SE455652B - Voting security system - Google Patents

Abstract

The voter identity is established partly from an identity card readable automatically using optical, mechanical or electro-magnetic means, and partly from a personal code series with numbers and/or letters which the voter feeds via a keyboard to the vote or opinion recording appts. After this authentification of identity, the voter can feed in his or her vote or responses to given questions. Before the vote or responses are recorded, the voter identity is compared with the electoral roll. Then, automatically, the voter identity is removed from the electoral rall, to prevent anyone voting twice. (Provisional Basic advised week 85/06)

Description

455 652 2 Description of the invention The greatest difficulty in choosing a person is to ensure that the voter's red and that this_red is exercised by the red person and that the right is exercised only once at each occasion.

Access to the so-called fasting problem in political contexts is one of the problems that is easily solved with the present invention.

Today there are credit cards. There are also debit cards for money at several banking systems. Characteristic of these cards is a magnetic tape strip, which contains the date of the person who has access to the card. However, since cards can be stolen, the card as such is not sufficient as identification for the person using the card. It is ensured with a series of codes, which the cardholder is assumed to have in memory or in another protected way. The identification process thus involves both a magnetic identification, which is passive, and an active activity where the credit card holder himself may manually prove that he is the owner of a credit card, which has been introduced v Q, in I 1 any recording device.

Today, magnetic tape is a carrier of information about the holder. Optically readable identification data or even mechanically may be considered as well as data taken from fingerprints, photos or the like. A cornerstone of the invented system is a card, where data about the voting polling person can be collected. These data must be compared with a voting list to determine access to the opinion poll.

Another cornerstone of the invention is the active personal proof that the voter is the one using the voting card.

This requires that the voter identifies himself / herself using known methods, such as a keypad.

The invention can thus be partly exemplified by, for example, a bank chain's payment. You insert your card. The card is compared with an account list. You are given the task of entering your code. If it is hit correctly, a payment of whole hundred notes is made. Then you get a note with account balance after withdrawal. If you enter the wrong code three times, the card is destroyed. The chain is nationwide and the same card gives results in both Ystad and Haparanda.

The method according to the invention is now distinguished by the fact that there are nationwide chains with a continuous data connection with a centrally located computer. Already today, this works with the payment of, for example, hundred notes.

If the opinion seeker has rented a number from this nationwide chain, for example 97 during week 26, the computer can by simple known means steer the cardholder away from, for example, a bank account to an opinion-registering parallel computer in another part of the chain's data memory. or the voter uses his or her usual bank card _ and enters 97 in the steal for a number evenly divisible by 100. The computer notices this and knows that 97 means lock for opinion registration. The magnetic tape has told the computer who should stand with the card. The "enter your code" prompt requires personal identification. Only during week 26 is the number 97 linked to a certain opinion poll, for example election of chairman of an association or municipal issue of liquor distribution on "Krogen lyran" The number 97 may be used the following week for someone Anyone who wants and has access to the chain's card can cast their vote for a week Those who do not want can abstain.

If it is a question of an association, then only eligible people may vote.

The opinion memorandum is assumed according to the invention to contain a voting list. The identity of the voter is determined as now automatically and the identity is compared with the voting list. If the voter is present at length, a "data gate" is opened so that he can cast a vote or opinion.

'By press or other method, the voter has access to a number of alternatives, eg "Question no 1 choose between alternatives 1 - 6?' The voter can, for example, use the keypad and press the button for 3 if this alternative suits his or her opinion.

At the same time, many questions can be answered in succession.

A market analysis institute may want to provide compensation when an opinion has been added to the opinion-collected computer or device.

When all questions have been answered, a computer with simple known means can be programmed to print a payment card or to add a pre-agreed amount to the voter's account.

Opinion may not, however, be added to the opinion poll by the same person more than once. Thus, according to the invention, the voting length shall be provided with a gate that blocks multiple voting. These are known computerized procedures. 455 652 4 - A distinguishing feature of the invention is that today's personal identity number cannot be used alone for identification. On the other hand, the number can well be used in eg market research when the opinion seeker designates a certain vintage of people, all girls born within a certain time interval, pensioners over the age of 70 or some other sample whose social security number can constitute a separating green. The computer can then build up a voice length in the memory so that multiple access is prevented.

