Patent ID: 7757950
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: G07C

Abstract:
1. An election system for enabling coercion free remote voting, comprising: a smart card configured to record a secret code; and a host computer having a card reader configured to receive the smart card and read the secret code from the smart card, the host computer configured by a program to transmit a selected vote over a data transmission network to an election authority responsive to the secret code; wherein the host computer is further configured by the program to: generate a plurality of dummies in response to the secret code; show the plurality of dummies and the secret code to a voter in a sequentially numbered dummy list, each of the plurality of dummies and the secret code associated with a number each of the sequentially numbered dummy list; provide a plurality of voting choices to the voter in a sequentially numbered voting choice list, each of the plurality of voting choices associated with a number each of the sequentially numbered voting choice list; and in response to the voter voting for one of a plurality of voting choices and selecting one of the shown plurality of dummies and the secret code: