Posted on 11/11/2020 3:43:12 PM PST by TigerClaws
System, method and computer program for vote tabulation with an electronic audit trail Patent number: 9870666 Abstract: A system, method and computer program for tabulating votes and creating an audit trail is provided. A ballot processing device may include a paper feed mechanism, a computer, a ballot processing application loaded on the computer, and a digital scanning device linked to the computer. The ballot processing application may process the digital image to establish a series of processing results definning one or more voting results for the paper ballot, and also an audit trail. The ballot processing application may process the digital image to define the voting results based on criteria established by election officials, including ambiguous mark criteria. The audit trail enables election officials to verify that particular paper ballots have been processed correctly in accordance with these criteria. Type: Grant Filed: May 3, 2012 Date of Patent: January 16, 2018 Assignee: Dominion Voting Systems, Inc.
Dominion? LOL
What exactly are they asking for a patent for? How to store the ADMIN password in clear text? Or maybe how to make an audit log fully editable and replaceable?
Pretty sure nobody ever thought to patent those techniques!
Nice post, thanks.
666 huh? Sometimes I read too much in to things.
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