plurality of voting machines:
recognizes a data structure of the input vote data from among a plurality of vote data structures;once the data structure has been recognized, decrypts the input vote data;validates the vote data by comparing the vote data to prestored validation information to ensure that the vote data is authentic; andbased on the data structure of the vote data, extracts vote count data from the input vote data and adds the vote count data to the vote tally data; andcauses the transmitter to securely transmit the vote tally data to a central tally server for tabulation.