METHOD OF VALIDATING AN ELECTRONIC VOTE

摘要

An electronic voting method, system and apparatus is disclosed. A vote message is received at a network node, the vote message comprising a sender identifier, event identifier and a timestamp. The sender identifier, event identifier and times-tamp are read, and it is determined from the timestamp that an event window was open and whether the window was a first or sub-sequent window. In the event that the window is the first window, the vote and sender identifier are stored at a database. In the event that the window is a second or subsequent window, the sender identifier is compared to sender identifiers stored at a previous window and if a match is found the vote is marked as validated and the vote stored at the database.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of validating an electronic vote, adapted to be executed as a set of instructions by a processor, the method comprising:
receiving at a network element via a communication network a received vote message comprising a sender identifier, vote data and a timestamp; determining from the timestamp that the received vote message was received in a time window relating to an event, wherein the start of the time window relating to the event is defined by the time of broadcast of additional information regarding the event; accessing stored vote messages received at the network element during a previous time window relating to the event and stored at a data storage node, wherein the start of the previous time window relating to the event is defined by the first time of broadcast of the event; validating the received vote message by matching the sender identifier to a stored sender identifier in one of the stored vote messages, marking only a complete, matched sequence of vote messages for the sender identifier as validated; storing the received vote message at the data storage node; repeating the receiving, determining, accessing and storing to obtain a plurality of validated sequences of vote messages; and generating statistics from the vote data in the plurality of validated sequences of vote messages.