ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on a simplified, low-cost and secured biometric system-based electronic voting machine from which voting data can be transmitted to a central place where counting can be done in every one hour during a voting session. Today, we all know that fake voting is still a major drawback in the elections. Although we have moved from the traditional ballot paper to Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), the problem of fake voting cannot be avoided completely. In the electronic voting system, the opinion of voters is recorded, stored, and processed digitally. However, the EVM is not capable of detecting fake voters. Even the recorded voting data can be tampered later on when the voting process is over. In our project, we tried to secure the voting process by transmitting the voting data from the EVM within one hour of casting a vote. Here, in the EVM, low-cost 12-bit counter ICs (MC14040B) are used to count the vote and parallel-in/serial-out shift registers (54F/74F676) are used to store the votes. RF multiplexers (ADG901 series) are used to multiplex the results of various candidates for wireless transmission.
