Abstract: The invention relates to information computer engineering and is embodied in the form of a method for preparing and running a vote process with the aid of an automated system comprising a territorially distributed voting network consisting of territorial stations, a central control station and an automated operation and information system comprising a system element network consisting of software-hardware means systems which are interconnected with the aid of acceptable communications means and make it possible, in an access mode and in a real time scale and/or during a session, to receive information from the voting network elements, to process said information in such a way that the data objects are represented in a textual and/or graphical and/or digital and/or matrix format, to input identification data items about the voting network and system element into the data objects, to record, collect, store, transmit, statistically process, display and visualise the data objects and to form an integrated databas