EP0199683A2 - Appareil électronique pour l'administration automatique d'un centre de vote - Google Patents

Appareil électronique pour l'administration automatique d'un centre de vote Download PDF

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EP0199683A2
EP0199683A2 EP86830095A EP86830095A EP0199683A2 EP 0199683 A2 EP0199683 A2 EP 0199683A2 EP 86830095 A EP86830095 A EP 86830095A EP 86830095 A EP86830095 A EP 86830095A EP 0199683 A2 EP0199683 A2 EP 0199683A2
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Piero Industrie Elettroniche Capodimonti
Claudio Industrie Elettroniche Montanari
Ubaldo Industrie Elettroniche Poggi
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    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
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  • the present invention refers to an electronic apparatus for the automated management of a polling station and more particularly is concerned with an electronic apparatus which allows the vote indications of each voter to be gathered in the maximum of secrecy and with a great ease of use by the elector and the ballot data to be-processed and possibly transmitted to a gathering centre in an extremely short time at the end of the ballot operations.
  • the main object of the present invention is to provide an electronic automated voting apparatus, which gives the elector again a voting methodology which is the most plausible analoguous to the present one.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus which allows the possibility of error made by the elector to be reduced with respect to the system in use today .
  • a further object is to absolutely prevent the possibility of ballot rigging and at the same time to give the Bench the real possibility of checking the democratic course of the electoral process.
  • Still another object is to reduce the necessary time for obtaining the final data and the archiving cost.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide an electronic apparatus for the automated management of a polling station restrained as to cost and simple as to embodiment, and suitable for mass production.
  • the electronic apparatus for the automated management of a polling station comprises in combination: a central processor; at least one terminal having a means for a visual display for the elector and a means for a command acceptance from the elector; sealable mass memory means for keeping the data relating to the ballot; and a control console at the disposal of the polling station officer for enabling the voting operations of each elector .
  • the present apparatus with transmission means for a connection with the data gathering centre and/or with a printer for a local print-out of the data relating to the ballot.
  • the advantage is obtained in that the data can be recorded with a cryptographic language and on two mass memories, one of which is a working memory and the other of which is an alternative to the former in case of failure thereof, and can be transmitted in detail, at the end of the voting operations, in a cryptographic language, i.e. with encryptographic security keys during transmission and decryptographic security keys during reception, from the single stations to the territory competent data gathering centre or member, guaranteeing from that time the availability of a second copy in a separated place and, if desired, under the control of the Bench.
  • a further advantage is that, at the end of this latter operation, the data, this time consolidated, can be immediately transmitted to the intermediate gathering centres, such as Prefectures and the like, and then to the Home Office, which will provide, after the subject checks, for divulging it as a whole.
  • Still another advantage consists in that the mass memories of the single polling stations can then be archived with suitable procedures in a limited room and therefore with acceptable overall dimensions.
  • a control console 24 has terminal enabling keys 26 and terminal disabling keys 28, one for each of the terminals 12 and 14, respectively, and a number of voting enabling keys 30. Furthermore, the control console 24 has some keys 32 for special functions, as it will be better described in the following.
  • the central processor 10 is further connected to a printer 34 for the local print-out of the data.
  • a dial telephone network connecting device comprised of a conversion or modem apparatus 36, allows a duplex connection of the apparatus of figure 1 to a data gathering centre, through a line 38 of the dial network itself.
  • the data gathering centre comprises a processing station 42 connected to the dial telephone network through one or more conversion or modem apparatuses 44 and therefore it is able to connect itself, via a duplex connection through one or more lines 46 of the dial telephone network, to a number of apparatuses of the kind shown in figure 1 in order to receive and exchange data and commands with them.
  • the data gathering centre is further provided with high capacity mass memories 50, connected to the processing station 42 and suitable to receive and keep the centralized data relating to all the voting of the interested area.
  • the data gathering centre is further provided with a printer 52, connected to the processing station 42 for the local print-out of the required data.
  • each terminal 12, 14 comprises a screen 54 for the visual display for the elector and two keys 56 and 58, by means of which the elector transmits his commands. relating the voting to the central processor 10, in the way which will be better described in the following.
