Electronic voting system

摘要

An electronic voting process sends votes that have been entered via a general purpose user interface such as the keyboard of a PC to a vote collecting system. To prevent viruses between the interface and the vote collecting system from entering fraudulent votes, individualized ballot forms are used. Each for a different voter and each containing entries for respective ones of the options that can be made in the vote. Entries for different options within each one of the forms contain mutually different identifiers, identifiers in entries for equal options in different ones of the forms containing mutually different identifiers. Each ballot forms is sent to the voter for which it was individually generated. The voter enters the identifiers for his or her option and a voting system compares the identifier with the information about the identifiers for the identified voter stored in the vote collecting system. The vote is counted for the option, if any, that corresponds to the data for the identified voter according to the information stored in the vote collecting system