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Fingerprint Based Voting System Using IOT

Anushka Fase1, Dipali Masal1, Snehal Gurav1, Gaurakka Umarani1, K. I. Chouhan2
1UG Students, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SVERI’s College of Engineering, Pandharpur,
Maharashtra, India
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, SVERI’s College of Engineering
Pandharpur, Maharashtra India

ARTICLEINFO ABSTRACT

The “Fingerprint Voting System[3] Using IOT” is an innovative approach to

Article History:
enhancing the security, reliability, and efficiency of the voting process. This
Accepted : 10 Nov 2024 system integrates biometric fingerprint recognition with IOT (Internet of
Published: 27 Nov 2024 Things) technology to create a secure, user-friendly, and tamper-proof voting
mechanism. Traditional voting systems are often vulnerable to identity fraud,
ballot manipulation, and delays in result compilation. By leveraging fingerprint
Publication Issue biometrics, the system ensures that each voter can only cast one vote, thereby
Volume 10, Issue 6 eliminating the possibility of voter fraud and multiple voting. The system
November-December-2024 operates as follows: each voter is required to authenticate their identity through
fingerprint scanning before accessing the voting platform. The fingerprint data is
Page Number matched with a pre-existing voter database to verify eligibility. Once
888-894 authenticated, the voter is granted access to the digital ballot system, where they
can securely cast their vote. The IOT component connects the voting terminals
to a centralized server over a secure network, ensuring real-time data
transmission and immediate updates to the voting status.
Keywords: IoT, fingerprint Authentication, voting system, biometric
security, real-time data processing, secure elections.

Introduction voting terminals to central the user-friendly interface

The Fingerprint Voting System[3] Using IOT offers a makes the voting process smooth and accessible for all
revolutionary way to streamline and secure the voting voters, while the elimination of paper ballots and
process by integrating biometric authentication with manual processes helps reduce the cost and
IOT technology. This system ensures voter identity complexity of elections. By improving both the
verification[6] using fingerprint integrity and scalability of elections, this system is an
recognition, allowing only authorized individuals to ideal solution for modern democracies seeking to
cast their votes. The IOT infrastructure connects ensure fair, secure, and efficient voting processes. The

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Fingerprint Voting System Using IoT is a modern impersonation. By integrating IoT devices, the system
solution aimed at revolutionizing the electoral process facilitates real-time monitoring, data collection, and
by integrating biometric authentication[8] with the secure transmission of votes, promoting transparency
Internet of Things (IoT). This system uses fingerprint and integrity throughout the election. Additionally,
recognition to ensure voter identity, allowing only the use of fingerprint biometrics[5] offers tamperproof
eligible voters to cast their ballots securely. Once mechanism for voter identification, while IoT
authenticated, voters can submit their votes connectivity enables remote voting, making the
electronically through an IoT-enabled infrastructure system more flexible and scalable. Ultimately, the goal
that ensures real- time data transmission to a central is to create a reliable, scalable, and user-friendly
server. This approach minimizes voter fraud, platform that can be adapted to various types of
eliminates the need for paper ballots, and enables elections, ensuring accuracy, security, and greater
faster, more accurate vote counting, improving both accessibility for voters. 1. Vernekar et al. (2020)
the security and efficiency of elections. presents an exploration of blockchain technology for
developing a secure, transparent, and cost-efficient e-
Literature Survey voting system, addressing technical, legal, and
The fingerprint voting system utilizing IoT security challenges in its implementation [11].
technology represents an innovative approach to
enhance electoral security and efficiency. By Problem Statement
combining biometric verification[8] with real-time The current voting systems face challenges such as
data processing, these systems aim to ensure voter voter impersonation, fraud, errors, and limited
authenticity and minimize electoral fraud. Recent accessibility, undermining the integrity and trust in
studies demonstrate the effectiveness of fingerprint elections. Traditional methods are also time-
biometrics in identifying eligible voters, while IoT consuming and prone to mistakes, while real-time
facilitates real time monitoring and centralized data monitoring and transparent auditing are often lacking.
management. However, challenges remain, This project aims to address these issues by developing
particularly concerning data privacy, system a "Fingerprint Based Voting System Using IoT,"[1]
reliability, and public acceptance. Future research is which combines biometric authentication with IoT
needed to address these issues, explore advanced technology to create a secure, efficient, and accessible
security protocols,and assess the integration of voting process. The system will enhance voter
technologies like blockchain to further secure the identification, prevent fraud, improve transparency,
voting process. and offer remote voting capabilities, ensuring a more
reliable and trusted electoral process.
Objectives
The objective of the "Fingerprint Based Voting System Methodology
Using IoT"[3] is to develop a secure, efficient, and 1. To enhance the security of the voting process by
accessible voting system that combines biometric utilizing biometricfingerprint authentication,
fingerprint recognition with Internet of Things (IoT) ensuring only eligible voters can participate, and
technology to streamline the election process. This preventing voter impersonation and multiple
system aims to enhance voter authentication and voting:Enhancing the security of the voting
ensure that only eligible individuals can cast their process through biometric fingerprint
votes, eliminating the risks of fraud and authentication[7] is essential for maintaining the

