Patent ID: 8353453

Claim:
A method for electronic voting performed in response to insertion of an electronic ballot by a voter into an electronic voting machine, the method comprising: issuing an electronic ballot by a ballot dispenser in response to a ballot issuance request of a voter, the electronic ballot being printed with a barcode corresponding to vote information containing at least one of data for authentication, precinct identification (ID) and polling place ID; printing, by the electronic voting machine, an anti-forgery mark on the electronic ballot when the electronic ballot is inserted into the electronic voting machine; scanning, by the electronic voting machine, the anti-forgery mark printed on the electronic ballot and verifying whether the electronic ballot is forged; displaying, by the electronic voting machine, a list of candidates from the candidate database; and printing, by the electronic voting machine, vote data related to a selected candidate on the electronic ballot, followed by dispensing the printed electronic ballot, when the voter selects the candidate whom the voter wishes to vote from among the list of candidates, wherein if the electronic ballot comprises a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag and an antenna, the issuance of the electronic ballot comprises recording log information generated in the course of the electronic ballot issuance in the RFID tag, and printing out a barcode on the electronic ballot recorded with the log information by the ballot dispenser.