CHADALAWADA RAMANAMMA ENGINEERING COLLEGE

(UGC -AUTONOMOUS)
Approved By AICTE , Accredited by NAAC with ‘A’ Grade, Affiliated to JNTUA
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM USING FINGERPRINT

AND GSM

Final Review
Project Part I
21.02.2023
PRESENTED BY (Batch No.: A2)
Under the Guidance of
G.JAYA PRAKASH - 19P11A0422
B.PAVITRA - 19P11A0410 Dr. Y. MURALI MOHAN BABU
G.GOKUL - 19P11A0430 Professor
G.PAVAN KUMAR - 19P11A0432
CONTENTS
 Abstract
 Objectives
 Introduction
 Literature Survey
 Proposed Method
 Tools Required
 Tools description
 Steps followed to Implement project
 Advantages and disadvantages
 Applications
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 References
ABSTRACT
Here we are aiming to design and development of an Electronic Voting Machine
(EVM) Authentication using Biometric Information. Here finger print is used as the
Biometric information. The suggested fingerprint voting system allows the user to scan
his/her fingerprint, in order to check his eligibility by comparing his current fingerprint
with the one already stored in the systems database, this project is designed using
ARDUINO microcontroller and other associated peripheral like GSM module, Finger
print module, LCD etc. Once the users complete the identification process, they will be
allowed to cast their vote using friendly geographical user interface. The counting of
the votes will be immediately and that makes the voting process efficient, fast, and
secure. The GSM communication which gives the feedback to the voter just after they
cast their vote.

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OBJECTIVES
 The main objective of the project is to use fingerprint scanner
for authentication purpose so that we can reduce fake votes and
also reduce the polling time.

 The objective of the project is to reduce fake voting and make

the process transparent.

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INTRODUCTION
 It is quite familiar with Electronic Voting Machines, where the vote gets registered
electronically and don’t need to use ballot paper to vote in election.
 Today security is a major concern, and it also needs to be ensured that someone can’t
vote twice, so this problem can be solved by introducing Fingerprint Based Voting,
where a person can be authorized based on his fingerprint. This will also stop fake
voting.
 In this project, a fingerprint module is used for enrolment and authentication purpose,
and it is connected with Arduino uno. LCD display is used for interaction with voters.
 Voters need to act according to it. Switching keys are used at the time of enrolment
and authentication. Buzzer are used for better understanding with the system.

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INTRODUCTION (Contd…)
 In all the countries, votes decides the future. For that, we are introducing the new
method of voting system to increase the standard of living.
 According to the current system, votes could be counted manually so that there is
more opportunity for occurring error, such as duplicates counting and completely
mixed counting.
 Sometimes votes are even manipulated and motivated by political patios which lead
to inaccurate vote and it will distort the results of an election in favor of certain
candidates.
 This device can be useful for easy to handle, reliability and accurate.

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LITERATURE SURVEY
Paper Published
Title of the paper
number Year

Paper 1 2022 Smart Electronic Voting Machine Using Raspberry Pi

Paper 2 2019 Design and Fabrication of an Electronic Voting Machine

Paper 3 2018 Smart Electronic Voting Machine

Paper 4 2018 Fingerprint-Based Electronics Voting Machine

Paper 5 2017 Implementation of Aadhar Card Based EVM Machine with GSM Module.

Paper 6 2017 User Friendly Aadhar based Electronic Voting Machine using ARM7.

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LITERATURE SURVEY
Paper Published
Title of the paper
number Year

Paper 7 2017 Online Voting System Using Biometric Verification.

Paper 8 2016 Biometrics using Electronic Voting System with Embedded Security.

Paper 9 2016 A Survey on Secured E-Voting System Using Biometric..

RFID and Fingerprint Recognition based Electronic Voting System for

Paper 10 2014
Real Time Application .

