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

		1.1                                    BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECTVoting 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).Traditionally, a voting machine has been defined by the mechanism the system uses to cast votes and further categorized by the location where the system tabulates the votes.Voting machines have different levels of usability, security, efficiency and accuracy. Certain systems may be more or less accessible to all voters, or not accessible to those voters with certain types of disabilities. They can also have an effect on the public’s ability to oversee elections.Electronic voting systems may offer advantages compared to other voting techniques. An electronic voting system can be involved in any one of a number of steps in the setup, distributing, voting, collecting, and counting of ballots, and thus may or may not introduce advantages into any of these steps.Moreover it is also important that a false entry should not be made so for this one of the most secure methods for voting is using a biometric sensor like a fingerprint reader.Fingerprints are one of many forms of biometrics used to identify individuals and verify their identity. Fingerprint recognition or fingerprint authentication refers to the automated method of verifying a match between two human fingerprints.In this project we will be using a Fingerprint reader for providing access to the voter as well as making a  log if the person has voted or not. 1.2                                        STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Voting has been parts and parcel of student bodies in various educational institutions Nigeria. University college has various student associations that embark on election each year for the selection of new leaders that will oversee the smooth running of such associations. Over the years, student and candidates of such elections have been complaining of slowness, unreliability and non-free and fair elections. It would be better if student union government acquires software that provides authentic procedures for voting and maintains election records for future references. The system is to be developed with high security and user friendly. 1.3                                                  ADVANTAGES OF THE PROJECT 1.     Sophisticated security2.     No manual errors3.     No false intrusionNo Need to remember any password or ID

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.