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Title: Quality monitored distributed voting system

Patent ·
OSTI ID:458585

A quality monitoring system can detect certain system faults and fraud attempts in a distributed voting system. The system uses decoy voters to cast predetermined check ballots. Absent check ballots can indicate system faults. Altered check ballots can indicate attempts at counterfeiting votes. The system can also cast check ballots at predetermined times to provide another check on the distributed voting system. 6 figs.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Assignee:
Sandia Corp., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Patent Number(s):
US 5,612,871/A/
Application Number:
PAN: 8-289,861
OSTI ID:
458585
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 18 Mar 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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