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Smart Voting System
Gowtham R1, Harsha K N2, Manjunatha B3, Girish H S4 , Nithya Kumari R5
1,2,3,4
UG Scholars, Dept of ECE
5
Asst. Professor
KSIT, Bengaluru, India
Abstract : ̶ Voting system plays a vital role in democratic 2. METHODOLOGIES
countries like India. “Vote” means to choose a better candidate
who is participating in the election. The process of choosing a The paper [1], describes the RFID based voting system.
leader in all the candidates from a list by casting their votes, is Where the system deals with the use of RFID,
called “voting”. In this paper, we propose a system in which,
people who have citizenship of India and whose age is above 18
Microcontroller and GSM technology for the improvement
years they can vote without going to their home constituency of election process by avoiding the electoral fraud and to
on the day of Election. Our purpose of Aadhar based Smart ensuring the reliability, security, safety, transparency and
voting system in public elections that would allow people to vote guarantee for the smooth conduction of election. RFID is
electronically, from their current city. In this system, voting is Radio Frequency Identification uses electromagnetic fields
based on Aadhar’s biometric database that is a fingerprint. to automatically identify and track RFID tags attached to
This voting system would offer higher security and hoping that Objects. The GSM module that is used in this system is
it will increase voting percentage. SIM900A. It has a built in RS-232 which is an added
advantage and also provides the users to insert SIM. In this
Keywords:- Aadhar, Biometric, Electronic Voting Machine, paper, where voting process initiates with communication of
Fingerprint and voting system. voting device with voter id’s card where RFID Tag is
embedded on the Voter id. The RFID tag that has been used
1. INTRODUCTION in the implementation operates at a frequency of 125 KHz.
after the successful verification of ID, if it matches then the
In Democratic countries like India, the voting system plays device will send a one time password to the GSM Module
a major role during elections. Traditionally, the election where it send a OTP to the voter’s mobile and voter has to
commission in India uses electronic voting machines which insert the password again device will check the password, if
need more manpower, time-consuming and also they are less it matches then voter using the keypad can cast the vote. This
trustworthy. As we know, in every country Election is a system makes voting process easy and safety of voting
basic process of democracy which allows people to show process is enhanced.
their opinions by selecting their candidate. India is spending
huge money to improve our whole voting system to provide The paper [2] discusses the Biometric based voting system.
a better government to citizens. In India, voting system As we know Biometric is one of the unique identity like
should be honest, translucent and fully secure for the better DNA and Iris. In this Proposed system they are using the
democracy. The current system is used to less transparency Biometric verification to enhance the security and safety of
because there could be chances of cheating at the voting voting Process to avoid the electoral frauds. According to
time. Authentication of Voters, Security of the voting this paper here we are supposed to store voter’s database in
process, protecting voted data these are the main challenges the server. The database may include mainly Name of the
of current Election voting. That’s why it is necessary to voter, Address of the voter, Biometric information of the
generate a secure election voting system. Nowadays with the voter. Here no storage devices included in the voting device.
rise in population the need for checking the validity of the All the storage or memory are in the server.
voters has become a problem. As the modern Here IOT Technology is used for the server operations and
communications and Internet, today are almost accessible to update the voting details. Here all the voting devices
electronically, the computer technology users, brings the connected to the single [Link] server for one
increasing need for electronic services and their security. constituency. Here at initially Fingerprint verification is
Usages of new technology in the voting process improve the done. After the successful verification of Biometric system
elections in natural. After the industrialisation more number will check with database. Once it matches then the server
of people leave their native places and come to the cities for will checks about whether the voter is already casted vote or
the job sake. But many of them still have their voter ids in not. if he already casted vote then Buzzer will make sound.
the address of their native places. On the day of voting they if not casted vote then voting device allows to cast his vote.
can’t able to go their places so they don’t cast their valuable using the keypad voter can cast the vote. after successful
vote. this is the main reason for reduction of voting voting, server will be updated and GSM module will get
percentage in our country. Our government also keep on activated and using the phone number which is stored in
working to find out a best solution for this circumstance. voter’s database, it will send a message of successful voting
to the voter’s phone. When last voter cast his vote, we have
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the voting counts ready in server, election officer can Studio is used for the development of application and Mysql
announce the result on the day of Election itself so, it avoids is used for the relational database management. This system
the lot of investment of money and the time. So by using this can be used in public elections of a country and also used for
system we can avoid the counting time of votes and committee election. People can cast their vote wherever they
completely free with the man power. So can avoid manual may be and even without going to election booth. This
errors which can happen while counting. But the drawback system provides helpful for physically challenged people or
is what can we see is to create a database of all the voters is disabled, patients, military and senior citizens.
need maximum investment by a government.
