Patent ID: 7566006

Claim:
A marking system for recording a user's selection of one choice from a slate of one or more choices, comprising: a hand-markable physical pre-printed document adapted to receive at least one user-detectable mark indicating the user's selection of a choice from said slate of one or more choices, said document providing an indicia of and an associated marking space for each choice in said slate of choices; a document marking terminal having a user interface for presenting to the user a menu, including said slate of choices, and for receiving an input from the user indicating the selection of a choice from said slate of choices, said document marking terminal receiving said document and in response to said user input, printing said at least one user-detectable mark in said marking space corresponding to said selected choice; and a document scanning device for receiving said document and recording said at least one user-detectable mark in said marking space associated with said selected choice.