Patent ID: 8313383
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A system for playing an interactive voter choice game to elect a candidate for public office in a fictive election district, comprising: a plurality of remote user terminals; a rectangular game board displayed on the user terminals, said game board divided into a plurality of indicia-bearing spaces located along its perimeter comprising game pieces, dice, drawing cards, and indicia-bearing cards in card decks displaying legislative options, said game board configured for access by remote user terminals, said user terminals configured to allow players to move around spaces of said game board their game pieces representing each player after throwing dice to determine how many spaces a player may advance at each turn; a computer network, wherein the network comprises at least the Internet and a website on the Internet, said network and website configured for access by a plurality of remote user terminals to access the game board, game pieces, dice, drawing cards and card decks to play the game; a computerized election district database of objects located in a storage device on the network, comprising a list of fictive election districts; said computerized election district database is further configured to comprise data regarding the legislative preferences of voters and prior voting patterns of voters residing in each fictive election district, and emerging trends; said user terminals are configured to periodically access said election district database to select an election district from said list in which users wish to play the game; said user terminals are configured to periodically access said election district database to review said election district data; a computerized legislative options database of objects located in a storage device on the network, each object representing a legislative option available to users for inclusion in users' legislative agendas; each of the said legislative options in said computerized legislative options database contains the number of votes that the option will elicit from voters residing in the district who favor the option, according to data from the said election district database; said user terminals are configured to periodically access the network to choose legislative options from the computerized legislative options database to create legislative agendas and voting blocs of voters favoring the options, or delete chosen options from their agendas and blocs; said user terminals are configured to transmit the legislative options chosen by users from the computerized legislative options database to users' legislative agendas and voting blocs; said user terminals are configured to transmit to a computerized legislative priorities database located in a storage device on the network the legislative options contained in users' legislative agendas; said legislative priorities database is further configured to continuously tally changes in the total number of votes contained in users' legislative agendas and voting blocs; said legislative priorities database is further configured to continuously display on said user terminals changes in the total number of votes contained in users' legislative agendas and voting blocs; said user terminals are configured to periodically query the computerized legislative priorities database to identify users whose legislative agendas contain legislative options similar to the legislative options contained in querying users' legislative agendas; said computerized legislative priorities database comprised of subsets of objects from the legislative options database is further configured to transmit to querying users' terminals a list responsive to their query; said user terminals configured to query the legislative priorities database and identify users with legislative options in their legislative agendas that are statistically similar to the querying users' legislative options are further configured to contact the user terminals of users on the said list with similar legislative options, to negotiate merging the respective users' legislative agendas and voting blocs; a computerized questions and events database of objects located in a storage device on the network, each object adding votes to users' voting blocs or subtracting votes from users' voting blocs; said user terminals are further configured to draw objects from the questions and events database that add or subtract votes from the users' voting blocs; said user terminals are further configured to transmit to the legislative priorities database the objects from the questions and events database that add or subtract votes from users' voting blocs; Said legislative priorities database is further configured to tally votes cast by users' voting blocs after the election is called to determine who wins the election.