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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2008
Steve Bolton, Clearwater, FL (US);
Herman Deutsch, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
James E. Schmidt, Omaha, NE (US);
Steve Bolton, Clearwater, FL (US);
Timothy J. Cordes, La Vista, NE (US);
Herman Deutsch, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Election Systems & Software, LLC, Omaha, NE (US);
Abstract
An integrated voting system and method for accommodating paper ballots and audio ballots. The voting system includes a voting device operable to scan a paper ballot with one or more marked voting selections and tabulate the marked voting selections. The voting system also includes an accessible voting station in communication with the voting device. The accessible voting station comprises a voting console operable present an audio ballot to a voter via headphones, and receive one or more voting selections entered in response to the audio ballot from the voter. A printer is also provided to print a printed ballot that includes the entered voting selections. The voting device is operable to tabulate the printed voting selections by scanning the printed ballot or receiving voting selection information extracted from the printed ballot from the accessible voting station.