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integrity of elections. This technology effectively plays a critical role in protecting voter
prevents voter impersonation by verifying the information and ballot data from unauthorized
identity of each voter, ensuring that individuals access or tampering. By employing strong
are who they claim to be. Moreover, it encryption methods, election authorities can
significantly reduces the risk of multiple voting safeguard sensitive data throughout the voting
by ensuring that each registered voter can only process, from voter registration to ballot
cast a single vote, thereby mitigating electoral submission and counting. This encryption
fraud. By requiring voters to register their ensures that only authorized personnel can access
fingerprints ahead of time, biometric systems and manipulate the data, significantly reducing
ensure that only eligible individuals participate in the risk of cyber threats and fraud. Moreover,
the electoral process. The implemen- tation of encrypted[9] data can maintain its confidentiality
this technology not only boosts voter confidence and integrity, providing voters with confidence
in the electoral system through increased security that their information is secure and that their
and transparency but also streamlines the voting votes will be ac- curately counted. Additionally,
process, making it more efficient. advanced encryption can facilitate secure
2. To improve the efficiency of elections by communication between voting machines and
leveraging IoT technology for real- time vote centralized databases, further enhancing the
transmission and centralized data storage, overall security of the electoral process. By
enabling faster and more accurate vote counting prioritizing encryption, election officials can
and result tabulation:Improving election create a robust framework that not only protects
efficiency using IoT technology can significantly voter privacy but also upholds the credibility and
enhance the voting process by enabling real-time trans- parency of elections, ultimately fostering
vote transmission and centralized data storage. public trust in the democratic process.
IoT technology can facilitate the development of 4. To reduce the operational costs of elections by
secure and efficient voting systems, allowing for eliminating the need for paper ballots, manual
the rapid transmission of votes to a central vote counting, and extensive polling staff, making
location for corting and tabulation. This approach the election process more economical and
can reduce the time and effort required for resource-efficient:Reducing the operational costs
manual vote counting, minimizing the risk of of elections is a crucial objective that can be
human error and increasing the accuracy of achieved by eliminating the need for paper
election results. Furthermore, IoT technology can ballots, manual vote counting, and extensive
provide real-time monitoring and tracking of polling staff. Transitioning to digital voting
votes, enabling election officials to quickly systems can significantly decrease expenses
identify and address any issues that may arise associated with printing, distributing, and
during the voting process. securely storing paper ballots. Additionally,
3. To ensure the integrity of elections by automated vote counting technologies can
implementing advanced encryption tech- niques streamline the tallying process, minimizing the
to protect voter information and ballot data from labor costs as- sociated with manual counting and
unauthorized access or tampering: Ensuring the reducing the potential for human error. By
integrity of elections is paramount, and leveraging technology, election authorities can
implementing advanced encryption techniques also optimize staffing needs, requiring fewer

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personnel to manage polling places and oversee In the above all hardware's are connected together to
the voting process. This not only lowers labor laptop through USB. That’s power is on.
costs but also allows for more efficient resource The proposed method for a Fingerprint- Based
allocation. Furthermore, the reduction of phys- Biometric Smart Electronic Voting System using
ical materials and personnel can contribute to a IoT[4] holds profound significance from a technical
more environmentally friendly election process. standpoint. The integration of finger- print biometric
Overall, by embracing digital solutions, elections introduces a robust and reliable method for voter
can become more economical and resource- authentication, leveraging the uniqueness of
efficient, enabling governments to allocate funds fingerprints to ensure high accuracy and security.
to other critical areas while maintaining the This not only reduces the vulnerability to identity
integrity and accessibility of the electoral process. fraud but also establishes a solid foundation for the
5. To increase voter accessibility and participation system’s overall integrity. In the realm of IoT, the
by providing a userfriendly interface and real-time functionality significantly enhances the
streamlined voting process, reducing wait responsiveness and efficiency of the system Once the
times,and ensuring a smoother voting experience count is set to a unique number get Fingerprint Enroll
for all citizens.Increasing voter accessibility and () code function is called inside
participation is a vital objective that can be
achieved by providing a user-friendly[4]
interface and streamlined voting process. By
leveraging technology, election authorities can
create intuitive and accessible voting systems that
cater to diverse needs, including those of citizens
with disabilities. A well-designed interface can
guide voters through the voting process, reducing
confusion and anxiety, and enabling them to cast
their ballots with confidence. Moreover, digital Fig: 2 Displayed Message
voting systems can significantly reduce wait
times, allowing citizens. Enroll function to store finger being scanned in sensor
to a location inside senor memory with the integer
Results value as selected before. Under the execution of the
code for enrolment, first the number of finger id is
displayed as set before and user is instructed to place
finger in the sensor by popup message in LCD. If the
image is not read properly user is re-instructed to
place finger. Once the image is taken, the image is
analyzed using finger. getImage function as provided
in ADA fruit library. Finally, after these procedures
the image of finger as scanned by the scanner is
converted into templates and stored as integer value
in the R307 module[10], the system is designed to
Fig:1 Circuit Diagram
give access to the user registered as described above.

