Patent ID: 6935561
Filing Date: 2005-08-30
Classification: G07C,G07F

Abstract:
1. A system for carrying out votes, referenda and public opinion polls, the system including an integrated system for collecting data on arrangements being carried out, said integrated system consisting of a data collection subsystem and data preprocessing subsystem interconnected by means of a data network, characterized in that a payment system of any level—international, national, regional, local, or a combination of such payment systems is used as the integrated system for collecting the data on arrangements being carried out, and a communication environment of said payment system is used as the data network, said system for carrying out votes, referenda and public opinion polls comprising further a poll data processing center for a final processing of said data, the center being connected to said data collection and data preprocessing subsystems via said communication environment, a software of said payment system including an additional set of functions for carrying out votes, referenda and public opinion polls, for preprocessing the data on arrangements being carried out, for encrypting and decrypting those data, and for placing the data into information blocks to carry out both open and secret votes, referenda and public opinion polls, to exchange electronic messages containing said information blocks between said data collection and data preprocessing subsystems and the poll data processing center, and the software of the poll data processing center including a set of functions for exchanging said electronic messages with said subsystems, for decrypting the information blocks included into the messages, for accumulating and analyzing the data on votes, referenda and public opinion polls contained in the information blocks.