An Automatic Ballot Mechanism for Electoral Purpose

It has always been an arduous task for the election commission to conduct free and fair polls in our country, the largest democracy in the world. Crores of rupees have been spent on this to make sure that the elections are riot free. But, now-a-days it has become common for some forces to indulge in rigging which may eventually lead to a result contrary to the actual verdict given by the people. This paper aims to present a new voting system employing biometrics in order to avoid rigging and to enhance the accuracy and speed of the process. The system uses thumb impression for voter identification as we know that the thumb impression of every human being has a unique pattern. Thus it would have an edge over the present day voting systems. As a pre-poll procedure, a database consisting of the thumb impressions of all the eligible voters in a constituency is created. During elections, the thumb impression of a voter is enteredas input to the system. This is then compared with the available records in the database. If the particular pattern matches with anyone in the available record, access to cast a vote is granted. But in case the pattern doesn't match with the records of the database or in case of repetition, access to cast a vote is denied or the vote gets rejected. All the voting machines are connected in a network, through which data transfer takes place to the main host. The result is instantaneous and counting is done finally at the main host itself. The overall cost for conducting elections gets reduced and so does the maintenance cost of the systems. 1. INTRODUCTION The objective of voting is to allow voters to exercise their right to express their choices regarding specific issues. Technology is being used more and more as a tool to assist voters to cast their votes. The two types systems implemented for voting are: Ballot Box, EVM. Knowing the disadvantages in the previous methods the biometric method of voting is being implemented. In the biometric process we are utilizing the fingerprint authentication of the individual. Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is a simple electronic device used to record votes in place of ballot papers and boxes which were used earlier in conventional voting system. Fundamental right to vote or simply voting in elections forms the basis of democracy. All earlier elections be it state elections or centre elections a voter used to cast his/her favourite candidate by putting the stamp against his/her name and then folding the ballot paper as per a prescribed method before putting it in the Ballot Box. This is a long, time-consuming process and very much prone to errors. This situation continued till election scene was completely changed by electronic voting machine. No more ballot paper, ballot boxes, stamping, etc. all this condensed into a simple box called ballot unit of the electronic voting machine. Because biometric identifiers cannot be easily misplaced, forged, or shared, they are considered more reliable for person recognition than traditional token or knowledge based methods. The basic point of this system is to examine the fingerprint image of an individual and compare it to a database of the registered fingerprints. They provide a quick, easy, efficient, and secure measure through which, an individual with the exact authentication can only cast the vote.

There are several issues should be addressed and taken into consideration prior to initiating the e-voting system. The proposed system in this paper will ensure the integrity and the transparency of the electoral process. The paper will also focus on what's really needed to design a robust, secure and scalable electronic voting system that ensures accuracy, neutrality, transparency, simplicity, flexibility, Sustainability, and security of the information. With respect to accuracy, the system must be safe and secure in the face of numerous threats. In order to safeguard the neutrality of voter registration process, the system should not favour a particular party or group. Looking at the risks and benefit associated with transparency, the process must be clear in terms of counting the electronic votes, taking the political and legal setting into account. For simplicity, the process must be easy to understand for citizens and elected politicians. The simplicity allows for extreme flexibility in adapting to disabled and illiterate voters as well. All the above mentioned points will be addressed in the proposed contribution.

International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer Science & Technology, 2020

The focus of this paper is to design and development of a biometric enabled biometric electronic voting machine. The proposed biometric electoral voting system allows the user to scan fingerprint and iris so that his or her credentials can be compared to existing fingerprint and iris images already stored in the system's database. Counting is going on right away, making the voting process more efficient, faster and safer. This system requires the identification of the voter Aadhaar card, the voter's thumb impression as well as the iris image. Voter's complete data, including all voters' fingerprint and iris image, is collected and stored in the database. While voting, the voter gives their Aadhaar card details and puts eye in front of the iris camera and finger inside a fingerprint scanner, the system looks for the seal already provided in the data base, and then compares the iris image to authenticate the voter's identity. If the data matches, the system commands the voter to vote through the electronic voting machine. If the fingerprints do not match, the voting presiding officer looks for the registration, or the iris image does not match after the fingerprint match, the voter is not allowed to vote, consider it vote rigging. KEYWORDS-Electronic voting machine, iris, fingerprint I. INTRODUCTION Now, democracy has become a crucial part of people's lives [3]. The depth of democracy is voting. The voting process must be reliable, and the voting record must be accurately and reasonably recorded. This is often accomplished using a biometric system.

