Patent ID: 7252229
Filing Date: 2007-08-07
Classification: G06Q,G07C

Abstract:
1. A voting system for making family decisions and method employing such system for charting the votes of members of a concerned group of individuals in order to arrive at a mutually agreeable outcome, comprising: means for allowing an individual column space for magnetic decision-making pieces to be placed representing the votes of each participant; means for marking the column with the name of the voter that will be using that column to register his or her votes; means for providing the steel properties to enable the magnetic decision-making pieces to adhere to the chart; means for providing a three dimensional property to the decision-making pieces that enables ease of manipulation; means for accommodating the choices to be voted upon, voters' names and their voting preferences via the attachment of the decision-making pieces, directly attached to said means for marking the column with the name of the voter that will be using that column to register his or her votes, and directly attached to said means for allowing an individual column space for magnetic decision-making pieces to be placed representing the votes of each participant; means for enabling the magnetic properties to the voting pieces, adhesively adhered to said means for providing a three dimensional property to the decision-making pieces that enables ease of manipulation; means for accommodating the choice to be voted upon, directly attached to said means for accommodating the choices to be voted upon, voters' names and their voting preferences via the attachment of the decision-making pieces; means for presenting a preprinted voting grid, adhesively adhered to said means for providing the steel properties to enable the magnetic decision-making pieces to adhere to the chart; means for providing write-on, wipe-off capabilities, fixedly adhered to said means for presenting a preprinted voting grid; means for recording a favorable vote, directly attached to said means for enabling the magnetic properties to the voting pieces; means for providing a printed grid for recording votes, adhesively adhered to said means for providing a three dimensional property to the decision-making pieces that enables ease of manipulation; means for providing write-on, wipe-off capabilities, fixedly adhered to said means for providing a printed grid for recording votes; means for providing printed general information, instructions or other related verbiage associated with the group voting system, adhesively adhered to said means for providing the steel properties to enable the magnetic decision-making pieces to adhere to the chart; means for providing write-on, wipe-off capabilities; means for providing printed symbols or verbiage which represent favorable, unfavorable and unsure votes; means for recording an unfavorable vote, directly connected to said means for enabling the magnetic properties to the voting pieces; and means for recording an unsure vote, directly connected to said means for enabling the magnetic properties to the voting pieces.