Computer methods and computer systems for voting

Abstract

In one embodiment, a mobile electronic device at least having a processor programmed to acquire an access instruction to allow a voter to access vote issues; and execute the following code: to provide, to the voter, information identifying vote issues; to enable the mobile electronic device to transmit at least one vote of the voter, where the enabling is based on: a first software instruction that instructs the mobile electronic device to present a first vote issue, a second software instruction that instructs the mobile electronic device to receive a first vote from the voter, where the voter submits the first vote by a first single action performed immediately after the presentation of the first vote issue and without any intervening action, a third software instruction that instructs the mobile electronic device of the voter to transmit the received first vote from the voter to the computer system.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer-implemented method, comprising:
 transmitting, by a mobile electronic device of a voter, at least one first access instruction received by a voter, wherein the at least one first access instruction has been acquired by the mobile electronic device of the voter from at least one first access document, wherein the at least one first access instruction is encoded in at least one of:
 i) at least one first QR code, and 
 ii) at least one first hypertext link; 
   wherein the voter has received the at least one first access instruction based, at least in part, on the voter's ownership and/or management of at least one share of a publicly traded company;   wherein the at least one first access instruction comprises at least one first control number associated with:
 i) the voter, and 
 ii) a corporate voting event of the publicly traded company; 
   transmitting, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, authentication information associated with the voter, wherein the authentication information comprises at least one first personal identifier of the voter and at least one first device identifier of the mobile electronic device of the voter;   after the voter has been authenticated based, at least in part, on the at least one first access instruction and the authentication information, receiving, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, based on the at least one first control number associated with the at least one first access instruction:
 i) corporate information identifying a plurality of corporate vote issues related to the corporate voting event of the publicly traded company whose shares are owned and/or managed by the voter, and 
 ii) at least a portion of at least one first corporate document related to the corporate voting event, wherein the at least one first corporate document is available for access by the voter; 
   individually presenting, based at least in part on the corporate information, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, on a screen of the mobile electronic device, to the voter, a first corporate issue from the plurality of corporate issues and at least one first option to access the at least one first corporate document, wherein the individually presenting of the first corporate issue is based, at least in part, on (1) a content of the first corporate issue and (2) at least two of the following characteristics:
 a brand of the mobile electronic device of the voter, 
 a model of the mobile electronic device of the voter, and 
 a geographic location of the voter; 
   receiving, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, from the voter, based on a first single action performed by the voter with the mobile electronic device, a first vote on the first corporate issue immediately after the individually presenting, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, on the screen of the mobile electronic device, the first corporate issue and the at least one first option to access the at least one first document;   automatically transmitting, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, the first vote to the computer system, wherein the computer system records the first vote;   individually presenting, based at least in part on the corporate information, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, automatically after the mobile electronic device of the voter receives the first vote on the first corporate issue from the voter, on the screen of the mobile electronic device, to the voter, a second corporate issue from the plurality of corporate issues, wherein the individually presenting of the second corporate issue is based, at least in part, on (1) a content of the second corporate issue and (2) at least two of the following characteristics:
 the brand of the mobile electronic device of the voter, 
 the model of the mobile electronic device of the voter, and 
 the geographic location of the voter; 
   receiving, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, from the voter, based on a second single action performed by the voter with the mobile electronic device, a second vote on the second corporate issue immediately after the individually presenting, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, on the screen of the electronic device of the voter, the second corporate issue;   automatically transmitting, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, the second vote to the computer system, wherein the computer system records the second vote,   wherein the first vote is transmitted by the mobile electronic device of the voter to the computer system before the second vote is transmitted by the electronic device of the voter to the computer system so as to result in:
 i) separate voting, by the voter, on each corporate issue from the plurality of corporate issues, and 
 ii) separate recordation, by the computer system, of the first vote and the second vote; and 
   allowing the voter, utilizing the mobile electronic device of the voter, to independently change at least one of the first vote and the second vote so as to result in the computer system recording for a tabulation at least one change in at least one of the first vote and the second vote.   
     
     
         2 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein the transmitting, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, the at least one first access instruction is based at least in part on a third single action performed by the voter with the mobile electronic device. 
     
