Electronic ballot facility

An electronic ballot facility, using ballot forms (1), at least one voting booth (4) for the use of voters to place ballot forms in envelopes, and at least one ballot box (2) that is suitable for receiving said envelopes along with the ballot forms;

• wherein each ballot form (1) is provided with at least one electronic chip (10), the electronic chip (10) including a first contactless reader memory (11) in which a ballot identification code is recorded, and a second permanent contactless read-write memory (12) provided to receive a selection of one of the voters;
• wherein on a side of the ballot (1), the ballot (1) has at least one of a name, a photograph, and a number of the candidate, at least one of the name and the number of the candidate being written into at least one of the first contactless reader memory (11) and the second permanent contactless read-write memory (12);
• wherein each of the at least one ballot box (2) is equipped with at least one reader (20) with at least one sensor that is capable of reading, without contact, when one of the ballot forms is inserted therein and through the envelopes, content of the first contactless reader memory (11) and the second permanent contactless read-write memory (12) of the electronic chip, the at least one reader (20) being connected to a self-contained microprocessor unit (21) that is built into the at least one ballot box (2), the self-contained microprocessor unit (21) being equipped with a local memory (22) in which the contents of the first contactless reader memory (11) and the second permanent contactless read-write memory (12) of the ballot forms (1) are recorded;
• wherein each voting booth (4) that the electronic ballot facility comprises is equipped with:
• a scanning interface (50) by which a voter of the voters selects the candidate, the scanning interface being connected to a central unit (51), distant and separate from the self-contained microprocessor unit (21) linked with the ballot box (2),
• a production unit (52) of the ballot form, from a blank ballot, connected to the central unit (51), capable of writing at least one of the name and the photograph of the candidate selected by the voter on one of the sides of the ballot form to be produced, and
• a contactless read-write unit (53) connected to the central unit (51) that is capable of writing the selection of the voter into the permanent contactless read-write memory (12) of the electronic chip (10) of the ballot form, the contactless read-write unit (53) being integrated into the production unit (52) of the ballot form.