Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method that allows a central election office to maintain control over actions taken on voting devices located at various polling locations. In an exemplary embodiment, a poll worker or other user contacts the central election office with a request to perform an action on a voting device. An election management system located at the central election office executes a hashing algorithm to generate a first hash code associated with the action. The central election office communicates the first hash code to the polling location, and the poll worker or other user inputs the first hash code into the voting device. The voting device executes the same hashing algorithm to generate a second hash code associated with the action, and compares the second hash code to the first hash code to verify the validity of the first hash code.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method that allows a central election office to maintain control over actions taken on voting devices located at various polling locations. In an exemplary embodiment, a poll worker or other user contacts the central election office with a request to perform an action on a voting device. An election management system located at the central election office executes a hashing algorithm to generate a first hash code associated with the action. The central election office communicates the first hash code to the polling location, and the poll worker or other user inputs the first hash code into the voting device. The voting device executes the same hashing algorithm to generate a second hash code associated with the action, and compares the second hash code to the first hash code to verify the validity of the first hash code.

Abstract: In cooperation with a public telephone network, an automated call processing system incorporates an audio response unit and a computer for effectively relaying calls to a manually attended terminal. Individual calls are assigned unique call reference numbers which are stored along with pertinent information of the call. If a call relay is commanded, the computer actuates a PBX to establish a secondary connection through the telephone network to an attended CRT terminal. Using the secondary connection, the operator at the terminal is given the reference number which addresses the call data fetching it to the terminal for use by the operator. As a final operation, the secondary communication path is bridged placing the operator at the attended terminal in communication with a caller through the original connection established through the audio response unit.