Automated Voting System Using Physical Pathway Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional voting systems face challenges such as low voter participation due to logistical burdens, high costs, and security concerns, while also compromising voter privacy and efficiency in vote tracking and correction.
Innovation Solution
An automated decision-capturing and tracking system that uses physical pathways for individuals to select options, with signal detectors and a computing system to record and count choices, ensuring privacy and security through decentralized ledgers and unique identification, allowing real-time tracking and auditing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If paper ballots and physical polling places are used, then voter privacy is protected and vote security is maintained, but voter participation decreases due to logistical burdens and time requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical paper ballot system with an automated electronic decision-capturing system using detectors, processors, and displays. Voters interact through physical pathways detected by sensors, eliminating the need for physical paper handling while maintaining secure vote recording through automated electronic counting and tracking.
2Device complexity
If manual vote counting and tracking procedures are used, then system complexity is minimized, but productivity decreases due to time-consuming processes and potential for error
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service voting where voters independently navigate physical pathways that are automatically detected and recorded by the system. The automated detectors and processors handle vote capturing, counting, and tracking without manual intervention, enabling the system to serve itself in recording and tallying decisions while maintaining simplicity in voter interaction.
3Loss of substance
If traditional voting procedures are used, then cost is minimized through simple materials, but loss of time increases due to long lines and inefficient procedures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent substitutes mechanical paper ballot procedures with an automated electronic system that rapidly captures and processes votes. The electronic detectors and processors eliminate time-consuming manual counting and reduce waiting times, while the system's automated operation reduces long-term costs despite higher initial technology investment.
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AI summary
Described is implementing a decision capturing and tracking process, which may be used for any type of decision capturing process, such as a voting process or other process that captures and subsequently counts decisions made by individuals. Provided is a streamlined, convenient, and secure method for implementing a voting system that overcomes many of the challenges present in existing systems, while significantly improving the functionality of computer systems by reducing complexity, storage and processing requirements. This is achieved by using the position of an individual's body as the mechanism for capturing the individual's decision, which allows for an improved process. A system is provided that automatically captures a plurality of an individual's decisions as the individual continuously travels (e.g., walks, rolls, rides, drives) along a path and makes choices along the way. The captured decisions may then be used for counting, tracking, auditing, smart contracts, tokens, currencies, or other uses.