Patent ID: 7418401
Filing Date: 2008-08-26
Classification: G06Q,G07C

Abstract:
1. A secure electronic registration and voting system providing access to voting related subsystems and processes through a network, the secure electronic registration and voting system comprising: a central hosting facility, including a system web server for housing a home page and web pages, a data storage device for storing local election office data, and an application processing segment providing the voting related subsystems and processes, the application processing segment further including: a computer for accessing the central hosting facility through the network, and an application residing on said computing device, wherein said computing device application presents an electronic ballot to a user and said computing device application forwards voting data to the central hosting facility in an encrypted format, said voting data comprising a user identifier, an computing device identifier, and ballot data corresponding to ballot selections by the user, and wherein said central hosting facility receives and authenticates the voting data using the user identifier and the computing device identifier, and the central hosting facility stores the encrypted voting data without decrypting the ballot data.