  • each terminal is provided with an array of infra-red emitters 60 and receivers 62 to exactly locate the contact position of an infra-red opaque object or pointer 64 resting on the terminal screen 54.
  • the operation of the present apparatus is as follows: in the stage of the preparation of the polling station, under the Spotifyity and supervision of the polling station officer, one provides for enabling the terminals; then, by means of one of the keys 32, the automatic loading of the data centrally pepared at each territory competent member is required,and the conformity exactness to a paper copy consigned by the territory competent member is checked and the data memory is sealed by means of the seal 22.
  • the predisposition of the data of the list of the preferences will have to be centralized at the various territory competent members and the data will be sent from there directly to the terminals at the polling stations through a telephone cable, at the request of the polling station officer in the preliminary phases and previous to the consultation, as it is being described.
  • the apparatus is ready to receive the first elector.
  • the polling station officer and/or one or more scrutineers activates one of the two terminals sending it the data for enabling it to receive that kind of voting.
  • the terminal activation takes place by pressing the voting enabling keys 30 relating to the voting which the elector is enabled to: each key 30 lights up confirming the command acceptance. Then one of the two terminal enabling keys 26 is pressed, relating to one of the terminals 12 and 14: this causes the voting keys 30 to be switched off and the pressed key 26 to light up. Now the console 24 is ready to enable the other of the two terminals 12 or 14 to be used, if it is free.
  • the elector enters the polling booth into which he has been permitted to vote, where he finds one of the terminals 12 or 14 with the kind of voting and the related list of the party symbols indicated on the video screen, as shown in figure 3, as to the political ballots, for example. Furthermore, he has at his disposal the two keys 56 and 58: the key "GO AHEAD" 56 to proceed into the various phases of the voting process and the key "CONFIRM VOTINi" 58 to express his own willingness to confirm his vote. Furthermore the elector has at his disposal the pointer 64 to carry out the symbol and preference choices.
  • the apparatus is based on a process of reproduction of the symbols and the preferences on a black and white or colour image video terminal of the kind known as "Touch Screen", i.e. capable of receiveng information on the screen through a sensor array which intercepts elements which touch the screen, whether they are a finger or a pencil or what has been generically called a pointer 64.
  • Touch Screen i.e. capable of receiveng information on the screen through a sensor array which intercepts elements which touch the screen, whether they are a finger or a pencil or what has been generically called a pointer 64.
  • the list of the official symbols of the parties will appear for the first type of voting, such as a graphic reproduction of a ballot-paper, as proposed according to figure 3 for the political ballot.
  • the kind of voting appears on a box 66 on the top of the terminal 54.
  • the elector touches with the pointer 64 the area in which the symbol itself is enclosed; the terminal 12 or 14, in order to better emphasize the decision of the elector, automatically proposes a cross on the symbol and the entire area of the choosen symbol begins to blink.
  • the key 58 is at least double in size with respect to the key 56 and different and determining in colour.
  • the terminal 12 or 14 automatically proposes the subsequent kind of voting, regional for instance, which the elector is enabled to participate in.
  • the apparatus will not accept preferences in a number greater than the allowed one for each kind of voting: as a consequence of this, wishing to change an already given preference and having already reached the maximum allowed preference number, one of the previously given preferences will have to be nullified before giving the new one.
  • the central processor 10 carries out the cryptography of the voting data and puts it in a random order into the mass memory, in order to have the maximum of secrecy about both the data and the progressive voting order of each single elector, to guarantee the impossibility of going back in any way, even subsequently, to the identification of the voter.
  • the central processor 10 causes the screen of the interested terminal to be completely erased and the luminous indicator of the terminal enabling key 26 to switch off and the terminal disabling key 28 to switch on, for the terminal 12 or 14 which is being used.
  • the apparatus will be able, if requested by means of one of the keys 32, of giving information about the voter percentage, and only about that.
  • the polling station officer sends the ballot closing command to the central processor 10 by means of one of the keys 32 and, from this time on, the data of the electoral kind will be no longer accepted.
  • the processing station 42 of the data gathering centre having once received the detail data, processes it, consolidates it and sends it back consolidated, comparing it with the consolidated data directly processed by the polling station apparatus and, only in the case that they are congruent, authorizes the print-out of the consolidated data on the polling station printer.
