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ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE USING FINGER PRINT CH. MANJULATHA1, S.SRIDHAR2

1 Ch. Manjulatha, M.Tech Student, Dept. Of ECE, RRS College of engineering and technology, Muthangi,

Patancheru, Medak, Telangana, India.

2 Guide Details, S.Sridhar, B.Tech, M.Tech, Assistant Professor, Dept. Of ECE, RRS College of engineering and

technology, Muthangi, Patancheru, Medak, Telangana, India.

Abstract: In democratic societies, voting is an

important tool to collect and re-act people thinking’s.

Traditionally, voting is conducted in centralized or

distributed places called polling booths. Voters go to

polling booths and cast their votes under the

supervision of authorized parties. Then the votes are

counted manually once the election has completed.

With the rapid growing development of computer

technology and cryptographic methods, the electronic

voting systems can be employed that replace the

incident and most importantly error-prone human

Component. Our project proposes and implements a

simple and secured method of polling vote by using

biometric. Due to the changes occurred in the

technology, so many advancements were introduced

in the field of voting. The improvisations aim at

increasing the flexibility security, reliability,

scalability of the model and provide less time

consumption to announce the result. Nowadays, the

voting procedure was held by manually operating

machines and even through SMS also. But this

electronic voting machine is a unique and new

concept which saves a lot of time and avoids the false

voting by a false person. In this system, the user has

to use his fingerprint to poll the authenticated vote.

The finger print module was already stored in the

government database. Hence this project provides a

best solution to avoid the false voting. The electronic

voting machine was connected with the computer.

The computer is having the full database list of the

peoples who is having the eligibility to vote. For each

polling the corresponding person identity was

deleted. So it avoids the false voting. A touch screen

is used, so it is user friendly. A printer is also used to

provide a confirmation sheet for the voter who polls

the authenticated vote. GSM module is used for

sending result to the corresponding authority.

Keywords: finger print module, GSM, LPC2148

I. INTRODUCTION

A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election.

In that method they may used a piece of paper or a

small ball for secret voting. Which was originally a

small ball- see blackball – that is used to record

decisions made by voters. Each one of the voter uses

one ballot, and that ballots are not shared. In simplest

elections ballot may be a simple scrap of paper on

which each voter writes in the name of a candidate.

In general body or governmental elections use pre-

printed to protect the secrecy of the votes. The person

who votes they can casts his/her ballot in a box at a

polling station. The word "ballot" is used for an

election process within an organization. Such as a

trade union "holding a ballot" of its members.

To increase the efficiency and accuracy of voting

procedures, large number of computerized voting

systems were developed to help collecting and

counting the votes. Which include Lever Voting

Machines, Voting based Punched Cards and Optical

Mark-Sense Scanners and Direct Recording

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Electronic (DRE) voting systems. Even though if we

are having many technologies, each and every

advance technology having some disadvantages.

Such as the electronic voting machine which we are

using nowadays also has few disadvantages. Voter

can hear the sound produced by the electronic voting

machine, but the person not getting

acknowledgement after the voting. And also the man

power is required to identify the person`s identity.

This may create some errors or electoral fraud. With

the aim of conducting democratic election, we

proposed the system to endeavor to improve the easy

usage of the voting machine with authentication and

an acknowledgement slip will be provided and a

keypad is used to give input so it is so highly easy to

overcome the button problem. GSM module is used

for sending result to the corresponding authority via

GSM.

II. HARDWARE SYSTEM

Fig 1: Block diagram

III. METHODOLOGY

Micro controller: This section forms the control unit

of the whole project. This section basically consists

of a Microcontroller with its associated circuitry like

Crystal with capacitors, Reset circuitry, Pull up

resistors (if needed) and so on. The Microcontroller

forms the heart of the project because it controls the

devices being interfaced and communicates with the

devices according to the program being written.

ARM7TDMI: ARM is the abbreviation of Advanced

RISC Machines, it is the name of a class of

processors, and is the name of a kind technology too.

