Patent ID: 7490768

Claim:
A method for enabling coercion-free remote voting, comprising: a voter providing a secret code; generating a plurality of dummies in response to the secret code providing; showing the plurality of dummies and the secret code to the voter in a sequentially numbered list, each of the plurality of dummies and the secret code associated with a number each of the sequentially numbered list; providing a plurality of voting choices to the voter in a sequentially numbered list, each of the choices associated with a number each of the sequentially numbered list; the voter voting for one of a plurality of voting choices and selecting one of the shown plurality of dummies and the secret code; if the selecting comprises the voter selecting the secret code, entering the voter's vote into an election system; and if the selecting comprises the voter selecting one of the shown plurality of dummies: selecting another of the plurality of voting choices as a function of a difference between the list number associated with the voter's vote and the list number associated with the another voting choice, the difference equal to a difference between the list number associated with the secret code and the list number associated with the selected shown dummy, and entering the selected another voting choice as the voter's vote into the election system; or nullifying the voter's vote within the election system.