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3. improved Transparency:
The voting records are securely stored and can be
audited, making the election process transparent.
Integrating blockchain could further enhance
transparency by creating an immutable and publicly
verifiable ledger of votes.

4. Reduced Vter Fraud:

Fig:3 Voter ID The use of fingerprint biometrics ensures that each
voter is accurately identified, reducing the chances of
The eligibility of a voter to vote is limited to only one double voting or voter impersonation. Voter data can
time for one voting session, as the system is designed also be validated against government databases for
to deny multiple voting by aborting access to vote for additional security.
the same finger image more than once. The portion of
the code that checks the status of voter either has 5. Cost-Effective:
already voted or not is defined inside the void loop. The automation of voter registration, identification,
The status is monitored by flag register, when the and vote counting reduces the need for manual labor
vote is casted the flag is assigned to 0 integer, so if the and decreases administrative costs. The system also
same user tries to vote for second time the flag value minimizes errors, which reduces the need for costly
is evaluated before authorizing vote access to vote, recounts or legal challenges.
and if flag has value 1, the procedure is aborted. Thus,
the authenticity of the system is maintained. Fig 6.3 6. Faster Vote Counting and Result Declaration:
message (voting denied) Also, if a person whose Votes are recorded in real-time, speeding up the vote
fingerprint is not registered in the system tries to vote counting process. This enables faster result
the message 'Finger Not Found Try Later' is displayed declaration and more efficient election management.
in LCD screen[8]. Thus, the person is barred from
voting. 7. Improved Voter Experience:
The system offers a streamlined, user-friendly voting
Advantages experience with minimal steps, reducing waiting
1. Enhanced Security: times and making the process more convenient for
The system uses biometric fingerprint authentication voters. This can increase voter turnout and
to ensure that only authorized voters can cast their engagement.
vote, eliminating the risk of impersonation and voter
fraud. Encrypted data transmission and secure storage
further protect the integrity of the voting process.

2. increased Accuracy:
By automating voter verification and vote counting,
the system minimizes human errors that are common
in traditional election methods. This leads to more
accurate results and a smoother voting process.

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Flowchart are counted digitally. Therefore, it is advised that the

proposed method be put into place at the national
level to obtain the significant benefit of making the
electronic voting system completely foolproof.

Future Scope
1. Biometric and Multi-Factor Authentication:
Future versions can incorporate additional
biometric modalities (such as facial recognition
or iris scanning) alongside fingerprint
authentication, or implement multi-factor
authentication, to further increase security and
minimize the chances of identity fraud.
2. AI-Powered Fraud Detection: Artificial
intelligence (AI) and machine learning
algorithms could be used to detect unusual voting
patterns.identify potential fraud, and ensure that
the system remains secure against emerging
threats.
3. Smart Election Infrastructure: The system could
be integrated with smart election booths and IoT
sensors to monitor voter turnout, system health,
and other vital parameters, making elections
even more efficient and data-driven.
4. Data Privacy and Legal Compliance: Future work
can focus on ensuring the system adheres to
evolving privacy regulations and legal
Conclusion requirements, ensuring that voter data is securely
In conclusion, a system that solves most of the issues stored and processed while maintaining
with the current voting system has been developed. transparency and trust.
This technique will undoubtedly offer a more secure 5. Smart Election Infrastructure: The system could
voting procedure, which is essential for a developing be integrated with smart election booths and IoT
country's overall development. The voting method sensors to monitor voter turnout, system health,
based on fingerprints that is suggested in this research and other vital parameters, making elections
is quicker and more effective than the systems even more efficient and data-driven.
previously described in the literature. A systematic 6. Data Privacy and Legal Compliance: Future work
voting system has been developed in this project, can focus on ensuring the system adheres to
where it is also speed up the vote counting process evolving privacy regulations and legal
after the voting process. The cost of paying staffs to requirements, ensuring that voter data is securely
count votes manually are also reduced since the votes stored and processed while maintaining
transparency and trust.

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traffic, faster processing times, and large-scale Waghmode, V., & Shinde, S. M. (2020).
data management without compromising on Blockchain based E-Voting System.
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