Design Of Fingerprint Voting Machine

ABSTRACT

The heart of democracy is voting. The heart of voting is trust that each vote is recorded and tallied with accuracy and impartiality. The accuracy and impartiality are tallied in high rate with biometric system. Among these biometric signs, fingerprint has been researched the longest period of time, and shows the most promising future in real-world applications. Because of their uniqueness and consistency over time, fingerprints have been used for identification over time. However, because of the complex distortions among the different impression of the same finger in real life, fingerprint recognition is still a challenging problem.

Fingerprint 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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER PAGE

TITLE PAGE

APPROVAL PAGE

DEDICATION

ACKNOWELDGEMENT

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1      BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT

• PROBLEMSTATEMENT
• ADVANTAGES OF THE PROJECT
• AIM/OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT
• SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT
• LIMITATION OF THE PROJECT
• METHODOLOGY
• PROJECT ORGANISATION

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

• REVIEW OF FINGERPRINT VOTING MACHINE
• REVIEW OF FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION
• DESCRIPTION OF A VOTING MACHINE
• EARLY HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF A VOTING MACHINE
• VOTE-RECORDING TECHNOLOGIES

CHAPTER THREE

METHODOLOGY

• BLOCK DIAGRAM OF THE PROJECT
• SYSTEM CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
• CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION
• HARDWARE REQUIREMENT
• SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT
• SYSTEM WORKING PRINCIPLE
• CIRCUIT OPERATION
• DESCRIPTION AND FUNCTION OF MAJOR PARTS OF THE SYSTEM
• POWER SUPPLY UNIT

CHAPTER FOUR

RESULT ANALYSIS

• ECONOMIC OF THE PROJECT
• PROJECT VIABILITY
• RELIABILITY
• MAINTAINABILITY
• PROJECT EVALUATION
• PROBLEMS FACED AND MODIFICATIONS
• FUTURE MODIFICATIONS

CHAPTER FIVE

• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES

CHAPTER ONE

   1.0                                                     INTRODUCTION

1.4                                             OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT

The objective of voting is to allow voters to exercise their right to express their choices regarding specific issues, pieces of legislation, citizen initiatives, constitutional amendments, recalls and/or to choose their government and political representatives. This system improves the security performance in the voting machine as well as provide easy access to cast the vote by using finger print.

Technology is being used more and more as a tool to assist voters to cast their votes. To allow the exercise of this right, almost all voting systems around the world include the following steps:

• Voter identification and authentication
• Voting and recording of votes cast
• vote counting
• Publication of election results

1.5                                         SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT

This project is very used to improve the security performance in the voting machine. In this project finger print is used as vote ID card. Now day’s some person makes the duplicate vote ID card. But in this project human finger print is used for caste the vote. So this project improves the security performance and avoid forgery vote because naturally one human finger print is different from other human.

1.6                                           LIMITATION OF THE PROJECT

Limitation of this particular project talks about the disadvantages of using the device. This device has no different than websites or software; they can be penetrated and altered by a hacker.

• Overall cost is high, physical tampering could be possible.
• Computer software and systems can have problems that may delay or even halt voting.

1.7                                         METHODOLOGY

To achieve the aim and objectives of this work, the following are the steps involved:

1. Study of the previous work on the project so as to improve it efficiency.
2. Draw a block diagram.

• Test for continuity of components and devices,

1. Design and calculation for the device was carried out.
2. Studying of various component used in circuit.
3. Construction of the circuit was carried out.

• Finally, the whole device was cased and final test was carried out.

1.8                                                         PROJECT ORGANISATION

The work is organized as follows: chapter one discuses the introductory part of the work,   chapter two presents the literature review of the study,  chapter three describes the methods applied,  chapter four discusses the results of the work, chapter five summarizes the research outcomes and the recommendations.