In 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
assessed Patent RE40,449, titled "Auto-Verifying Voting System
and Voting Method."
An exemplary claim is below:
A method for voting providing for
self-verification of a ballot comprising the steps of:
(a) voting by a voter using a
computer voting station programmed to present an election
ballot,
accept input of votes from the
voter according to the election ballot,
temporarily store the votes of
the voter;
(b) printing of the votes of the
voter from the votes temporarily stored in the computer for the
voting station;
(c) comparison by the voter of
the printed votes with the votes temporarily stored in the computer
for the voting station;