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PAPER-1
Mrs. Spoorthi S P, Mr. Abdul Azeem, Mr. Arjun HN, Mr. Gowrish R, Mr. Karthik L, “SMART
ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE USING RASPBERRY Pi”, International Journal of Scientific Development
and Research , Volume No. 7, Issue No. 1, 2455-2631, 2022.
Description:
• The main aspect of the democracy of a nation is the VOTE by which people elect their
favorite candidate to rule the nation. Intervention in illegal practices will lead the nation into
the wrong hands. There are several methods adopted by the government to avoid crimes
during voting.
• For giving additional security face recognition technique is added which captures an image of
the voter and matches it with the stored in the database. This secured verification process
prevents proxies, political party intervention, and other criminal activities during the Election
Day.
Advantages:
• High security,
• Face recognition is there
• No one tamper
Disadvantages:
• The democracy of any nation lies in VOTE the people cast to elect their leaders. But this
system despite high security is still suffering
• Various issues mainly during the verification process and the manpower requirement during
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PAPER-2
Arif Ahamed, Mohammad Shahadat Hossain, Rocky Chakma, Md. Mahfujur Rahman,
“Design and Fabrication of an Electronic Voting Machine”, International Journal of
Control System and Control Instrumentation, Volume No. 5, Issue No.3, 17-24, 2019.
Description:
• This paper is designed to save time, eradicate the compressibility of the traditional
voting system as well as to make the e-voting system fair, unique, and eligible, and
increase security. People, who can’t afford to go to their registered vote centers, can
submit their vote for their area’s candidate from any vote center by using this system.
• This system is mainly based on fingerprint, which is a unique system for security and
to eradicate vote manipulation. This paper is most helpful to those who stay in a
different state, to detect false voters and it can easily show the result. If this system is
used in a national election, people can get more scope to submit their valuable votes. It
was tested and implemented successfully on those issues.
Advantages:
• To reduce the complexity of the voting system
• To avoid false voting
• To facilitate voters to submit their vote from any vote center
Disadvantages:
• More time taken
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• Cost is high 10
PAPER-3
G. Saranya, R. Mahalakshmi, J. Ramprabu, “Smart Electronic Voting Machine”, International
Journal Engineering and Advanced Technology, Volume No. 8, Issue No. 2S, 2249 – 8958, 2018.

Description:
• This paper is indented to verify the candidate by using a unique password fingerprint
using an ARM7 microcontroller and their basic detail by RFID tag. ARM7 processor is
simple and mostly used for the implementation of new idea which is integrated with
the fingerprint sensor.
• RFID uses radio frequency for communication to transmit and receive basic details.
Hence, the project is providing additional security by ensuring complete proof of the
conversational system to select the representative for our democratic country.
Advantages:
• It permits only eligible voters to vote.
• The voters are identified manually which results in duplication of votes.
• Less time taken
Disadvantages:
• Cost is high
• Less accuracy
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• Less security 11
PAPER-4
Debojyoti Ghosh, Anushka Banerjee, Pratik Ranjan Roy Chowdhuri, Ankur Sen Gupta,
Barnasha Pal, Sahana Khatun“FINGERPRINT BASED ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE”,
International Journal of Engineering Science and Computing, Volume No. 3, Issue No.
5, 2456-4184, 2018.
Description:
• This paper is about an IoT-based voting machine with fingerprint verification. The main aim of
this project is to make voting secure using fingerprint verification and also to reduce
malpractices. The details of the voter along with their fingerprint are stored in the database. If
the fingerprint matches with the stored fingerprint, the system checks the Aadhar number of the
user and if authenticated, it checks if multiple votes have been cast
• The Paper’s main aim is to develop an application that seeks to use various stages of security
authentication to enhance the electioneering process for staff elections using the case study,
ultimately providing the best platform that enables all eligible voters to exercise their franchise
from a particular location during the election period.
Advantages:
• It is economical.
• Less man power required.
• Time conscious.
Disadvantages:
• It a chance to tamper vote
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• More time to cast 12
PAPER-5
Jitendra Waghamare, Dhananjay Manusmare, Bhagyashri Dongre, Manisha Bannagare,
Shreya Chahande and Kunal Sontakke “Implementation of Aadhar Card Based EVM
Machine with GSM Module”, International Journal of Engineering Science and
Computing, Volume No. 7, Issue No.3, 5452-5455, 2017.
Description:
• Persistent with the prevalent trends, the paper deals with AADHAR CARD-based
voting system. Aadhar records being valid ID proof is expected to be updated in the
national database together with the corresponding finger scratches.
• At the time of voting, data is received from a fingerprint scanner and compared
with the AADHAR CARD database fingerprint. After casting vote or completing of
vote GSM send a conformation massage on the voter’s mobile
Advantages:
• It permits only eligible voters to vote and it ensures that eligible voters vote only
once
• No one can tamper with the ballot before the declaration of the result.
Disadvantages:
• Valid Id proof needed
• Take more time to cast a vote 13
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• Cost is high
PAPER-6
V Syam Babu, A L Siridhara, R Karthik Koppula, Srinivasa Rao, G Bhavana and K H
Murali, “User Friendly Aadhar based Electronic Voting Machine using ARM7”,
International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology, Volume No. 8, Issue No. 7,
214-218, 2017.
Description:
• This paper will attempt to solve the problem of bogus voting with the help of fingerprint
scanner and Microcontroller which will be convenient for every citizen at the polling
booth.
• Citizens have to place their finger in fingerprint sensor. When it is matched with the
stored fingerprints, then we can go to the voting process. Supervisor can know the
details of voting and a GSM modem is interfaced to send SMS to the corresponding
authority
Advantages:
• Improved accuracy in evolution of result
• Improved accessibility for users
• Improved transparency
• Voting by illegal voters can be prevented
Disadvantages:
• ARM Controller is used.
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• Performance is low 14
PAPER-7
M.N. Annadate, Shreyans Sunil Gandhi, Nivita Ravi Kaniampal and Pushkar SatishNaral,
"Online Voting System Using Biometric Verification”, International Journal of Advanced
Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, Volume No. 6, Issue No. 4,
276-281, 2017.
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PAPER-8
Vakiti Mounika and S.A.Muzeer “Biometrics using Electronic Voting System with
Embedded Security”, International Journal of Scientific Development and Research,
Volume No. 1, Issue No. 10, 241-250, 2016.
Description:
• This paper will attempt to solve the problem of bogus voting with the help of fingerprint
scanner and Microcontroller which will be convenient for every citizen at the polling
booth.
• Citizens have to place their finger in fingerprint sensor. When it is matched with the
stored fingerprints, then we can go to the voting process. Supervisor can know the
details of voting and a GSM modem is interfaced to send SMS to the corresponding
authority
Advantages:
• Improved accuracy in evaluation of result
• Improved accessibility for users
• Improved transparency
• Voting by illegal voters can be prevented
Disadvantages:
• ARM Controller is used.
• Performance is low
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• Difficult to design 16
PAPER-9
Trupti Umakant Pavshere and S.V.More, “A Survey on Secured E-Voting System Using
Biometric”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Engineering and
Technology , Volume No. 3, Issue No. 3 , 1700-1705, 2016.
Description:
• The controller compares this data with the already existing data stored during
the registration of the voters. If the data matches with the prestored
information of the registered fingerprint, the person is allowed to cast his vote.
If not, a warning message is displayed on LCD and the person is barred from
polling his vote.
• The vote casting mechanism is carried out manually using the push buttons.
LCD is used to display the related messages, warnings and ensuing results
Advantages:
• To detect Alcoholic person who tries to enter into polling booth
• Especially for safe and secure voting machine
Disadvantages:
• E-Voting system is used
• Difficult to design
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• Cost is high
PAPER-10
Ashok Nalluri, B. Bhanu Teja and A.Balakrishna, "RFID and Fingerprint Recognition
based Electronic Voting System for Real-Time Application”, Volume No. 2, Issue No. 4,
3850-3854, 2014.

