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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2019
Election Systems & Software, Llc, Omaha, NE (US);
Herman Deutsch, Mundelein, IL (US);
ELECTION SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE, LLC, Omaha, NE (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for preserving the anonymity of a provisional ballot cast by a voter in an election whose eligibility to vote in the election is not yet determined comprises including a machine-readable identification marking representing an identification code associated with the voter on the paper card utilized by a voting device associating the identification code represented by the machine-readable identification marking with the contest choices stored in the results database. In this manner, upon a determination that the voter is either eligible or ineligible to vote in the election, the contest choices of the voter can be included in or excluded from, respectively, the results of the election by identifying the identification code associated with the voter and including or excluding, respectively, the contest choices associated with the identification code.