Electronic voting machine - A review

• Published in: 2012 International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Informatics and Medical Engineering pp. 41 - 48
• Main Authors: Kumar, D. Ashok, Begum, T. Ummal Sariba
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.03.2012
• Subjects: Biometric EVM; Computers; Electronic voting; Electronic Voting Machine (EVM); Electronic voting systems; Fingerprint recognition; Nominations and elections; Security; Software; Voting
• ISBN: 1467310379; 9781467310376
• DOI: 10.1109/ICPRIME.2012.6208285

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 favorite 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. So the Electronic voting system has to be improved based on the current technologies viz., biometric system. This article discusses complete review about voting devices, Issues and comparison among the voting methods and biometric EVM.