Method for voting preparation and implementation by means of an automated operational information system

A method of voting preparation and implementation by means of an automated system comprising the following working steps:

• forming a territorially distributed voting network containing at least the following elements of said network:
• territorial sites allocated in the voting regions and providing at least:
• presentation for open acquaintance of the information on the forthcoming election;
• registration of voters;
• submitting to the voter a bulletin containing at least two selection variants and made on a suitable carrier with a possibility of making a mark in the selection field;
• calculation of the amount of the issued bulletins;
• reception of the bulletin filled by the voter;
• calculation of the amount of the accepted bulletins;
• calculation of the amount of the marks made with respect to a selection variant;
• generation of the return data containing information objects in a preset format;
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• a central control station, said elements being interconnected by means of suitable communication facilities, said sites being adapted at least for capture, reception, counting, registration, processing, saving and delivery of information in a preset format;
• development of automated operational information system for voting preparation and implementation including a network of territorially distributed elements of the automated system including complexes of soft/hardware means interconnected by suitable communication facilities and allowing one to perform the following operations in a mode of an authorized access in real time and/or in session time:
• reception of information containing information objects prepared by the voting network elements in a preset format, and input of information input in the element of the automated system;
• processing of said information with a possibility of imaging the information objects as a text and/or graphics and/or in a digital and/or tabulated form with a possibility of editing said image;
• previewing the displayed information objects, check their correspondence with the information prepared by the voting network element;
• entering additional data in the objects of said information, allowing one to identify said objects as objects relating to the voting and presented by said voting network element in a certain instant of time and to identify the element of the automated system providing input of said information objects into in said automated system;
• subsequent record and accumulation of said information objects with a possibility of data processing by the cumulative sum;
• transmission of said information objects to other system elements;
• display and visualization of the information objects;
• saving said information objects;
• identification of the user of the automated system at his call to the automated system element;
• And thus the system contains peripheral and central elements and:
• at least one of the central elements is a central control element of said system and is also adapted for monitoring the operation of the other elements of the automated system and the automated system contains:
• at least one system element adapted for connection with other external databases and made with a possibility of reception of a request from a system element, containing at least data on the information object requiring an explanation and/or additional information from the other databases, and an identifying index of a system element, creation of a request, its direction to the other databases, receptions of the answer and a direction of the answer to the system element which have sent request;
• at least one system element connected to one central element and to the database server of the system and used for:
• giving to the users an access to the information resources of the automated system on the Web-technology basis;
• on-line open access to the information on the course of voting and on the preliminary voting results being automatically processed in a real-time mode in the voting region by means of a suitable interface and displays at sites of the voting network and in the voting region as a whole;
• publication in the Internet network of the information on the course of voting and the total voting results within 24 hours after the voting is over;
• displaying the data on the course of voting and the final voting on large-size displays;
• installing in the complexes of soft/hardware means said general-purpose and dedicated soft/hardware devices allowing one to carry out on-line in an automatic mode monitoring of their state by testing, remote distribution, inventory and upgrade of the dedicated soft/hardware means providing reception, processing and transmission of data in the course of performance of regulated data exchange between elements of the system and with an environment, as well as adjustment of the elements of the system for solving the functional tasks of different complexity;
• providing the equipment of the voting network elements and the elements of the automated system with qualified personnel, and carrying out their training;
• providing the information transfer from the voting network elements to the automated system elements;
• forming a common database of the automated system while carrying out:
• reception, record, accumulation and saving of the information objects incoming in real time and/or in session time from the automated system elements;
• processing the received information objects with creation of address blocks including information objects relating to one type of voting and/or one element of automated system and/or to one of the voting network element and/or one direction of activity of the system elements and/or one user, and savings of the address blocks with a possibility of their recovery;
• processing the information on the address blocks with creation of final data blocks containing information with cumulative total and saving the final data blocks with a possibility of their recovery;
• processing the information contained in said data blocks, address blocks and final data blocks with creation of statistical data blocks by the parameters prescribed by normative legal acts and their saving with a possibility of their recovery;
• input in each of said information objects, address blocks, final data blocks, statistical data blocks an additional classification index allowing one to identify each of said objects and/or blocks in the database;
• generation of data blocks containing information stored in the common database according to the dispatch regulations provided for the users registered in the database;
• generation of open data blocks according to the prescribed list of information for the future open representation by means of visualization tools;
• generation of open data blocks according to the prescribed list of information for the future open representation on sites of Internet;
• saving the copies of the initial and corrected data blocks of the common database on a carrier acceptable for operation in the automated system not connected to a database;
• registration of the issue and movement of strict accountancy documents including voting bulletins;
• saving the general-purpose software packs installed in the elements of the automated system and the results of testing the state of the soft/hardware elements of the automated system during monitoring;
• saving the dedicated software packs installed in the elements of the automated system including initial packs and service packs,
• and providing operation of said automated system in an interactive mode for directory service of users of a common database and support of operation of elements of automated system and elements of a voting network and, thus in an automatic mode provide:
• support of the information stored in the common database in an actual state by means of correction and updating;
• reception of a user call in the common database and its saving;
• checking the presence an identification index in the call, determining the scope of the user's access rights, establishing the scope of access to the information in the common database,
• search of information in the common database, according to the call and the scope of rights given to the user,
• generation of a response block to response to the user call,
• providing the user with a generated response block in the browse mode according to scope of rights given to the user if the user call to the database contains an identification index corresponding to the identification index of this user stored in said common database;
• forming a voting bulletin containing at least information allowing one to identify the accessory of the bulletin to the voting bulletins including at least two selection variants from the amount of the registered selection variants and having at least two localized selection fields adapted for making a selection by introducing by the voter marking element in one of the selection field;
• making a voting bulletin on a carrier acceptable for voting;
• registration of voters;
• giving the voting bulletin to and taking it from the voter;
• counting the accepted bulletins and checking them for correspondence to the established requirements of recognizing the bulletin as valid;
• counting the votes concerning each selection variant;
• generating data on the course of voting and its results;
• forming summary data on the voting by performing the following steps:
• providing a possibility of data exchange between the voting network elements and the automated system elements;
• performing automatic protection of the automated system against unauthorized access;
• providing information security;
• giving to the users an access to the information resources of the automated system on the Web-technology basis;
• on-line open access to the information in the course of voting and on the preliminary voting results being automatically processed in a real-time mode in the voting region by means of a suitable interface and displays at sites of the voting network and in the voting region as a whole;
• publication in the Internet network of the information in the course of voting and the total voting results within 24 hours after the voting is over;
• displaying the data in the course of voting and the final voting on large-size displays