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Biometric Based Electronic Voting Machine Using

Raspberry PI
S.Arulventhan, M.Sivalingam, N.Vishnu., B.E.(EEE).,4th year,
Mr. N.Purushothaman.,
Asst.Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics engineering, Krishnasamy college of Engineering and
Technology,Cuddalore.

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Submitted: 10-03-2021 Revised: 30-03-2021 Accepted: 01-04-2021
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ABSTRACT: India is world’s largest democracy transmission to servers, and consolidation and
and the essence of any democracy lies in the fact tabulation of election results.Biometrics is the
that people choose their own representatives. But in science and technology of measuring and analyzing
present era, the fair election process is facing a lot biological data. Biometrics refers to technologies
of problems like booth capturing, rigging, fake that measure and analyze human body
voting, tampering with the Electronic Voting characteristics, such as DNA, fingerprints, eye
Machines (EVMs) etc. Being responsible retinas and irises, voice patterns, facial patterns and
engineers, it’s our duty to do something to curb this hand measurements, for authentication purposes.
menace. Today authenticity of the voter is a big The field of biometrics was formed and has since
concern and it also should be made sure that a same expanded on to many types of physical
voter is not able to vote two times. This issue can identification. Among the several human
be dealt with by introducing biometric based voting fingerprints remain a very common identifier and
system, where the authenticity of a voter is the biometric method of choice among law
established based on fingerprints. This shall enforcement.
facilitate all the voters to get registered on the
portal automatically, which can be classified on the DRAWBACKS
basis of regions and constituencies based on their Elections are a defining feature of
unique identification i.e. their finger prints. This democratic government, but all too frequently, we
shall enable the device developed in the present take the actual mechanics of the election for
research work, at the national level of application granted. We speak at length of such issues as who
by using it in elections conducted around the is allowed to vote, how campaigns are conducted,
country. This shall lead to a significant contribution and how they are financed, but no one gives
for the betterment of the Indian election system. priority to the understanding of the actual voting
Keywords:Aadhaar,Raspberrypi, process. The EVMs are now manufactured by the
Biometrics,EVM,Fingerprint scanning,fake above two undertakings. An EVM consists of two
voting,Rigging,UIDAI. units, i) Control Unit, ii)Balloting Unit. The two
units are joined by a five-meter cable. The Control
I. INTRODUCTION Unit is with the Presiding Officer or a Polling
Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) Officer and the Balloting Unit is placed inside the
is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or voting compartment. It ensures that vote casting
take care of casting and counting votes. Depending cannot be altered by unauthorized person. The
on the particular implementation, e-voting may use voter authentication in online e-voting process can
standalone electronic voting machines (also called be done by formal registration through
EVM) or computers connected to the Internet. It administrators and by entering OTP Certificate. In
may encompass a range of Internet services, from Offline e-voting process authentication can be done
basic transmission of tabulated results to full- using facial recognization, fingerprint sensing and
function online voting through common RFID(smart cards) which enables the electronic
connectable household devices. The degree ballot reset for allowing voters to cast their votes.
of automation may be limited to marking a paper Also the voted data and voters details can be sent to
ballot, or may be a comprehensive system of vote the nearby Database Administration unit in a timely
input, vote recording, data encryption and manner using GSM System with cryptography

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technique. The criteria are Registration through voters (in this code max limit of the voter is 25)
Administrator, Voter identification and verification with the help of push buttons/keys. To do this user
process is done through GSM with one time need to press ENROLL key and then LCD asks for
password. The second Offline e-voting process entering Enrollment ID where finger will be a
includes Facial Reorganization; Fingerprint store, Now LCD will ask for placing finger over
sensing, RFID and Polling data processing using the finger print module. Now user needs to put his
Cryptography Technique with RC4 Algorithm. The finger over finger print module. Then LCD will ask
final process concludes the analysis of polling data to remove the finger from finger print module and
in real time and immediate resulting system of e- again ask for placing the finger. Now user needs to
voting system put his finger again over finger print module. Now
 Complex voting procedure finger print module takes an image and converts it
 More time to vote into templates and stores it by selected ID in to the
 Expensive to test, complete tests are extremely finger print module’s memory.
rare
 Expensive to move and store ADVANTAGES
 Difficult to test 1. The system is highly reliable, tamper-proof and
 Complex to maintain secure.
 Far from secure against vote fraud. 2. In the long run the maintenance cost is very less
when compared to the present systems.
PROPOSED SYSTEM 3. Illegal practices like rigging in elections can be
In the proposed system, We Endeavour to checked for.
improve the easy usage of the voting machine with 4. It is possible to get instantaneous results and
authentication and an acknowledgement slip will with high accuracy.
provide for every polling which occurs. And a 5. This unique fingerprint voter ID card can be
fingerprint reader touch screen is used to give input used for Identification purpose in Govt. /Semi-
so it is so highly easy to overcome the button Govt. bodies E.g.: When applying Passport,
problem. Initially, the User needs to enroll finger or Driving license, etc.

