Patent ID: 7694880

Claim:
An anonymous electronic voting system comprising: voter terminals for receiving a list of combinations of candidate names and encrypted candidate names, to transmit an encrypted candidate name of a selected candidate via a network; at least one encryption server for receiving and re-encrypting said encrypted candidate name of the selected candidate to create encrypted voting data, and returning said encrypted voting data to said voter terminal having transmitted said encrypted candidate name of the selected candidate; a voting server for receiving said encrypted voting data from said voter terminal to create a list of effective encrypted voting data from among said received encrypted voting data, and transmitting said created list of said effective encrypted voting data via said network; and a decryption server for decrypting said list of said effective encrypted voting data received from said voting server, to create and transmit via said network a list of plaintext candidate names rearranged from said list of said effective encrypted voting data, wherein said voting server receives said list of said plaintext candidate names from said decryption server, to tally vote results based on said list of said received candidate names.