BIOMETRIC VOTING SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY
ABSTRACT
In democratic societies, voting is an important tool to collect and re-act people thinking's.
Traditionally, voting is conducted in centralized or distributed places called polling booths.
Voters go to polling booths and cast their votes under the supervision of authorized parties. Then
the votes are counted manually once the election has completed
This paper aims to present a new voting system employing biometrics in order to avoid
rigging and to enhance the accuracy and speed of the process. The system uses thumb impression
for voter identification as we know that the thumb impression of every human being has a unique
pattern. Thus it would have an edge over the present day voting systems.
As a pre-poll procedure, a database consisting of the thumb impressions of all the
eligible voters in a constituency is created. During elections, the thumb impression of a voter is
entered as input to the system. This is then compared with the available records in the database.
If the particular pattern matches with anyone in the available record, access to cast a vote is
granted. But in case the pattern doesn’t match with the records of the database or in case of
repetition, access to cast a vote is denied or the vote gets rejected. Also the police station nearby
to the election poll booth is informed about the identity of the imposter
S VISHAL
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DATE: 05-03-2019