Abstract

The basic idea of this project is to create an electronic voting machine that will
help to eradicate defrauding of the manual voting systems and prior versions of
electronic voting.

The thesis looks into and proposes a system that includes multiple layers of
verifications to ensure the reliability of the device. With the inclusion of biometric
fingerprint sensor, each voter is entered into the system only after being
recognized and checked with the given database of enlisted voters. Once the
corresponding fingerprint is matched with the information provided, the voter will
be allowed to proceed for choosing their preferred candidate from the panel of
buttons.

The final vote is then displayed onto a LCD for the satisfaction of voters. The
proposed project displays transparency and also carries the feature of being
autonomous during the course of operation.
 INTRODUCTION
EVM machine is generally an electronic voting machine which is designed to vote
on different parties .

It has mainly two units;

a-control unit

b-balloting unit

with cable for connecting it with control unit .

Electronic voting machine are being used in Indian general and state electronics
to implement electronic voting in part from 1999 electronic and recently in 2017
state electronics held in five states across India.EVMs tamparability and security
which have not been proved.

Electronics had now come in the pocket of each and every citizen so in this trend
of automation electronics evm is the best thing which could be made.Previously
there were to many peoples required to complete the voting panel but with this
machine had changed the era of voting.
 Block Diagram of Biometric Voting Machine

Full description of the project

ARDUINO
We all are quite familiar with Electronic Voting Machines, where your vote gets
registered electronically and you don’t need to use ballot paper to vote in
election. Today security is a major concern and it also needs to be ensured that
someone can’t vote twice, so this problem can be solved by introducing Finger
Print Based Voting, where a person can be authorized based on his finger Print.
This will also stops fake voting. So today we are building FingerPrint Based
Biometric Voting Machine using Arduino.
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Finger Print Based Biometric Voting Machine using Arduino

Required Components:
1. Arduino Uno
2. Finger Print Sensor Module
3. Push Buttons
4. LEDs -2
5. 1K Resistor -3
6. 2.2K resistor
7. Power
8. Connecting wires
9. Buzzer
10. 16x2 LCD
11. Bread Board
Finger Print Sensor Module in Voting Machine:
Finger Print Sensor Module or Finger Print Scanner is a module which
captures finger’s print image and then converts it into the equivalent template
and saves them into its memory on selected ID (location) by Arduino. Here all the
process is commanded by Arduino like taking an image of finger print, convert it
into templates and storing location etc.

In this FingerPrint Voting Machine Circuit, we have used Finger Print Sensor
Module to authenticate true voter by taking their finger input in the system. Here
we are using 5 push buttons to Match, Enroll/back, Delete/OK, UP and Down.
Enroll and Del key have double features here. Enroll key is used for enrolling
new finger impression into the system and back function as well. Means when
the user wants to enroll new finger then he/she needs to press enroll key then
LCD asks for the ID or Location where user wants to store the finger print output.
Now if at this time user do not want to proceed further then he/she can press
enroll key again to go back (this time enroll key behave as Back key). Means
enroll key has both enrollment and back function. DEL/OK key also has same
double function like when user enrolls new finger then he/she need to select
finger ID or Location by using another two key namely UP AND DOWN now user
needs to press DEL/OK key (this time this key behaves like OK) to proceed with
selected ID or Location. Match key is used for whenever voter wants to vote
then he/she needs to authenticate first for true voter by keeping finger on Finger
Print Sensor, if he/she passed in this authentication then he/she can vote.
To learn more about enrolling finger prints and other things, Check our previous
tutorial on interfacing Finger Print Sensor with Arduino, and also check our
Demo Video at the end of this tutorial.

Working Explanation:
Working of this Biometric Voting System for Election is a little bit complex for
beginners. First of all, user needs to enroll finger or voters (in this code max limit
of the voter is 25) with the help of push buttons/keys. To do this user need to
press ENROLL key and then LCD asks for entering location/ID where finger will
be a store. So now user needs to enter ID (Location) by using UP/DOWN keys.
After selecting Location/ID user needs to press an OK key (DEL key). Now LCD
will ask for placing finger over the finger print module. Now user needs to put his
finger over finger print module. Then LCD will ask to remove the finger from
finger print module and again ask for placing the finger. Now user needs to put
his finger again over finger print module. Now finger print module takes an image
and converts it into templates and stores it by selected ID in to the finger print
module’s memory. Now voter will be registered and he/she can vote. By same
method all the voter can be registered into the system.
 Future Scope
1. A timer could be included,which could automatically end the voting after
specified duration of time.
2. Biometric verification of voters , so that automatically it can be insured that
one person is voting only ones.
3. It can be more interactive by adding sound assist system to it .
4. EEPROM can be used to store the data permanently .if we make more
than one evm each to be at different location and the final result is the
addition of result of all , we could think of connecting them to communicate
with each other and final result can be displayed on one lcd screen
5. UID data can be also fetched with the machines to acess the login of voters
through fingerprint.
 References
1-http://www.rspublications.com/ijected/ijected_index.htmissue 2,vol6
september2012 ISSN 2249-6149

2- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_voting_machines