Fingerprint Based Secured Voting

• Published in: 2019 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Control (ICAC3) pp. 1 - 6
• Main Authors: Hasta, Khadija, Date, Aditya, Shrivastava, Aparna, Jhade, Prajakta, Shelke, S. N.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.12.2019
• Subjects: Arduino; Authentication; E-Voting; Electronic voting; Fingerprint; Fingerprint recognition; Minutiae; Paper Ballot System
• DOI: 10.1109/ICAC347590.2019.9036777

In the current scenario, most of the countries of the world hold their elections using Electronic Voting Machines, where your vote gets registered electronically with the help of an Electronic Machine without using and wasting ballot paper to vote for elections. As security is a major concern nowadays, ensuring that no person exercises the right to vote twice is the main aspect. We can resolve this issue by introducing Finger Print Based Voting, where a person can be authorized based on his Finger Print. This will put an end to fake voting. The domain of the project is the Internet of Things where we are building Fingerprint Based Biometric Voting Machine using Arduino. We know that IoT is the system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Thus our Fingerprint online module is an application where the user is recognized by his finger pattern. As we know that the minutiae features on a finger of each human being are different, the voter can be easily authenticated. The online system allows the voter to vote through his fingerprint. The fingerprint of the voter is used to uniquely and distinctively identify him/her using the fingerprint module. Also, the system promises the right to vote a candidate only once, thus not allowing the voter to vote for the second time. An admin is assigned to add all the candidates standing for the election. Only the admin has the right to add a candidate name and photo who are nominated. The Admin will also register the voter's name by verifying voter's details. Admin will authenticate the voter by verifying the voter's identity and then admin will register the voter. Once the user has got the voters id and password from the admin the user can log in and vote for the candidates who were nominated. The system will allow the user to vote for only one candidate. In the end, the election result is published by using the election id. Even users can view the election result.