Description:
• This paper focuses on sophisticated voting system using RFID and
Fingerprint technologies to ensure unique casting.
• RFID acts as a substitute for voter ID and the Fingerprint sensor data
generates an alert depicting mismatches. Keypad is used for selecting the
voting preferences. LCD is used to display the corresponding data for each
key to the user
Advantages:
• It permits only eligible voters to vote, and it ensure that eligible voters
vote only once
• No one can tamper the ballot before declaration of result.
Disadvantages:
• Valid Id proof needed
• Take more time to cast vote 18
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PROPOSED METHOD
 The system aims at developing a fingerprint based advanced Electronic Voting
Machine (EVM) which helps in free and fair way of conducting elections which are
basis for democratic country like India.
 This project consists of following units a Voting system, fingerprint module and
Arduino controller Unit. The voter first puts his finger on the fingerprint module
which checks for the authentication of the user.
 If the voter is the authenticated one, he will now poll his vote in the voting system by
simply pressing button against his favorite leader through a button. The control unit
consists of a Arduino controller, push button for different operations of EVM.
 The votes casted for particular candidate in that particular section of constituency is
shown through an LCD display. To perform this intelligent task, Arduino controller is
loaded with an intelligent program written in embedded “C” language.

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PROPOSED METHOD (Contd.)
 First of all, user needs to enroll finger of voters with the help of push buttons/keys. To

do this user need to press ENROLL key and then finger will be a store.. Now user

needs to put his finger over finger print module.

 Now finger print module takes an image and converts it into templates and stores it by

selected ID into the finger print module’s memory.

