Fingerprint Voting System Using Arduino

Introduction

General Introduction

Elections were a defining feature of democratic government, an electoral system is the set of rules that determines how elections and referendums were conducted and how their results were determined. Political electoral systems were organized by governments, while non-political elections may take place in business, non-profit organizations and informal organizations.

There were so many electoral system in world. That were paper ballots, punch cards, Optical Mark Sense Ballots and etc.

Some electoral systems elect a single winner to a unique position, such as prime minister, president or governor, while others elect multiple winners, such as members of parliament or boards of directors. The study of formally defined electoral methods is called social choice theory or voting theory, and this study can take place within the field of political science, economics, or mathematics, and specifically within the subfields of game theory and mechanism design. Impossibility proofs such as Arrow's impossibility theorem demonstrate that it is impossible to design a "perfect" electoral method, so academic comparisons of proposed methods typically involve mathematical voting criteria.

The fingerprint voting system is an electronic voting machine using human biometric system. It’s reduce the staff and polling time from paper voting system.

Objective of the project

Our fingerprint voting project demands the user to submit Fingerprint at the polling booth. The project uses the Fingerprint technology and Arduino Systems to design this application. The main objective of this project is to design a system that asks to user to show his/her Fingerprint as an identity proof. The system reads the data from the Fingerprint and verifies the current data with the already stored data in the database. If the given detail 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.