Abstract: One application of this invention is where, a cashier at a bank or business can use an optical barcode scanner to obtain and transmit a registered ID on any currency, transmit a verification request to a Registration Authority, and receive a reply to determine whether the RSID is genuine, under surveillance, or has been previously reported as being fraudulently reproduced (counterfeited). A computer system, is used to track unique identifiers of Items to reduce losses due to fraud. A unique identifier (RSID) is assigned to each Item. The RSID is used to authenticate the Item is valid for use. As counterfeit RSIDs are detected, they are added to a computer database, enabling comparison of an RSID to all of the already known and counterfeit Items RSID's. The RSID may further be used to identify the location of the Item.

Abstract: Any business, individuals, groups of people, or government that is Officially facilitating the voting process use sources of computer data and other data to create lists of every eligible Voter. The List of Eligible Voters contains the name and physical mailing address for each Voter. The Official host then arranges for printing of mailing envelopes containing specially designed ballots to the Voters. Each MASTER Ballot has two parts—a PRIMARY Ballot and at least one RECEIPT Ballot. For each MASTER Ballot, both the PRIMARY Ballot and RECEIPT Ballot(s) share an identical, unique group of symbols as a correlating identifier. The identifier (RSID) is randomly generated to be unique and rare, so as to make any ballot difficult to counterfeit. To maintain privacy, Voters exchange ballots before voting at least once within a voting region. Completed PRIMARY Ballots are mailed or otherwise delivered to Official host on or before the due date for verification, recording, tallying and publication.