Patent ID: 8381977
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06K,G07C,H04L

Abstract:
1. A voting system, comprising: a ballot box configured to receive and authenticate a voted ballot paper and to generate a verified ballot paper from the voted ballot paper that has been authenticated by the ballot box, wherein the voted ballot paper comprises a recorded vote and a burnable radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, wherein the recorded vote includes candidate/party information for an election held on a voting day in a jurisdiction, wherein the burnable RFID tag includes an on-tag fuse that is not blown, and wherein the recorded vote is not revealable while the fuse is not blown and is revealable in response to the fuse being subsequently blown; and a ballot counting and sorting machine configured to receive and authenticate the verified ballot paper, to effectuate a blowing of the fuse to reveal the recorded vote after the verified ballot paper has been authenticated by the ballot counting and sorting machine, and to count the voted ballot paper and direct the ballot paper to a candidate box after the blowing of the fuse.