sorting machine 106 verifies the authentication of the inserted ballot paper 102 by screening the electronic content previously encoded and initiates a vote sorting and counting process accordingly fig2 sets out full details of the ballot paper as represented in a voting system arrangement in accordance with embodiments of the present invention the design layout of the ballot paper 200 is similar to a classic ballot paper it provides a voter with clear printed instructions for facilitating the choice of candidates in a valid manner as well as symbols or and candidate pictures and essential information that printed ballot papers should contain the difference resides in the inclusion of two electronic devices represented by a basic passive rfid tag 202 and a burnable passive rfid tag 204 the inclusion of such rfid tags 202 204 allows the ballot paper 200 to be safely authenticated and easily tracked all along the voting process the rfid tags 202 204 can be implemented either on the surface or embedded in the substrate of a ballot support 206 the electronic personalization of the ballot paper 200 is defined by its instruction set which is encoded in the basic passive rfid tag 202 at a configuration step when emitted by the jurisdiction the basic passive rfid tag 202 works differently from the burnable passive rfid tag 204 the basic passive rfid tag 202 requires two data fields 208 210 both working in write once and read multiple modes the first data field 208 contains a jurisdiction 39 s signature.