 The voter will be registered and he/she can vote. By same method all the voter can be

registered into the system. Now if the user wants to remove or delete any of stored ID

then he/she need to press DEL key, after pressing DEL key, select ID that to be deleted.

 The user needs to select ID and press OK key (same DEL key). Now LCD will let you

know that finger has been deleted successfully.

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PROPOSED BLOCK DIAGRAM

Figure1: Block Diagram of Proposed method

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TOOLS REQUIRED
 HARDWARE REQIREMENTS:
• Arduino Microcontroller
• Power supply
• LCD Display
• Finger Print Module
• Buzzer
• Push Button Switches
• GSM Mod

 SOFTWARE REQIREMENTS:
• Arduino IDE
• Embedded C Language

 Operating Systems:
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• Windows 7/10
ADVANTAGES
 Less time required for voting & counting
 Avoids invalid voting as it prevents unregistered voters from
voting.
 Ease of transportation due to its compact size.
 Convenient on the part of voter.
 This system allows only authenticated voting than the existing
equipment as the person is identified based on his Fingerprint
which is unique to each individual.
 Low power consumption
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DISADVANTAGES

 At that time signals are weak it is difficult to get OTP for

authentication.
 Little bit of time taken to cast their vote.
 Aadhar link mobile number is needed at the time of casting
their vote.
 Elder people face difficulty to cast their vote.

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APPLICATIONS
 This project can be used as a voting machine to prevent rigging, during the
elections in the polling booths.
 Fast track voting which could be used in small scale elections, like resident
welfare association, “panchayet” level election and other society level
elections, where results can be instantaneous.
 It could also be used to conduct opinion polls during annual shareholders
meeting.
 It could also be used to conduct general assembly elections where number
of candidates are less than or equal to eight in the current situation, on a
small-scale basis.

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REFERENCES
[1] Mrs. Spoorthi S P, Mr. Abdul Azeem, Mr. Arjun HN, Mr. Gowrish R, Mr. Karthik L,
“SMART ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE USING RASPBERRY Pi”, International
Journal of Scientific Development and Research, Volume No. 7, Issue No. 1, 2455-2631,
2022.

[2] Arif Ahamed, Mohammad Shahadat Hossain, Rocky Chakma, Md. Mahfujur Rahman,
“Design and Fabrication of an Electronic Voting Machine”, International Journal of
Control System and Control Instrumentation, Volume No. 5, Issue No. 3, 17-24, 2019.

[3] G. Saranya, R. Mahalakshmi, J. Ramprabu, “Smart Electronic Voting Machine”,

International Journal Engineering and Advanced Technology, Volume No.8, Issue No. 2S,
2249 – 8958, 2018.

[4] Debojyoti Ghosh, Anushka Banerjee, Pratik Ranjan Roy Chowdhuri, Ankur Sen Gupta,
Barnasha Pal, Sahana Khatun“FINGERPRINT BASED ELECTRONIC VOTING
MACHINE”, International Journal of Engineering Science and Computing, Volume No. 3,
Issue No. 5, 2456-4184, 2018. 26
REFERENCES
[5]. Jitendra Waghamare, Dhananjay Manusmare, Bhagyashri Dongre, Manisha
Bannagare, Shreya Chahande and Kunal Sontakke “Implementation of Aadhar
Card Based EVM Machine with GSM Module”, International Journal of
Engineering Science and Computing, Volume No. 7, Issue No.3, 5452-5455,
2017.

[6]. V Syam Babu, A L Siridhara, R Karthik Koppula, Srinivasa Rao, G Bhavana

and K H Murali “User Friendly Aadhar based Electronic Voting Machine using
ARM7” International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology , Volume 8,
Issue 7, 214-218, 2017.

[7] M.N. Annadate, Shreyans Sunil Gandhi, Nivita Ravi Kaniampal and Pushkar
SatishNaral, "Online Voting System Using Biometric Verification”
International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication
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REFERENCES (Contd.)
[8] Vakiti Mounika and S.A.Muzeer “Biometrics using Electronic Voting System

with Embedded Security” IJSDR, Volume 1, Issue 10, 241-250, 2016.

[9] Trupti Umakant Pavshere and S.V.More, “A Survey on Secured E-Voting

System Using Biometric”, International Journal of Advanced Research in

Science, Engineering and Technology , Vol. 3, Issue 3 , 1700-1705, 2016.

[10] Ashok Nalluri, B. Bhanu Teja and A.Balakrishna, "RFID and Fingerprint

Recognition based Electronic Voting System for Real Time Application”,

Volume 2, Issue 4, 3850-3854, 2014.

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