22-11-2012, 05:14 PM
Mobile Voting using Global System for Mobile Communication
(GSM) Technology and Authentication using Fingerprinting
Biometrics and Wireless Networks
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INTRODUCTION
Elections in India are events involving political
mobilization and organizational complexity on an
amazing scale. In the 1996 election to Lok Sabha there
were 1,269 candidates from 38 officially recognized
national and state parties seeking election, 1,048
candidates from registered parties, not recognized and
10,635 independent candidates. A total number of 59,
25,72,288 people voted. The Election Commission
employed almost 40, 00,000 people to run the election.
A vast number if civilian police and security forces were
deployed to ensure that the elections were carried out
peacefully. The direct cost of organizing the election
amounted to approximately Rs. 5,180 million. Since this
was the case a decade and a half back, imagine the cost
of organizing the elections at present? Lavish isn’t it?
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Since, Voting is a vital part of the democratic process.
As such, the efficiency, reliability, and security of the
technologies involved are critical. Traditional voting
technologies include hand-counted paper ballots. These
paper-based systems can result in a number of problems,
including:
RELATED WORKS
Voting machines are the total combination of
mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic equipment
(including software, firmware, and documentation
required to program control, and support equipment),
that is used to define ballots; to cast and count votes; to
report or display election results; and to maintain and
produce any audit trail information. The first voting
machines were mechanical but it is increasingly more
common to use electronic voting machines.
A voting system includes the practices and
associated documentation used to identify system
components and versions of such components; to test
the system during its development and maintenance; to
maintain records of system errors or defects; to
determine specific changes made after initial
certification; and to make available any materials to the
voter (such as notices, instructions, forms, or paper
ballots).
PROPOSED ASSITIVE TECHNOLOGY
Use of the GSM security features, in particular the
authentication The proposed system suggests the
function along with fingerprint biometric scanner
technology inbuilt in mobile phones, which will be
customized in a cost-effective way, thus providing a
more viable option compared to existing systems. It
possesses the ability for the voters to cast vote even if
they are not present in the polling booth, with high
identification and secured measures, a unique feature of
our concept.
COMPONENTS USED IN THE PROPOSED WORK
A. Mobile Equipment/Voting Device (ME)
In electronic voting schemes, voters need to use
dedicated voting devices to cast their votes
electronically, for instance, Internet connected
computers or DRE machines. In our scheme, the voting
device corresponds to the GSM mobile equipment
(ME), which consists of a GSM SIM card for
connecting to the service provider (GSM Network) with
an inbuilt Fingerprinting biometric scanner.
Our system is based on the following assumptions.
We assume that the proposed Mobile Voting scheme is
part of a voting system, and that voters can choose to
vote through different methods, for example, the voting
booth. If voters want to vote through Mobile, they have
to be registered subscribers. This means that the voters
have already registered their real names , addresses and
their Fingerprint with their mobile operators by
presenting their eligible credentials at the time of
subscription. We assume that the Mobile operator is
trusted to authenticate the mobile users for the purpose
of voting and send the correct information to VS and
CS. [3]