Modular accessible voting systems and methods
AssigneeClear Ballot Group, Inc.
InventorsLucas Gruner, Adam Meunier, Michael Papa, Savio Polini
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Abstract
A modular accessible voting system according to some embodiments includes: a tabulator having a top surface, a tabulator paper input, and a tabulator paper output; a ballot printer, the ballot printer being removably mechanically affixable to the top surface of the tabulator, the ballot printer having a printer paper output; and a hands-free ballot adapter, the ballot adapter being removably mechanically affixable between the tabulator and the ballot printer, such that when the ballot printer and the ballot adapter are affixed to the tabulator, the ballot adapter is operable to direct a printed ballot from the printer paper output to the tabulator paper input.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- obtaining a plurality of tabulators, each of the plurality of tabulators having a user interface capable of receiving voter selections;
- obtaining at least a first ballot printer, the first ballot printer being interchangeably affixable to any one of the plurality of tabulators;
- mechanically affixing the first ballot printer to a first one of the tabulators;
- operating the first ballot printer to print at least a first ballot according to voter selections received at the first tabulator;
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- operating at least a second one of the tabulators to tabulate at least a second ballot, the second tabulator not being affixed to any ballot printer.
A system comprising:
- a tabulator having a top surface, a tabulator paper input, and a tabulator paper output;
- a ballot printer, the ballot printer being removably mechanically affixable to the top surface of the tabulator, the ballot printer having a printer paper output;
- and
- a hands-free ballot adapter, the ballot adapter being removably mechanically affixable between the tabulator and the ballot printer, such that when the ballot printer and the ballot adapter are affixed to the tabulator, the ballot adapter is operable to direct a printed ballot from the printer paper output to the tabulator paper input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.