IJARCCE

The electronic voting machine verifies voters using finger print scanners. A voting system that uses fingerprint identification eliminates the requirement for the user to carry an ID that provides the necessary information. Web-based system enables voter to cast their votes from anywhere in the world. Online website has a prevented IP address generated by the government of India for election purpose. People should register the name and address in the website. Election commission will collect the fingerprint and face image from the voters. The database or server will store the images. , keeping track of voter decisions is not a difficult task, however, in situations where there are hundreds of thousands of voters, keeping a precise record of voter decisions becomes important and more difficult. The advancements in blockchain technology provide a potential solution to the record-keeping problem of contemporary voting procedures, as blockchain technology by design, excels in applications where multiple users are working on immutable data. this project provides the best solution to avoid false voting. The electronic voting machine was connected with the computer. The computer is having the full database list of the peoples who are having the eligibility to vote. For each polling, the corresponding person identity was deleted. So it avoids false voting. A touch screen is used, so it is user-friendly.

IJARCCE

This paper describes electoral system which is completely automated, unbiased and online for easing the process of voting , increasing security and reducing the counting time The project is divided mainly into two section first one is voter registration phase of voter and second one is of actual voting phase on voting console. In voter registration phase the database of voter will be saved in repository which specifically contains voter's unique identification number and finger prints information. Project contains biometric device which will verify the identity from the database saved in repository by the communication of Wi-Fi module i.e. esp8266 and if respective voter is identified then authorization will approve to that respective voter at the same time in other section of repository it updates the database of authorized voter to register voter is qualify to vote and to uniqueness ,also it will prevent the duplication and falsification of voter ;after getting authority from the repository voting enabling signal will send from VVB by using ZigBee to voting console for enabling voting for that particular voter , when voter votes then that vote will send to repository with the help of esp8266 and the voting console will be reset after the voting of each vote.

2021

In democratic countries, free and fair elections are required to quantify the populace's sentiments to form a government of representatives. It is challenging to maneuver due to the procedural variation from country to country and complexity. As paper-based electoral systems are slow and prone to error that take hours and ample manpower to announce the results, thus a secure efficient electoral system is always preferred. In this paper, we have proposed a secure implementation of auto-registration fingerprint identification-based electronic voting systems to overcome the aspect of accuracy and transparency. We have included a novel feature of automated registration to authenticate the user through identity before the vote casting. Moreover, credentials of voters are collected in a database including fingerprints, and communication of encrypted data between server and machine with secured Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Additionally, the voter can cast their votes through a touch scre...

International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science

An online voting system is to avoid multiple polling and irregularities at counting location. Currently, the voting system in India is inefficient and vulnerable to outer threats. The security check is depending on the voter Identity Card (ID) and the card is duplicated for an instance with varying addresses. Vote counting is done manually and is found that it is a process that consumes a big span of time. Due to the lack of securities in the rural areas the polling booths are captured and the ballots are destroyed. In order to avoid these kinds of disturbances, the implementation of an online voting system with digital securities and reusing the existing devices may incur less cost. This study proposes a Fingerprint Based Voting System, which uses a recognition part of the user through a fingerprint verification module. Since the fingerprint pattern is unique for humans, the authentication is done easily and duplicating such pattern is highly impossible. The system allows the voter to login through the fingerprint. The proposed method restricts the voter not to vote for more than one time.

Mechatronics and Its …, 2008

In this paper we propose a multifaceted online e-voting system. The proposed system is capable of handling electronic ballots with multiple scopes at the same time, e.g., presidential, municipal, parliamentary, amongst others. The system caters for integrity of an election process in terms of the functional and non-functional requirements. The functional requirements embedded in the design of the proposed system warrant well-secured identification and authentication processes for the voter through the use of combined simple biometrics. The design of the system guarantees that no votes in favor of a given candidate are lost, due to improper tallying of the voting counts, with the proper incorporation of system FLAG's. Transparency of voting follows through in all phases of an election process to assure the voter that his/her vote went in favor of his/her candidate of choice. Besides its main functional properties, the proposed system is designed to cater for several essential nonfunctional requirements. Of utmost importance are the requirements for correctness, robustness, coherence, consistency, and security. To verify the robustness and reliability of the proposed system, intensive computer simulations were run under varying voting environments, viz. voter density, voter inter-arrival times, introduced acts of malice, etc. Results of the simulations show that security and performance of the system are according to expectations. These results provide the proper grounds that would guide the decision maker in customizing the proposed system to fit his particular voting needs.

2016

This paper aims at creation of secure online voting system providing biometric security. Online voting system used for government elections. Online voting system is publically available system so there are various types of attacks to hack this system. Propose a new secure online voting system by using biometric and steganographic authentication. The vote casting and recording also secure using homomorphic encryption, blind signature to solve the problem of voter votes hacking and destroying system. Here an image based and biometric authentication is used. Use of homomorphic technique encrypts the casted vote stored securely in vote casting and recording server. Also the system is very user friendly. It is reliable system for outside voters.

Fingerprint verification is an important biometric technique for personal identification his is largely due to its easy and cost effective integration in existing and upcoming technologies. The integration of biometric with electronic voting machine requires less manpower, save much time of voters and eliminate rigging, ensure accuracy, transparency and fast results in election. In this paper, a framework for electronic voting machine based on biometric verification is proposed and implemented. The proposed framework ensures secured identification and authentication processes for the voters and candidates through the use of fingerprint biometrics.