Patent ID: 8006894

Claim:
A method for conducting an election and preventing rigging of the election, including the steps of: providing a ballot consisting of a plurality of cards, each card presenting a single issue or contest to be voted on, providing a plurality of ballot boxes, each adapted to receive said cards, each of said ballot boxes identified as receiving all of one kind of single issue or contest cards, casting the ballot by inserting said cards into the respective single issue ballot boxes; and, counting each card as it is inserted into one of said ballot boxes, whereby each ballot is tabulated as it is cast by the voter; providing a plurality of ballot card counters, each operatively associated with one of said plurality of ballot boxes, to perform said step of counting each card as it is inserted in each of said ballot boxes; further including providing an indicator on each of said plurality of ballot card counters to verify that each of said ballot cards is tabulated as it is inserted in a ballot box.