Apparatus and methods relating to voting systems and the like

Abstract

A digital pen having a body, a sensor to provide an electronic representation of the pen's position on a writing surface, a memory to store data gathered by the sensor and a memory lock whereby unauthorised access to the data may be restricted.

Description

technical field [0001] This application generally relates to the field of conventional voting devices, methods and programs, and particularly but not limited to, digital paper-and-pencil technology applied to this field and fields similar to voting that require filling / filling forms. Background technique [0002] The implementation of a successful and fair democracy depends on providing and implementing a large-scale and measurable voting process. Historically—and even today—many ballots have been administered using only a simple paper-based ballot counting system that determines elections by counting the total number of ballots after duly marked ballot paper is secretly dropped into a ballot box the elected candidates. Generally speaking, when the election is large enough, a large number of polling stations are required for voters to gather ballot papers and vote by the above method, or, in recent years, this democratic voting can also be carried out by post office or prox...

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Problems solved by technology

[0003] However, this simple system also has some disadvantages, mainly that it takes time, labor and organization to manually count the votes of different candidates / parties

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