Patent ID: 8660889

Claim:
A method for changing a ballot, which comprises: providing a computer database for storing a plurality of voter records, each of said voter records including voter information of a given voter, biometric information of the given voter, voter specific information of the given voter, and a ballot record containing a completed ballot of the voter; providing a ballot database further including a plurality of different blank ballots; each of said plurality of voter records being related to one of said plurality of different blank ballots; connecting a supervisor-of-elections computer terminal to said computer database; inputting voter information of a voter in said supervisor-of-elections computer terminal; transmitting said voter information to said computer database; selecting a voter record from said plurality of voter records by matching said voter information of the voter with voter information a voter record in said computer database; transmitting a blank voter ballot related to said voter record to a voting computer terminal; inputting biometric information of the voter into said voting computer terminal; generating biometric data from said biometric information; casting a vote on said voter ballot by using said voting computer terminal to generate a completed replacement ballot; transmitting said completed replacement ballot from said voting computer terminal to said computer database; transmitting said biometric data from said voting computer terminal to said computer database; providing write access in said computer database to said ballot record of said voter record of the voter when said biometric data transmitted from said voting computer terminal matches biometric data stored in said voter record of the voter; and writing said completed replacement ballot in said ballot record of said voter record of the voter.