Patent ID: 7537159
Filing Date: 2009-05-26
Classification: G07C

Abstract:
1. An electronic data entry device for use by citizens during an election so as to facilitate the actual act of voting, comprising: having electoral options displayed, where choices made by a voter from such options will be detected in order to cast a vote; designed to either connect directly to a voting machine, or to connect to another identical device which precedes said data entry device in a group, the group comprised of a plurality of identical devices connected to said voting machine in a daisy chain fashion; each data entry device connected in said daisy chain having a unique set of electoral options displayed; and having the choices made by a voter, from a set at displayed electoral options, detected and recognized as electric impulses when any one of the pressure-sensitive fields of any one of said devices in a chain is pressed by said voter in order to cast a vote.