EP0419335B1 - Procédé nouveau de vote et moyens pour sa mise en oeuvre - Google Patents

Procédé nouveau de vote et moyens pour sa mise en oeuvre Download PDF

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EP0419335B1
EP0419335B1 EP90402554A EP90402554A EP0419335B1 EP 0419335 B1 EP0419335 B1 EP 0419335B1 EP 90402554 A EP90402554 A EP 90402554A EP 90402554 A EP90402554 A EP 90402554A EP 0419335 B1 EP0419335 B1 EP 0419335B1
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Michel Feterman
Alain Marchadier
Fabrice Terray
Jean-Claude Kourganoff
Vincent Joly
Dominique Bouyol
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  • the present invention relates to a new method of voting and relates to the means allowing the implementation of this new method.
  • US Pat. No. 4,373,134 describes a method using a voting card of the chip card or microprocessor card type and contains identification data and areas for storing voting rights, or voting zones, likely to be activated, to be identified and to allow the validation of a vote and the neutralization of the zone concerned.
  • the card used contains voter identification data and is personal to each voter.
  • the present invention makes it possible to satisfy all the requirements described above which a democratic vote implies and, moreover, to obviate the drawbacks of the systems used until now while having the advantage of not confusing the voter. accustomed to a certain course of the electoral mode on the one hand, and on the other hand to allow counting operations and their verification in conditions of reliability and secrecy that these operations require.
  • the subject of the present invention is a voting card containing one or more areas for storing identification data and one or more areas for storing voting rights, or voting areas, enabling the validation of a vote and the neutralization of the area concerned, characterized in that it is of the chip card, or microprocessor card, or laser reading card type, in that it is not personal, in that it is capable of receiving during a phase of initialization of the identification data of a polling station in the said identification data storage area (s), and in that the said voting area (s) may be activated randomly and to be identified.
  • the voting card after the reading and neutralization phase is brought back to the initialization phase to be reused for a new voter.
  • the random choice of the storage area for the vote (s) is made during an activation phase.
  • the activation phase is carried out during the initialization phase.
  • the activation phase is carried out during the validation of the choice made by the voter.
  • the phase of choice of the candidate, and validation of the choice made by selector are carried out by the voter in a voting booth, his choice being validated in one or more zones (s ) of storage, the data or data (s) thus validated being capable of being read (s) by an electronic ballot box and recorded (s) at the same time as the said storage area (s) is / are neutralized.
  • the activated storage area (s) can only be located and / or read over the transition time between the validation phase and the reading phase by the urn.
  • the voting card can be subjected to a verification count allowing a verification of the results of the ballot by comparison between the results of the electronic ballot box and those of the various cards used in the vote place.
  • the voting booths can be subjected to a verification count allowing a verification of the results of the ballot by comparison between the results of the electronic ballot box and those accumulated from the different voting booths used in the polling station
  • the electronic ballot boxes keep their data for the duration of the vote and their content is not transmitted to the central unit until the close of the vote.
  • the present invention also further relates also to an installation for implementing the voting method according to any one of claims 2 to 11, comprising voting booth units (2) to allow a voter to choose a or of the candidate (s), to validate this choice by recording this choice on a voting card, at least one electronic ballot box (3) for reading this choice on said voting card and recording this choice, characterized in what it includes initialization and / or activation units (1) capable of storing on a voting card identification data of the polling station as well as of the vote (s) concerned, and / or activating randomly at least one voting area of said card, in that said voting booth units (2) are able to introduce into each of said activated areas specific data of the candidate (s) chosen for each vote, and in that the initialization and / or act units ivation (1) and said electronic ballot boxes (3) are controlled by a central unit (5) and connected to a monitor (6).
  • the central unit controls all of the units connected to the monitor, as well as the destination of the dialogue, for example by switching, to a Minitel.
  • the validation units are microprocessor card readers / writers having memories of the non-volatile type, electrically erasable (EEPROM).
  • EEPROM electrically erasable
  • the voting booth units are independent of the rest of the installation and also include non-volatile memories (EEPROM).
  • EEPROM non-volatile memories
  • the voting booth units are electronic urns directly connected to the central unit.
  • the various constituent elements of the installation can be powered by rechargeable batteries.
  • FIG. 1 represents a configuration or architecture suitable for the mode of implementation satisfying the requirements of French legislation as regards voting.
  • This configuration comprises, in the embodiment shown, three validation and / or initialization units 1, three voting booth units 2 and two voting or concentration units 3, consisting of electronic ballot boxes.
  • the validation and / or initialization units 1 and the voting units or ballot boxes 3 are connected via an electronic switch 4 to a central unit 5, which controls them on the one hand and to a monitor 6, preferably Minitel type.
  • FIG. 2 represents a configuration where the voting booth units 2 function as ballot boxes and are connected to the central unit which controls them as well as the validation and / or initialization units.
  • FIG. 3 represents a configuration similar to that of FIG. 1 but where the isolator units 2 are temporarily connectable to the network.
  • the initialization and / or validation units 1 and the voting or concentration units, or electronic ballot boxes 3, consist of readers / writers of smart cards or microprocessor cards containing a non-volatile type memory (EEPROM) .
  • EEPROM non-volatile type memory
  • the voting booth units 2 consist of readers / writers of smart cards or microprocessor cards containing a non-volatile type memory and allowing the recording of data corresponding to the choice made on the unit.
  • the voter goes to the polling station to which he is attached and presents his voter card to an auditor.
