US 7,537,159 B2
	Electronic voting pad input device, system and method
Antonio Mugica, Boca Raton, Fla. (US); Roger A Pinate, Boca Raton, Fla. (US); Roberto E Zamorano, Caracas (Venezuela); Eduado M Correia, Caracas (Venezuela); and Edilmo D Palencia, Caracas (Venezuela)
Assigned to SmartMatic International Corporation, (Barbados)
Filed on Jul. 08, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/160,782.
Prior Publication US 2007/0007340 A1, Jan. 11, 2007
Int. Cl. G06K 17/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 235—386  [235/51; 235/56; 705/12]

20 Claims

1. An electronic data entry device for use by citizens during an election so as to facilitate the actual act of voting, comprising: having electoral options displayed, where choices made by a voter from such options will be detected in order to cast a vote; designed to either connect directly to a voting machine, or to connect to another identical device which precedes said data entry device in a group, the group comprised of a plurality of identical devices connected to said voting machine in a daisy chain fashion; each data entry device connected in said daisy chain having a unique set of electoral options displayed; and having the choices made by a voter, from a set at displayed electoral options, detected and recognized as electric impulses when any one of the pressure-sensitive fields of any one of said devices in a chain is pressed by said voter in order to cast a vote.