The paper [5], provides the Study on Biometric and Multi-
The paper [3], describes the mobile based facial recognition modal biometric system modules and its applications,
using OTP verification for the voting process. In this Techniques and challenges. During elections we can see that
proposed system firstly voter has to create a database using more number of the fake voters immigrates from the
his Android mobile phone through the facial recognition. In neighbouring countries. This system is proposed to avoid
this system internet connection is essential. In the first step that electoral frauds. Here they have mentioned the Uni
registration has to be done by the voter in an application. modal and Multi modal biometric system. For the
here voter should enroll their information like Name, date of verification and for the identification Multi modal biometric
birth, Phone number and face of the voter. After the system provides combination of two or more biometric
successful registration, on the day of voting voter has to traits. This system uses multiple sensors for acquiring the
login the application using the id and password given by the data that captures the multiple samples of a single biometric
[Link] is valid on that day only and password is trait. To provide the safety and security for the biometric
encrypted using MD5 algorithm, then application will sample they are encrypting it using cryptographic techniques
captures the face of the voter using mobile camera and like RSA and AES. But the limitation is we have to maintain
compares it with already strored face of the voter. Once the the decryption key secretly. This system can also be used
image is recognized or matched with existing image of the extensively in commercial purposes like ATM, Credit cards,
database, then the server will send a OTP ( One Time Network login. Government can also implement this system
Password) to the voter’s mobile phone and voter has to be in border security, National identity cards, passport control
enter the OTP. Then the entered OTP is verified, it is correct and forensic applications.
then it means he is valid voter. Then Candidate names will
be displayed on mobile phone and there will be option called The Paper [6] briefs about Biometrics Secured Voting
vote is provided for each candidate. Voter has to press any System with Finger Print, Face and Iris Verification. This
button to his favourable candidate. After the successful vote, system provides the highest security to the voting process.
voter can logout his session in application. For security sake At initially voter has to give his fingerprint input to the
his session id is destroyed and password is encrypted using fingerprint scanner. Here FM220 Starttek Scanner is the
MD5 algorithm. All the votes casted by voters are stored in fingerprint scanner used. It has the capacity that to scan and
the server, just by seeing it election officer can easily store the fingerprint. minutiae matching algorithm is the
announce the election result. This system provides the high algorithm used for the fingerprint scanning. Face will be
security in voting process. Using this system voter can save input through the Camera that is inbuilt in the Laptop. Iris is
time by standing in queue and there is no need to go election detected from the photo of the face. Viola-Jones is the
booth to cast the vote. algorithm used for the face detection. PCA [Principal
Component Analysis] and Adaptive thresholding algorithm
The paper [4] discusses about the Secured Smart Voting is used for Iris matching and feature extraction. MatLab is
System using Aadhar. This paper is mainly focused on the the software is used for the comparision and verification of
reduction of voting percentage in India. To overcome the the input data and the trained data. All the input data is
above problem this paper is proposed a system which is easy compared with the already stored database. If verification of
and secure by developing a Mobile Application. Since it is a any one stage is unsuccessful then the system will declare
mobile application based, it is highly secure compared to user has fake voter. All the stages should be successfully
online voting system. In this system it is app based Biometric verified and input data should be matched with stored
online voting system, as we know Aadhar database has the database. Then the candidate names will be displayed and
person’s name, address, age, iris, fingerprint and the phone voter can vote to his favourable candidate. Using this system
number. On the day of election, voter has to login the security of voting process is enhanced and it is easy to use.
application, firstly voter has to give fingerprint, it will No need of remembering any ids and passwords. Best
compared with fingerprint which is stored in database for the solution for the security loop holes.
verification. After the successful fingerprint verification, age
of the voter is verified since according to our Indian The Paper [7] describes, The Arduino based Fingerprint
Constitution, Voter’s age has to be greater than or equal to Voting System. As we know Arduino is the open source
18. Then On the GUI candidate names and their party electronic prototyping platform enabling users to create
symbol is displayed. Then Voter can cast their vote. This interactive electronic objects. here Arduino uno of
even helps the illiterates to actively cast their vote. The ATmega328 is used. In this system also we have create
casted vote will be updated on the respective databases. database for al the citizens. Here one database for the one
Voter will be notified for the successful vote. Android district. There will be central database where it can control
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the database. It is offline version of electronic based 3. CONCLUSION
fingerprint voting system using Arduino. At initially voter Most of the methodologies mentioned above provides the
has to verify his fingerprint. Fingerprint is verified with the safety, security and transparent to the voting process. But we
already stored database. Then voter has to enter the voter are proposing system that gives the provision to vote from
national id number. Again it is verified with the database. If anywhere in India so the voter no need to come to his
there is any mismatch in comparing the database, then the constituency if he is in any other place on the day of voting.
user has declared as fake voter. After the successful We are using a Aadhar database where the person’s
verification of the voter’s information, Then the candidate information like name, age, address, biometric identity, iris
names will be displayed on the screen. Voter can cast his information, phone numbers are stored. For the security
valuable vote. Vote will be updated on the vote list. After purpose we are using a biometric authentication at the initial
the voting process, to announce a result there will be button stage of the voting process and we also verifying the age of
of result. For the security purpose this button will be fixed the voter too. Vote casted by the voter will update on the
inside the voting device. Only the admin can access the voter’s constituency database and we can also easily
device and can see the result. The one who gets maximum announce the results without any manual error. So we are
vote will be declared as the winner. It provides easy and hoping that may our country’s voting percentage will
accurate result without any trouble. This system prevents increase in future using this system in the voting process.
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