Patent ID: 8812594
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for synchronizing voter databases between a plurality of electronic poll books, comprising: providing a plurality of electronic poll books operable to communicate over a network, each of said poll books having a unique identifier and comprising a database configured to store a plurality of voter records; for each of said poll books: transmitting an information packet comprising said unique identifier of said poll book over said network; receiving a plurality of information packets comprising said unique identifiers of other of said poll books communicating over said network; arranging said transmitted and received unique identifiers according to a predetermined ordering scheme; establishing communication with at least one other poll book based on said ordered unique identifiers; and exchanging voter record information with said at least one other poll book and updating said database with data received from said at least one other poll book to synchronize said poll book databases.