Synchronous and Asynchronous Electronic Voting Terminal System and Network

A voting system of terminals connected to a network, comprising:

• a network for interconnecting input terminals;
• a plurality of input participant terminals, said terminals including data encryption of data of signals transmitted to and from the network;
• said terminals include participant verification capability to ascertain that the identity of the participant can be verified to a predetermined level of security;
• said terminals each configured to:
• expose through a user interface facilities by which a user can administer an activity to be engaged in by participants who belong to a group/crowd group of participants to enable the administrator to obtain a rank ordering of ideas that belong to a body of ideas, and
• implement the activity by exposing the ideas to the group/crowd group of participants, enabling the participants to provide indications of relative values of ideas that belong to the body of ideas, and
• process the indications of the relative values of ideas to infer the rank ordering,
• the ideas being exposed to the participants in successive rounds, each of at least some of the participants providing the indications with respect to fewer than all of the ideas in the setting each of the rounds, and
• update the body of ideas before each successive round to reduce the total number of ideas that are exposed to the participants in the successive round.

An asynchronous voting machine connected to a computer server, comprising:

• a plurality of linked voting terminals capable of receiving rating voting responses to a massive number of ideas flowing into the various terminals in an asynchronous manner as these ideas are being created by voters;
• the number of ideas being numbered 1 to N, N being the last idea, the voting machine performing the following tasks,
• a. said terminals receive voter input in the form of ideas;
• b. the server receives and stores said input of ideas and tallies the ideas until a predetermined minimum number of ideas have been entered into the terminals;
• c. the voting computer server electronically distributes at least said minimum number of ideas, divided into idea sets, to voters at a plurality of terminals,
• d. asynchronously, a next group of voters to access said terminals votes and/or submit more ideas,
• e. an idea set is distributed to each voter at a terminal until each of the minimum number of ideas has been equally distributed;
• f. when said minimum number of ideas are divided so that the number of ideas has a substantially equal and fair probability of being viewed and voted on by a generally equal number of voters;
• g. voters at terminal input rankings of the ideas from the idea set received;
• h. once a predetermined target set allocation is reached the rank votes are allowed to be tabulated by the sever;
• i. the voting computer server has a predetermined threshold win rate against which said voter ranking for each idea are compared;
• and
• j. the ideas which exceed said predetermined number as considered winning ideas and are segregated by the server in a first subgroup of ideas which exceed said predetermined number.