Biometric Based Electronic Voting Machine

  Rajkumar Mistri,  Anamika,  Sushmita Kumari

The objective of voting is to allow voters to exercise their right to express their choices regarding specific issues, pieces of legislation, citizen initiatives, and/or to choose their government and political representatives. But, now- a -days it has become very usual for some forces to indulge in rigging which may eventually lead to a result contrary to the actual verdict given by the people. In order to provide inexpensive solutions to the above, this project will be implemented with biometric system i.e. finger print scanning. This is used to ensure the security to avoid fake, repeated voting etc. It also enhances 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. The purpose of such system is to ensure that the voting rights are accessed only by a legitimate user and no one else. In this, creation of a database consisting of the thumb impressions of all the eligible voters in a constituency is done as a pre-poll procedure. During elections, the thumb impression of a voter is entered as 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. The result is instantaneous and counting is done. The overall cost for conducting elections gets reduced and so does the maintenance cost of the systems. The recording and counting of votes will be faster, more accurate and with less man power.

Keywords- Fingerprint scanning, Database, Thumb impression, Arduino, Microcontroller, TFT LCD, Buzzer, Fingerprint scanner, Matrix, Membrane Keypad

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1802048
Page Number(s) - 273-277
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 2 | April 2018
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Rajkumar Mistri,  Anamika,  Sushmita Kumari,   "Biometric Based Electronic Voting Machine", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 2, pp.273-277, April 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1802048.pdf