In politically conducted surveys, it is natural that publicly elected persons are given the task of checking that information is not registered in person and that only opinion polls are registered. Computer memories may even need to be destroyed under public supervision.

An embodiment of the sweetener according to the invention The invention is described using an Organiz fl fí fl ns fl ßrm fl l fl activity as an example. The members of the organization can today be assumed to be customers of a certain bank. If you are not a customer, you can get a customer card if you are interested in participating in elections.

The bank connects a voice memory to its standard account-holding computer.

In the association's member magazine or advertisement in the daily press, it is announced that in week 26, members of the organization may vote for the bank under no. 97. The questions are exemplified: Question 1 The chairman's no. 1, 2 or 3 of the proposal are followed; Question 2 The organization's policy should be the proposal's no l - 5. 0 s Q: Some of the alternatives can be "do not know" or "poorly prepared questionß The member goes to the bank inserts his usual card. Gets the question" what amount "and he then 97. Then he ends up in the peppi part of the bank chain's memory, he has to dial his code and is then identified.

He is asked, for example, "Task 1?" and then strikes with a keypad in fl its view eg a 3rd. The question 'Task 2?' o s v follows.

When all questions have been answered, the contact is broken in the usual way and the voter is prevented by computer closure of a gate from returning to the organisation's questions during week 26. In the memory of the banking chain, the voting power would then be questioned. However, there is nothing to prevent the voter from managing his or her bank account or voting for another organization's voting number during the same week that is different from the chosen arbitrary 97. 5 455 652 The bank computer's memory is assumed to be fed with one ballot paper before the vote. After that, a list of the number of alternative voters for each question is delivered in a known manner.

The same procedure can be used, for example, by a company that wants to know which of their soups tastes best. You can then tell the public through an advertisement that those who are born, for example week 12, can respond to a vote on a certain day, from 00 - 24. If the company has five soups to compare, the opinion leader can barely tell which one he chooses. The opinion seeker, on the other hand, can 90tt9ÖrO it rößt fl d fl for the effort with, for example, a money order of 50: "In A municipality can ask citizens if they want a new road to be drawn according to one of alternatives 1-5. Dö it is a civil right to vote. However, the citizens of the municipality are not bound to vote in their place of residence but can, for example, use a given bank chain's computer chain. _ Of course, in this way nationwide referendums can be conducted in a significantly cheaper way than is possible today.

The skewed representation in public contexts where there is an over-representation of public employees is also avoided. Likewise, the number of sober people and freelancers is overrepresented in, for example, the Riksdag, while manufacturers and engineers, technicians and doctors are underrepresented.

Industrial usability All industrial handling is due to the fact that goods can be sold. If they cannot be sold, it will not be industry. Information gathering is thus a basis for assessing production volumes, design, distribution, etc. The method according to the invention makes gathering information substantially faster and cheaper through parallel utilization of pre-connected data connections. The lower cost of collection can be used to increase the number of respondents with greater public opinion as a result. The invented method also has advantages in collecting opinion on societal and organizational issues.

The invention finally allows for real democracy in political matters.

Claims (1)

455 652 Patent claims In an opinion poll, the identity of the voter dies is determined from an identity card, which can be read automatically with known devices, and a personal code series with numbers and / or letters, which the voter with known devices e.g. fingerboard can supply devices of a known type for tabulating opinions and documenting the identity of voters characterized by being carried out with known devices with geographical coverage connected by the fact that the opinion poll for financial transactions such as bank payments or credit purchases, where the voter by ordering unintended or impossible transaction interferes with the intended function of the connected device, where the disturbance of known data sweetness means that one or more voting data devices are connected to the device for financial transactions, which voice recording devices after determining the identity of the voter and any correctly, registers the voter's dota - presented opinion. The method according to claim 1 is that after the voter has added his or her opinion on the questions asked to the polling station, the voter's right to vote again on current issues is blocked in the voting list, which is stored on known features in the voting treatment device or devices. Sweet according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the identity of the voter is computer-tabulated for future printing. A method according to claim 3, in which the registered identity of the voter is used for the possible payment of compensation for his vote.