Patent Document ID: 10019862
Application ID: 15361439
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An enhanced security ballot image tabulator providing from a plurality of ballots to be tabulated an enhanced security ballot image record constituted by a plurality of enhanced security ballot image files each corresponding to another one of the plurality of ballots to be tabulated, comprising: a serial ballot feeder module adapted to serially feed at a feed rate each ballot of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated one after the other, each at a date and feed time that defines each said ballot's unique time and date of feed, and each with another unique serial number that depends on each said ballot's respective position in the sequence of said serially fed ballots of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated; a ballot image module operatively coupled to said serial ballot feeder adapted to serially receive each ballot of the plurality of ballots to be tabulated and to serially provide a plurality of ballot images thereof each corresponding to another ballot of said serially fed ballots, each at each said ballot's said unique time and date of feed and each with another said unique serial number; a ballot image analyzer module coupled to the ballot image module adapted to serially recognize whether or not the serially provided ballot images have races or matters having cast votes and to serially tabulate a plurality of cumulative running counts of the races or matters of the ballot images having recognized cast votes current with each said ballot image of said serially fed ballots of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated; a record compiler module coupled to said feeder, said image and said analyzer modules adapted to serially provide a plurality of enhanced security ballot image files, that respectively include, for each ballot of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated, each said ballot's corresponding ballot image, each said ballot's unique time and date of feed, each said ballot's unique serial number, and each said ballot's cumulative running votes cast tabulation, and to compile an enhanced security ballot image record that is constituted by said enhanced security ballot image files, each for another one of said serially fed ballots of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated, each at each said ballot's said unique time and date of feed and each with another said unique serial number; and a memory for storing said enhanced security ballot image record that is constituted by said enhanced security ballot image files, each for another one of said serially fed ballots of said plural of ballots to be tabulated.