Patent ID: 8201738

Claim:
An electronic voting system comprising in combination: a plurality of electronic voting subsystems including at least one server coupled to a plurality of computers and at least one electronic voting software packages; said electronic voting subsystems linked by a computer network, wherein at least one of said computers receives ballot selections as input from a voter; said electronic voting subsystem saving said ballot selections and generating a voting record identifier in response to, and associated with said, ballot selections, said voting record identifier and said associated ballot selections being electronically available; wherein said voting subsystem receives voter authentication information by sensing a physical characteristic of said voter at the time said ballot selections in an election are input, and wherein said voting subsystem compares said received voter authentication information with stored voter authentication information from a plurality of voters in said election; said voting subsystem generating a notification that authentication was successful when a match is not found; and said voting subsystem generating a notification that authentication failed when a match is found.