Cloud-Based Voting and Registration With Barcode Identity Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
The current voting and voter registration processes are antiquated, leading to issues such as faulty machines, delayed polling times, and decreased voter confidence, particularly affecting young voters, and absentee ballots are constrained by identification requirements and limited drop boxes.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based voter registration and voting system, Vote Safe®, utilizing AI and ML for facial recognition and secure encryption, allowing users to register and vote via mobile or web applications, ensuring identity verification through barcode scanning and facial recognition, with optional audiovisual interfaces for additional validation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional voting machines and absentee ballots are used, then voters can cast their ballots, but the system suffers from faulty machines, delayed polling times, and decreased voter confidence
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical voting machines with a cloud-based digital voting system accessible through mobile devices and web browsers. This substitution eliminates hardware failures, touchscreen issues, and machine malfunctions that cause polling delays and reduce voter confidence.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a digital copy of the voting process that can be accessed remotely through electronic devices. Voters receive digital ballots and submit votes electronically, eliminating the need for physical voting machines and absentee ballot mailings, thereby reducing delays and increasing reliability.
2Productivity
If absentee ballots are mailed to all voters, then voter participation increases, but the process becomes costly and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud-based voting system enables voters to access and complete their ballots independently through mobile devices or web browsers at any time before the election deadline. This eliminates the need for election officials to manually mail, track, and process absentee ballots, dramatically reducing processing time and costs while maintaining high participation rates.
3Reliability
If strict identification requirements are imposed on absentee ballots, then election integrity is maintained, but voter access is restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary identity verification during the voter registration process by capturing and storing biometric data (facial recognition images, fingerprints, or iris scans). This preliminary action ensures election integrity is maintained while allowing voters to access ballots conveniently through the same biometric verification at voting time, eliminating restrictive identification requirements at the polling location.
4Ease of manufacture
If manual voter registration processes are used, then existing systems can be implemented, but registration efficiency is low and errors occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual voter registration processes with automated digital systems that capture identification documents through mobile device cameras, perform optical character recognition (OCR) to extract data, and verify information against existing databases. This automation dramatically increases registration efficiency and accuracy while maintaining ease of implementation through standardized software processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary layer of automated data processing and verification between the voter and the registration database. This intermediary performs OCR scanning of ID documents, cross-references information with existing voter rolls, and automatically completes registration, thereby increasing efficiency while keeping the implementation process straightforward through standardized interfaces.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances voter registration and participation by providing a secure, efficient, and accessible digital platform that verifies identities accurately, reduces wait times, and ensures ballot counting, thereby increasing voter confidence and engagement.
Implementation Method 1
The barcode is decoded at the server to extract one or more decoded user identification data elements encoded in the barcode
Implementation Method 2
An artificial intelligence (AI) platform implementing a machine learning (ML) model that is trained to distinguish one or more facial recognition attributes of an image to identify a person
Data Source
AI summary
A system, method, apparatus, and computer program product voting and voter registration systems. A mobile and a web application will allow the voter to cast their ballot in any local, state, or federal election via the secured and encrypted cloud-based application and when applicable, register to vote. The apparatus for the voter registration will take place in the secured and encrypted cloud-based infrastructure application. The mobile and web application may require the voter to use additional tools to verify the voter's identification prior to receiving a ballot or registration request.