The RISC instruction set, and related decode

mechanism are much simpler than those of Complex

Instruction Set Computer (CISC) designs.

Liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat panel display,

electronic visual display that uses the light

modulation properties of liquid crystals. Liquid

crystals do not emit light directly. LCDs are available

to display arbitrary images or fixed images which can

be displayed or hidden, such as preset words, digits,

and 7-segment displays as in a digital clock.

GSM:

Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) is

a set of ETSI standards specifying the infrastructure

for a digital cellular service.

The network is structured into a number of discrete

sections:

Base Station Subsystem – the base stations

and their controllers explained

Network and Switching Subsystem – the

part of the network most similar to a fixed

network, sometimes just called the "core

network"

GPRS Core Network – the optional part

which allows packet-based Internet

connections

Operations support system (OSS) – network

maintenance

SM was intended to be a secure wireless system. It

has considered the user authentication using a pre-

MICRO

CONTROLLER

POWER SUPPLY

FINGER PRINT SCANNER

LCD DISPLAY

Buzzer

KEY PAD

Mini Printer

GSM

EEPROM

TOUCH PANEL

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shared key and challenge-response, and over-the-air

encryption. However, GSM is vulnerable to different

class of attacks, each of them aiming a different part

of the network.

Fig 2: GSM Module

EEPROM:

EEPROM (also written E2PROM and pronounced e-

e-prom or simply e-squared), which stands for

Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only

Memory, is a type of non-volatile memory used in

computers and other electronic devices to store small

amounts of data that must be saved when power is

removed, e.g., calibration tables or device

configuration. When larger amounts of more static

data are to be stored (such as in USB flash drives)

other memory types like flash memory are more

economical. EEPROMs are realized as arrays of

floating-gate transistors. In 1983, Greek American

George Perlegos at Intel developed the Intel 2816,

which was built on earlier EPROM technology, but

used a thin gate oxide layer so that the chip could

erase its own bits without requiring a UV source.

Perlegos and others later left Intel to form Seeq

Technology, which used on-device charge pumps to

supply the high voltages necessary for programming

EEPROMs.

Buzzer:

A buzzer or beeper is a signaling device, usually

electronic, typically used in automobiles, household

appliances such as a microwave ovens, & game

shows. The word "buzzer" comes from the rasping

noise that buzzers made when they were

electromechanical devices, operated from stepped-

down AC line voltage at 50 or 60 cycles. Other

sounds commonly used to indicate that a button has

been pressed are a ring or a beep.

The "Piezoelectric sound components" introduced

herein operate on an innovative principle utilizing

natural oscillation of piezoelectric ceramics. These

buzzers are offered in lightweight compact sizes from

the smallest diameter of 12mm to large Piezo electric

sounders. Today, piezoelectric sound components are

used in many ways such as home appliances, OA

equipment, audio equipment telephones, etc. And

they are applied widely, for example, in alarms,

speakers, telephone ringers, receivers, transmitters,

beep sounds, etc.

Fig 3: Types of Buzzers

Fingerprint module:

Features

On-line and off-line fingerprint

identification incorporated

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Identification rate 1:1 and 1:N; FAR:

1/100.000 y FRR: 1/1.000

Algorithm and high hardness optical sensor

It provides high recognition ratio even to

small size, wet, dry, calloused fingerprint.

Fast acquisition of difficult finger types

under virtually any condition.

Memory capacity for 100 fingerprints

Memory events: up to 2,000 authentications

Access host can be protected by fingerprint

or password

It offers convenient development

environment.

Two communication ports: RS-232 or host (

on-line applications )

ASCII protocol

Supply voltage: 5V

Small size and robust durability, it has

longer life span.

IV. CONCLUSION

Our project enables secured voting and reduces man

power efficiently. In this system we are introduce

some new concepts and that is implementing by

ARM processor. Due the immense development of

Aadhar card system it can be further improved by the

addition of Iris recognition system for more secured

polling. Due to immense development of Aadhar card

system it can be further improved by the addition of

Iris recognition system for more secured polling.

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