US 12,354,413 B2
Method and device for absentee voting
Abdelhakim Djoudi, Montpellier (FR)
Appl. No. 18/548,441
Filed by Abdelhakim Djoudi, Montpellier (FR)
PCT Filed Mar. 7, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/055774
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 1, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/184944, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 9, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2102167 (FR), filed on Mar. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0144765 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. G07C 13/00 (2006.01); B42D 15/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC G07C 13/00 (2013.01) [B42D 15/00 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A postal voting method, that includes:
connecting a user terminal to a first server;
authenticating an user of the user terminal by the first server, and associating a single user's voting number with the user;
storing, by a second server, the user's voting number;
a user voting,
verifying that it is the first vote by the user;
if this is the first user's vote:
transmitting, by the second server to the user terminal, a physical ballot validation code,
registering, by the user terminal in an electronic label, information representative of the physical ballot validation code, and
transmitting, by the second server to a counting of votes system, a physical ballot validation element, the counting of votes system being distinct from the second server;
by the counting of votes system, for each physical voting ballot associated with an electronic label, reading the information representative of the validation code in said electronic label; and
verifying correspondence between the information representative of the validation code read and the validation element received by the counting system and, only if this verification is positive, taking account of the ballot associated with said electronic label.