     
         3 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 2 , wherein the third single action is:
 tapping by the voter on a button of the mobile electronic device so as to cause the mobile electronic device to acquire the at least one first access instruction.   
     
     
         4 . A mobile electronic device of a voter, comprising:
 at least one processor programmed to execute particular program code associated with a specialized computer system, wherein the mobile electronic device and the specialized computer system are connected through a computer data network and wherein the particular program code is configured to allow the mobile electronic device to communicate with the specialized computer system in a specialized manner to at least perform the following operations:   transmitting, by a mobile electronic device of a voter, at least one first access instruction received by a voter, wherein the at least one first access instruction has been acquired by the mobile electronic device of the voter from at least one first access document, wherein the at least one first access instruction is encoded in at least one of:
 i) at least one first QR code, and 
 ii) at least one first hypertext link; 
   wherein the voter has received the at least one first access instruction based, at least in part, on the voter's ownership and/or management of at least one share of a publicly traded company;   wherein the at least one first access instruction comprises at least one first control number associated with:
 i) the voter, and 
 ii) a corporate voting event of the publicly traded company; 
   transmitting, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, authentication information associated with the voter, wherein the authentication information comprises at least one first personal identifier of the voter and at least one first device identifier of the mobile electronic device of the voter;   after the voter has been authenticated based, at least in part, on the at least one first access instruction and the authentication information, receiving, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, based on the at least one first control number associated with the at least one first access instruction:
 i) corporate information identifying a plurality of corporate issues related to the corporate voting event of the publicly traded company whose shares are owned and/or managed by the voter, and 
 ii) at least a portion of at least one first corporate document related to the corporate voting event, wherein the at least one first corporate document is available for access by the voter; 
   individually presenting, based at least in part on the corporate information, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, on a screen of the mobile electronic device, to the voter, a first corporate issue from the plurality of corporate issues and at least one first option to access the at least one first corporate document, wherein the individually presenting of the first corporate issue is based, at least in part, on (1) a content of the first corporate issue and (2) at least two of the following characteristics:
 a brand of the mobile electronic device of the voter, 
 a model of the mobile electronic device of the voter, and 
 a geographic location of the voter; 
   receiving, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, from the voter, based on a first single action performed by the voter with the mobile electronic device, a first vote on the first corporate issue immediately after the individually presenting, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, on the screen of the mobile electronic device, the first corporate issue and the at least one first option to access the at least one first document;   automatically transmitting, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, the first vote to the computer system, wherein the computer system records the first vote;   individually presenting, based at least in part on the corporate information, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, automatically after the mobile electronic device of the voter receives the first vote on the first corporate issue from the voter, on the screen of the mobile electronic device, to the voter, a second corporate issue from the plurality of corporate issues, wherein the individually presenting of the second corporate issue is based, at least in part, on (1) a content of the second corporate issue and (2) at least two of the following characteristics:
 the brand of the mobile electronic device of the voter, 
 the model of the mobile electronic device of the voter, and 
 the geographic location of the voter; 
   receiving, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, from the voter, based on a second single action performed by the voter with the mobile electronic device, a second vote on the second corporate issue immediately after the individually presenting, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, on the screen of the electronic device of the voter, the second corporate issue;   automatically transmitting, by the mobile electronic device of the voter, the second vote to the computer system, wherein the computer system records the second vote,   wherein the first vote is transmitted by the mobile electronic device of the voter to the computer system before the second vote is transmitted by the electronic device of the voter to the computer system so as to result in:
 i) separate voting, by the voter, on each corporate issue from the plurality of corporate issues, and 
 ii) separate recordation, by the computer system, of the first vote and the second vote; and 
   allowing the voter, utilizing the mobile electronic device of the voter, to independently change at least one of the first vote and the second vote so as to result in the computer system recording for a tabulation at least one change in at least one of the first vote and the second vote.   
     
     
         5 . The mobile electronic device  claim 4 , wherein the operation of transmitting the at least one first access instruction is based at least in part on a third single action performed by the voter with the mobile electronic device. 
     
     
         6 . The mobile electronic device  claim 5 , wherein the third single action comprises is:
 tapping by the voter on a button of the mobile electronic device so as to cause the mobile electronic device to acquire the at least one first access instruction.