WEB BASED FINGERPRINT VOTING SYSTEM

Author:Nandhushree A,Student
Dept:Information science and engineering
College:MVJ college of engineering

Abstract –The heart of democracy is voting.It is the fundamental right of every citizen of a
country,and it is very important to make sure that this process is done in a secured manner.
The problem of voting is still critical in terms of safety and security. This paper deals with the
design and development of a web-based voting system using fingerprint in order to provide a
high performance with high security to the voting system also we use web technology to make
the voting system more practical. The proposed EVS allows the voters to scan their fingerprint,
which is then matched with an already saved image within a database. The software is
implemented completely as a .net managed code in C#. Upon completion of voter
identification, voters are allowed to cast their vote using voting website. Casted vote will be
updated immediately. The result shows that the proposed electronic voting system is fast,
efficient and fraud-free.

Key words:
AFIS, biometric, e-voting, fingerprint, Minutiae, Electronic Voting.

Introduction : In the present day, democracy has become an important part of people's lives,
and to achieve democracy must meet several conditions. 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. Minutiae Based Matching is a technique in which minutiae
are extracted from a fingerprint and stored as sets of points in a two-dimensional plane and
then minutiae of the fingerprint to be recognized are extracted and matched with the stored
points. Minutiae matching essentially consist of finding the alignment between the template
and the input minutiae sets that result in the maximum number of minutiae pairings. Web-
based Voting System makes the system more practical and help the voter to vote from
anywhere, at any time this will solve many problems for voter. Internet use in the voting process
is very important because it easier for people to participate without any hesitation or effort. In
this paper we describe design and implementation of an web based voting system based on
fingerprint matching. Online matching is a new process introduced in Web-based voting
system.

A. Paper-Based Voting: Many people use the paper to choose their representatives through
the traditional voting systems. This method has been used since long time especially before the
advent of the internet. This method requires the presence of the person himself to the voting
place and time specified and that stands in the booth and vote to choose one of the candidates
in confidence and then put the paper in the ballot box. But this method have several
disadvantage for example the voters must go to voting station and wait in a queue to cast his
vote and in some cases, the voter is being subjected to harassment by some officials. also said
this method easily susceptible to fraud and change the vote. Furthermore, it is very difficult to
collect the ballot boxes and transported to the main center. and most importantly, the error that
may happen during the counting of votes. in addition to the high cost of process and time spent.
Well as in some countries, there are security problems may affect the functioning of the
electoral process. For example, gets a threat to the polling stations and voters, which negatively
affects co-extensive to the voters. All these reasons led to serious research to introduce e-voting
to practical life.

B. E-voting :E-voting is complete the voting process electronically, without the use of paper
and ballot boxes. The term electronic voting and also known as e-voting is a term inclusive of
many systems and methods of voting, Voting mail includes stalls closed to vote equipped with
electronic devices, software, peripherals, processing systems, equipment, tools and screens,
networks and means of communication ... etc., and sometimes includes systems, smart cards
"containing an electronic chip data by the voter," or biometric cognitive systems (a standard
vital systems that rely on measuring the physical properties that are unique to each person is
different from the other by such as fingerprint and retina and fingerprint DNA fingerprint).
 ISSUES OF PRESENT VOTING SYSTEM
Researchers in the electronic voting field havealready reached a consensus pack of
followincoreproperties that an electronic voting system should have
Accuracy:
(1) it is not possible for a vote to be altered,
(2) it is not possible for a validated vote to be eliminated from the final tally, and
(3) it is not possible for an invalid vote to be counted in the final tally.
Democracy:
(1) it permits only eligible voters to vote and,
(2) it ensures that eligible voters vote only once.
Privacy:
(1) neither authorities nor anyone else can link any ballot to the voter who cast it, and (2) no
voter can prove that he voted in a particular way.
Verifiability:
anyone can independently verify that all votes have been counted correctly.
Availability:
(1) the system works properly as long asthe poll stands ,and
(2) any voter can have access to it from the beginning to the end of the poll.
Resume Ability:
the system allows any voter who had interrupted his/her voting process to resume it restart it
while the poll stands . The existing elections were done in traditional way,using ballot, ink
and tallying the votes afterward. But this system prevents the election from being accurate.
Problems encounter the usual elections are as follows:
• It requires human participation, in tallying the votes that makes the elections time
consuming and prone to human error.
• The voter find the event boring resulting to a small number of voters.
• Deceitful election mechanism.
Web-Based Voting :
A lot of countries approved principle of voter voting from anywhere in the world with the
Internet, and be either using a PIN code up to the voter by registered mail or using an identity
card intelligent containing slice electronic data with the rest of the voter, where their contents
are read through card reader connected to your computer. Internet use in the voting process is
very important because it easier for people to participate without any hesitation or effort. We
can improve web-based voting by increase the security level of this system as we explain in
the next section.
Finger print Techniques:
Among all the biometric techniques, fingerprint-based identification is the oldest method which
has been successfully used in numerous applications, because of their uniqueness and
reliability. Usually, the fingerprint image data captured during enrolment is stored / transmitted
for 1:1(verification) and 1: N (identification) in an e-Governance application life cycle.
Fingerprint recognition is really just a type of associative memory with similarity measure [20].
Probe fingerprint on input is compared with every candidate fingerprint stored in the
associative memory, candidates are sorted by result of the similarity measure function, and the
closest match is returned. Generic associative memory is parameterized by two fingerprint-
specific functions: extraction and similarity measure. Extraction or abstraction improves
signal-to-noise ratio in input fingerprint before storing its template in associative memory.
Similarity measure function computes single value (similarity score) that represents degree of
similarity between two templates. For efficiency reasons, probe template is first indexed into
relatively large probe index containing multiple lookup tables for faster matching. Matcher
then compares candidate templates against probe index instead of probe template itself.
Extraction, indexing, and matching algorithms can be efficiently split into multi-stage pipeline
to control algorithm complexity and allow easy extension. Template extraction algorithm
constructs extraction models of the fingerprint by removing unimportant information thus
improving signal-to-noise ratio.

Flow chart for proposed design

SAMPLE CODE FOR THE WEBSITE
Fingerprint fp1 = new Fingerprint();
fp1.AsBitmapSource = new Bitmap(Bitmap.FromFile(pathToImage));
Person person = new Person();
person.Fingerprints.Add(fp);
CONCLUSION:
For over a century, fingerprints have been one of the most highly used methods for human
recognition; automated biometric systems have only been available in recent years. This work
is successfully implemented and evaluated four different models and PC based electronic
voting system under Matlab 7.5.The arrived results were significant and more comparable. It
proves the fact that the fingerprint image enhancement step will certainly improve the
verification performance of the fingerprint based recognition system.

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