  • the processor of the data gathering centre will enable the print-out of a message at the polling station, which will certify the failure of the transmission.
  • the polling station officer Upon reception of such a message, the polling station officer will remove the seal 22 and put the memory floppy discs 18 and 20, the printed message and the other station paper at the disposal of the Bench.
  • the above described procedure has the enormous advantage that nobody knows the ballot results, until the moment in which at least two identical copies of the same information are located in different places, i.e. at the polling station and at the data gathering centre, almost totally reducing the possibility of electoral rigging.
  • the emitter and receiver array can use different frequencies from the infra-red ones, the acoustic frequencies, for example: otherwise it can be replaced by an optical pen responsive device.
  • the keys at the disposal of the elector can be different in number and have different significance from the ones used in the previously described preferred embodiment of this invention.
  • control console can obviously take on different configurations, for instance it can be divided, with the keys relating to a terminal phisically separated from those relating to the other terminal; furthermore, key lock controls can be provided for an increased security.
  • the terminal number itself can be varied at will, since a single terminal will suffice for polling stations with a little number of electors, whereas sometimes the two terminals alone will not suffice and there will be the need for increasing the number of them.
  • Other memory media can comprise hard disks, tapes, bubble memories, static and dinamic memories and any other memory medium used in the electronic field.
  • all the candidates' lists can be made to appear and, according to such a system, the elector can choose candidates of all the lists until reaching the maximum number allowed.

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EP0420354A1 (fr) * 1989-09-27 1991-04-03 N.V. Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek NEDAP Appareil de vote
NL1000449C2 (en) * 1995-05-29 1996-12-02 Wilhelmus Martinus Verhage Automatic polling system for elections and referenda
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FR2613514A1 (fr) * 1987-03-31 1988-10-07 Electroplus Sarl Machine a voter electronique
EP0420355A1 (fr) * 1989-09-27 1991-04-03 N.V. Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek NEDAP Appareil de vote
EP0420354A1 (fr) * 1989-09-27 1991-04-03 N.V. Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek NEDAP Appareil de vote
RU2181910C2 (ru) * 1995-04-13 2002-04-27 Нокиа Телекоммьюникейшнз Ой Способ и устройство для телеголосования в интеллектуальной сети
RU2153704C2 (ru) * 1995-04-13 2000-07-27 Нокиа Телекоммьюникейшнз Ой Способ и устройство для телеголосования в интеллектуальной сети
NL1000449C2 (en) * 1995-05-29 1996-12-02 Wilhelmus Martinus Verhage Automatic polling system for elections and referenda
GR970100455A (el) * 1997-11-21 1999-07-30 Συσκευη ψηφοφοριας με χρηση οθονης επαφης, πολυμεσων και ηλεκτρονικων υπολογιστων
NL1013859C2 (nl) * 1999-12-15 2001-06-18 Nedap Nv Geautomatiseerde inrichting voor keuze en verdeling van stemmen, waarbij gecumuleerd en gepanacheerd kan worden.
WO2001046882A1 (fr) * 1999-12-21 2001-06-28 Chumbley Gregory R Dispositif a voter electronique a enregistrement direct
US7422150B2 (en) 2000-11-20 2008-09-09 Avante International Technology, Inc. Electronic voting apparatus, system and method
US7431209B2 (en) 2000-11-20 2008-10-07 Avante International Technology, Inc. Electronic voting apparatus, system and method
EP1249799A3 (fr) * 2001-04-11 2005-05-18 Suomen Posti Oy Procédé, arrangement et dispositif pour voter
US7614553B2 (en) 2001-10-01 2009-11-10 Avante International Technology, Inc. Method for reading an optically readable sheet
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US7635087B1 (en) 2001-10-01 2009-12-22 Avante International Technology, Inc. Method for processing a machine readable ballot and ballot therefor
US7828215B2 (en) 2001-10-01 2010-11-09 Avante International Technology, Inc. Reader for an optically readable ballot
US8261986B2 (en) 2009-10-21 2012-09-11 Kevin Kwong-Tai Chung System and method for decoding an optically readable markable sheet and markable sheet therefor

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