BLOCK DIAGRAM:

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RASPBERRY PI Foundation to promote teaching of basic computer

Raspberry Pi 3 B+ is one of the most science in schools and in developing countries. The
popular controllers in industry. It is like a original model became far more popular than
minicomputer which consists of the USB port, anticipated, selling outside its target market for
input-output pins, Wi-Fi port, HDMI port, SD card uses such as robotics. It does not include
reader and much more functionality. peripherals (such as keyboards and mice)
The Raspberry Pi is a series of and cases. However, some accessories have been
small single-board computers developed in included in several official and unofficial bundles.
the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi

RASPBIAN OPERATING SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS:

NOOBS (New Out Of Box) is an easy  Quad Core 1.2GHz Broadcom BCM2837 64bit
operating system installed which contains raspbian CPU
and LibreELEC. It also provides a selection of  1GB RAM
alternative OS which is then downloaded from the  BCM43438 wireless LAN and Bluetooth Low
internet and installed. Energy (BLE) on board
 100 Base Ethernet
OPENCV  40-pin extended GPIO
OpenCV can be interfaced with python for  4 USB 2 ports
image processing. It is mainly aimed at real-time
 4 Pole stereo output and composite video port
computer vision. It is written in python and its
 Full size HDMI
primary interface in python, OpenCV has also
supported programming language such as python,  CSI camera port for connecting a Raspberry Pi
camera
java, MATLAB and here we are using OpenCV
python.  DSI display port for connecting a Raspberry Pi
touch screen display
 Micro SD port for loading your operating
system and storing data

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 Upgraded switched Micro USB power source  Low power consumption, low cost, small size,
up to 2.5A excellent performance
 Professional optical technology, precise
POWER SUPPLY module manufacturing techniques
A power supply is an electrical device that  Good image processing capabilities, can
supplies electric power to an electrical load. The successfully capture image up to resolution
primary function of a power supply is to 500 dpi
convert electric current from a source to the
correct voltage, current, and frequency to power the BUZZER:
load. As a result, power supplies are sometimes A buzzer or beeper is an audio signaling
referred to as electric power converters. Some device, which may be mechanical,
power supplies are separate standalone pieces of electromechanical, or piezoelectric (piezo for
equipment, while others are built into the load short). Typical uses of buzzers and beepers
appliances that they power. Examples of the latter include alarm devices, timers, and confirmation of
include power supplies found in desktop user input such as a mouse click or keystroke.
computers and consumer electronics devices.
PUSH BUTTON:
FINGER PRINT MODULE: A push-button (also spelled pushbutton) or
This is a finger print sensor module with simply button is a simple switch mechanism for
TTL UART interface for direct connections to controlling some aspect of a machine or a process.
microcontroller UART or to PC through MAX232 / Buttons are typically made out of hard material,
USB-Serial adapter. The user can store the finger usually plastic or metal.[1] The surface is usually
print data in the module and can configure it in 1:1 flat or shaped to accommodate the human finger or
or 1: N mode for identifying the person. The FP hand, so as to be easily depressed or pushed.
module can directly interface with 3v3 or 5v Buttons are most often biased switches, although
Microcontroller. A level converter (like MAX232) many un-biased buttons (due to their physical
is required for interfacing with PC serial port. nature) still require a spring to return to their un-
Optical biometric fingerprint reader with pushed state. Terms for the "pushing" of a button
great features and can be embedded into a variety include pressing, depressing, mashing, slapping, hit
of end products, such as: access control, ting, and punching.
attendance, safety deposit box, car door locks.
Store the data in Raspberry Pi:
Features Store the data of Voter ID linked with Aadhaar to
 Integrated image collecting and algorithm chip the Raspberry pi.
together, ALL-in-One
 Fingerprint reader can conduct secondary
development, can be embedded into a variety
of end products

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II. CONCLUSION
The proposed system the fingerprint-based
secured voting mechanism, it safe to say that, this
system has managed to overcome most of the
problems faced during the voting period by EVM
system. The efficiency of the system depends on
the User Interface design and the flexibility that it
provides as well as the usability for it. This ensures
a safer voting method which is totally required for
the healthy growth of a developing nation. In this
paper, the proposed online voting system using
biometrics that is the fingerprint scanner is better
and faster than the previous system.

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