Federated voting with criteria-based discrimination

摘要

Technology for use with computing devices, particularly mobile devices and wireless networks supporting federation, enabling people, devices, systems, or the like to join together in electronic federations for purposes of voting or the like. The votes in such voting situations may be weighted based on various criteria associated with the voter, the subject of the vote, and/or other criteria relevant to the voting scenario. The technology also enables users to monitor a voting scenario in real-time and tailor their own voting or decisions or the like to the scenario, even as it unfolds.

主权项

1. A method performed on a mobile device of a federation of devices, the method comprising:
receiving registration criteria that are specific to a particular voting scenario, where the registration criteria comprise a list of voters of a plurality of voters, where the voters on the list are eligible for the particular voting scenario; receiving a registration request for a voter on the list for the particular voting scenario; determining, in response to the received registration request, that the voter meets the registration criteria; registering the voter, based on the determining, for the particular voting scenario; and registering, in response to the registering the voter, a presence of the registered voter in the particular voting scenario, where the registered presence of the registered voter in the particular voting scenario indicates that the voter has been registered for the particular voting scenario regardless of whether or not the voter casts a vote in the particular voting scenario and regardless of whether or not the voter withdraws the cast vote in the particular voting scenario.