Patent ID: 9165417
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G07C

Abstract:
1. A method for the protection of voting options for remote voting in which a physical copy of the selections made by an absentee voter is generated using a selection application suitable of being executed in a remote environment, comprising: a) generating, by the absentee voter, using a voting computer, an absentee marked vote in a physical support including an element that represents in a machine readable format at least the information of one or more selections made by said absentee voter, and sending this physical support through a physical channel to a central election office; b) receiving, by an operator at said central election office, the physical support and using, the operator, a retrieving computer with a reading device for reading the machine readable element of said physical support and retrieving the selections made by the absentee voter from the reading process; c) filling in a ballot template with the retrieved selections; d) generating, by the operator, using a printing device connected to the retrieving computer, an absentee marked paper ballot based on the ballot template that has the same format and appearance as paper ballots from non-absentee voters; and e) counting the generated absentee marked paper ballots by the same automated means used for counting the paper ballots non-absentee voters.