05-02-2013, 11:33 AM
FINGER PRINT BASED ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE
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The Genesis – concept of EVM
( Existing SYSTEM)
• Electronic Voting Machines ("EVM"), Idea mooted by the Chief Election
Commissioner in 1977.
• The EVMs were devised and designed by Election Commission of India in
collaboration with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Bangalore and Electronics
Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Hyderabad. The EVMs are now
manufactured by the above two undertakings.
• An EVM consists of two units :
Control Unit
Balloting Unit
• The two units are joined by a five‐meter cable. The Control Unit is with the
Presiding Officer or a Polling Officer and the Balloting Unit is placed inside the
voting compartment.
Security Problems
• One can change the program installed in the EVM and tamper the results after the polling
• By replacing part of a small the machine with a look‐alike component that can be
silently instructed to steal a percentage of the votes in favor of a chosen candidate.
• These instructions can be sent wirelessly from a mobile phone.
Illegal Voting (Rigging)
• The very commonly known problem, Rigging which is faced in every
electoral procedure.
• One candidate, casts the votes of all the members or few amount of members
in the electoral list illegally.
• This results in the loss of votes for the other candidates participating and also
increases the number votes to the candidate who performs this action.
• This can be done externally at the time of voting.
Remedies for Security problems :
• The above mentioned security problems can be solved by other means such
as taking more care in keeping the EVMs safe and secure until the time of
declaring the results, which can be done manually.
• By placing Jammers at the Ballot vault to avoid the tampering using wireless
communication (Cell Phones).
• Results should be declared immediately after polling.
Proposed System
• The main aim of the project i.e. electronic voting machine using fingerprint
technology is to provide more security in authentication of a candidate
contesting in elections by providing a unique identity to every user using the
FINGERPRINT TECHNOLOGY provided if we maintain the fingerprints of all
the voters in a Database.
• Each and every user uses his fingerprint for casting his vote in the
procedure of electing his choice of candidate from the list of candidates
contesting in the elections conducted by The Election commission of India.
• This is purely to eradicate rigging which will be helpful to elect the genuine
candidates on the basis of number of votes polled to them.
• Here we are using Dual security i.e. not only fingerprint id but also a
unique numerical password for authentication for every user/voter.
Why only Fingerprint ?
• Every person in this universe has unique fingerprint.
• Fingerprints are unique i.e. everyone is born with one, which states that
fingerprints can be used for unique identification.
• Fingerprint scanner is a device for computer Security featuring
superior performance, accuracy, durability based on unique NITGEN
Fingerprint Biometric Technology.
• Fingerprints tech is widely used in banking, authentication etc…
• Reliable and trusted
Hence we opted for fingerprint technology in our project.