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Fingerprint Voting System

This document describes a proposed fingerprint-based voting system for Garden City University College (GCUC) in Ghana. The system aims to address problems with traditional manual voting like over-voting and perceived unfairness. It uses a fingerprint module connected to a microcontroller to authenticate voters by matching their fingerprints to a database of eligible voters. If a match is found, the person can cast their vote and their ID is removed from the voting list to prevent double voting. The objectives are to design a secure electronic voting application that produces reliable results and keeps accurate records of the voting process.

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Fingerprint Voting System

This document describes a proposed fingerprint-based voting system for Garden City University College (GCUC) in Ghana. The system aims to address problems with traditional manual voting like over-voting and perceived unfairness. It uses a fingerprint module connected to a microcontroller to authenticate voters by matching their fingerprints to a database of eligible voters. If a match is found, the person can cast their vote and their ID is removed from the voting list to prevent double voting. The objectives are to design a secure electronic voting application that produces reliable results and keeps accurate records of the voting process.

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Fingerprint Based Voting System

Cariaga, Zyra D.
Castro, Geline Marie B.
Cornejo, Kathleen G.
Escueta, Jhon Renz C.
Icaro, Niecer Jr. A.
Vitangcol, Dainielle Anne

BS ECE – 5A
INTRODUCTION

It has been the norm of the day that selecting leaders to lead

countries, organizations, and students in educational institutions and smaller

groups in communities in the modern era is always associated with voting

procedures. No matter how small or large a group may be, when it comes to

its elections, all the stakeholders of such bodies may ascribe great interest.

Not long, in the year 2016 to be precise, the country Ghana conducted its

periodic election and the entire country became silent a while when the

election results were pending to be announced by the Electoral Commission

(EC) of the nation. At that moment, almost all Ghanaians with television set,

radio set and other means of communications were completely glued to

such means of communication when they were waiting to hear from the EC’s

declaration of the election results. This scenario suggests that, people put in

all their emotions when it comes to elections and therefore suggests that

all voting procedures must be authentic, free and fair and reliable.

Over the years, most educational institutions including Garden City

University College (GCUC) have seen manual ways of conducting elections

for their student bodies that mostly poses many problems such as over-

voting, invalid vote casts and perceived unfairness. These problems andmany

others have been thorn in the flesh for most EC officials who conduct

such voting events for their institutions. To help the EC officials in GCUC in this

dimension, the researcher embarked on application of technology in solving

the mentioned problems by designing and implementing an electronic

voting system with biometric verification that provides reliable results and
secured voting procedures. If this application is accepted and implemented,

it will not only keep records and generate voting results but will also provide

much secured environment to enable free and fair election. Moreover, the

application has implemented better data structures and algorithms that

make it running fast.

Though the project’s product was meant for GCUC, it had

been designed with the intention of replicating it for other student bodies or

associations in any other institution that may require the services of such

application in their voting proceedings.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The fingerprint voting project demands the user to submit Fingerprint at

the polling booth. The main objective of this project is to design a system that

asks to user to show his/her fingerprint as an identify proof. The sys reads the

date from the fingerprint and verifies the date which is already stored data in

the database. If the given details match with the database data, the system

allows the person to cast their vote. If the given fingerprint data does not

match with the stored data, the system immediately activates the display

and the security authorities can come and take the further action.

The aim of this research is to help produce a software platform that will

make elections of the associations free and fair, and authentic. To achieve

this, the researcher will

1. Embark on reviewing existing systems that perform similar tasks.

2. Design and implement database for record keeping on elections.


3. Design and implement an application that handles the voting

procedures.

4. Implement Secured network platform that provides authentic voting

process.

5. Provide platform for viewing current and previous election reports.

CONCEPTUAL MODEL
MATERIALS USED

Hardware Specification:

• Finger Print Module

• Microcontroller (Atmega 328)

• Voltage regulator

• Micro switches

• Transformer

• Resistors

• Capacitors

• Diodes

Software Specifications

• Arduino compiler

• MC Programming Language: Embedded C


PERSPECTIVE OF THE DEVICE

One of the major factors to be taken care of in a voting process is

authentication and authorization of voters. Many conditions need to be

checked to ensure these factors. Major conditions include:

1. Check authenticity of voter

2. Authorize legitimate voters to vote

3. Avoid double vote casting by any individual

Checking if all these conditions manually is a very complicated and

exhausting task with many chances of human error. To avoid this we here

propose a fingerprint based voting system project. We use a fingerprint

module interfaced with microcontroller and an LCD screen in this system. The

fingerprint module is used to sense fingerprints and provide to microcontroller

for further processing. The system has list of eligible voters in it, the voting

system tallies the recognized finger print against the ones stored in database.

If match is found that person is allowed to vote. Once a vote is casted by

that person his id is rolled out for that voting process. This avoids double vote

casting. Thus our system provides for a fully automated voting system with

finger print based authentication.

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