  • the latter verifies the identity of the voter and checks the list of voters at the polling station to determine if this voter is actually registered on the lists of this polling station.
  • the voter is given a smart card or microprocessor card.
  • the verifier beforehand validates this card in a validation unit (zone 1; figure 1) which introduces in memory an identifier code of the polling station and / or the vote on the one hand, and on the other hand, active with a hazard a voting area, which gives the voter the right to vote.
  • This validation unit can be a reader / writer of microprocessor cards of the "Pushmatic" type having a memory of the non-volatile, electrically erasable type (EEPROM).
  • EEPROM electrically erasable type
  • the voter then goes to the voting booth (zone 2; Figure 1) where voting booth units are located, operating on rechargeable batteries and comprising non-volatile memories.
  • the voter introduces the smart card into an ad hoc area of the voting booth unit, for example a slot.
  • the voting booth unit checks whether the identifier code of the polling station and / or the identifier code of the vote corresponding to the polling station and / or the vote concerned respectively and checks whether the right to vote has not been exhausted. If this verification proves favorable, the elector is informed that he can vote.
  • the voting booth unit has a voting area for each candidate and a push button next to each of these areas. A voting area and a push button for white voting are also provided. The voter makes his choice and presses the corresponding push button.
  • the voter changes his mind and wishes to change the candidate, he can either cancel his first vote by action on an ad hoc press button, or any simply by pressing another button.
  • the voter "confirms” his vote by actuating means of confirmation.
  • the activated zone of the smart card then receives information corresponding to the vote at the same time as the activated zone is canceled.
  • the voter then collects his smart card.
  • the voter having recovered his card containing the information of the vote (s) made then goes to the ballot box where the President of the Polling Station again verifies the identity of the voter and if he is entitled to vote with from this office.
  • an electronic ballot box zone 3; Figure 1; this is identical to the validation units.
  • the smart card is then introduced by the voter into the ballot box and his vote recorded in the ballot box at the same time as the voting area is neutralized.
  • the information corresponding to the vote taken remains in memory, however.
  • the ballot boxes keep their data for the duration of the poll. The data are not sent to the central unit until the close of the election, so that there is no flow of information on the network during the course of the election.
  • the card When the voting is finished, the card is collected by the President of the Polling Station who hands it to the aforementioned verifier. This card can then be reused by the verifier. It is indeed a recyclable and reusable card that the verifier resets and reactivates for a new voter. The zone (s) previously activated having been transformed into a voting zone and then into a neutralized zone and having lost the voting power cannot be reactivated at this stage.
  • a so-called “minute card” or “collection card” can be provided for the purpose of allowing the storage of all the data contained in the voting booths, in the case where the booths have been programmed to keep and total the votes dedicated.
  • This card allows the conservation and compact archiving of the voting data of each voting booth unit and even of all the booth units of the same polling station for a given poll.
  • the President of the Polling Station has a special card which, after interconnection of the various devices, allows the configuration or architecture of the system for a new vote and in particular the introduction of specific validation and activation data.
  • the system "monitor” is constituted in France by the Minitel which includes a particularly economical keyboard, screen and modem. For each of the operations carried out by the President of the Polling Station, there is a specific menu displayed by the Minitel which guides the operator.
  • Example 2 It is similar to that of Example 1, but the activation with a hazard of one or more storage areas instead of being done during the validation phase, occurs when the voter "confirms" "his vote in the voting booth unit.
  • Example 2 It is similar to that of Example 1, but the card initialization phase, during which the identification data of the polling station and of the poll concerned is entered in the appropriate zones of the cards, only takes place 'once for each card; the verifier would no longer need, as in Example 1, to reset a card for each new voter.
  • Example 1 We operate according to the method of Example 1, but the voting booth functions directly as an electronic ballot box and directly records the vote that the voter validates.
  • the method described in one of the previous examples would make it possible to vote anywhere in the territory in the case of a national vote and not be limited to voting at a specific polling station. This is important to reduce the number of abstainers (such as those called Sunday fishermen, in France) or to avoid postal or proxy votes and the abuses they can cause.
  • the voter presents his voter card at any polling station.
  • the verifier verifies the identity of the card holder and, thanks to Minitel, accesses the list voters from the voter's home polling station; the verifier checks whether the voter is actually registered on this list, and whether he has already voted. If he has not yet voted, the elector is authorized to vote, and at the same time, the mention of the use of the right to vote is entered on the list of the office of attachment.
  • this operating mode requires the interconnection of all the polling stations with each other through a server center separate from the central unit. It is necessary for the central unit of each polling station to be able to connect to this server center, which checks whether the voter has not already used his right to vote. The mention of the use of the right to vote for the election concerned is recorded by the polling station on which the voter depends to avoid that the voter cannot go to one or more polling stations and renew his vote.
  • Example 5 The procedure of Example 5 can be implemented in the case of a vote other than national.
  • the central unit of each polling station is connected to the voting booth units so as to transfer there the list of candidates from the office of attachment of the voter.
  • the latter then makes his choice and validation according to the aforementioned procedures, indicated in example 1.
  • the ballot box not only records the vote but also the identification data of the office of attachment.

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