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ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM

Rajesh M. Ghadi1, Priyanka S. Shelar2

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Dept. of Computer Engineering, Ideal Institute of Technology, Posheri,Wada,Palghar,India-421303
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ABSTRACT: The project is mainly aimed at providing a To make the voting process very easy and efficient
secured and user-friendly Online Voting System. The wireless and web technologies are used. The online-
problem of voting is still critical in terms of safety and voting system has the possibility of secure, easy and safe
security. This system deals with the design and way to capture and count the votes in the election.
development of a web-based voting system using
fingerprint and aadhaar card in order to provide a high The author in [1]” online voting system based on aadhaar
performance with high security to the voting system. The id” uses aadhaar id as key of authentication, system is
proposed Online Voting System allows the voters to scan efficient in terms of time and provides security the system
their fingerprint, which is then matched with an already is great improvement over traditional system but the
saved image within a database that is retrieved from main problem resides in this system is that of
aadhaar card database of the government. The voting authentication, the authentication technique used is not
system is managed in a simpler way as all the users must that efficient as biometric is not used.
login by aadhaar card number and click on his/her
favorable candidates to cast the vote By using biometric The paper [2]” Secure Authentication for Online
fingerprint it provides enough security which reduces the Voting System” presents non traceability and integrity of
dummy votes. the votes, smart card has been used to avoid multiple
votes casted by users, biometric is being used for
Keywords—Fingerprint based voting system, Online authenticating voters. The author has introduced smart
voting system, Online election system, AADHAAR ID card for biometric identification and voter id card to be
based online election. used at the time of casting vote. They are using smart card
and voter id card at the time of election which is not
feasible as anything can happen to those cards thus
1.INTRODUCTION relying completely upon cards in not a good idea. And the
use of various cards makes the system costly now each
India has democratic government. As now all Indian and every voter need to have these additional cards. Also,
citizen become a part of the growing digital India. They it may take reasonable amount of time to generate so
have a digital ID that is Aadhar card. Voting schemes have many cards. All voting system generated priory though
evolved from counting hands in early days to systems that have met various features, which a voting system may
include paper, punch card, electronic voting machine. An consists but the main problem one could find in this
electronic voting system which is used nowadays provide system is that little “online” word, despite all techniques
some characteristic different from the traditional voting they have used to make system robust there is always a
technique, and also it provides improved features of chance of malpractice when your system is online.
voting system over traditional voting system such as
accuracy, convenience, flexibility, privacy, verifiability In [3]” online voting system powered by
and mobility. But Electronic voting systems suffers from biometric security” the author has used personal
various drawbacks such as time consuming, consumes identification number, thumb impression and secret key
large volume of paper work, no direct role for the higher altogether for authentication of the voter. Techniques
officials, damage of machines due to lack of attention, such as cover image creation, secret key expansion have
mass update doesn’t allow users to update and edit many been used for securely sending data to server and then
items simultaneously etc. These drawbacks can overcome further authenticating voters. This system is quite robust;
by Online Voting System. This is a voting system by which it takes care of authentication as well as security of voter’s
any voter can use his/her voting rights from anywhere in data stored in server. The main problem with such
the country. Voter can cast their votes from anywhere in systems is that despite using various security techniques
the country without visiting to voting booths, in highly they won’t be able to manage such a huge amount of data
secured way. That makes voting a fearless of violence and that they may encounter during election periods their
that increases the percentage of voting. system is online and they may face congestion during
casting votes.
2.LITERATURE SURVEY
3. EXISTING SYSTEM The Existing System of Election is running manually. The
Voter has to Visit to Booths to Vote a Candidate so there is

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aadhar card no, mobile no. email id, finger prints and
wastage of Time. The Voter has to manually register into verified the details by administrator. At the time of
the Voter List. Also Vote counting has to be done requesting vote, voter will be asked to enter his aadhar id.
manually. All the Information of the Voter or Candidate is Then voter will be authenticated, and he can give vote
to be filling in manually. Voter must be present in his/her from one of the candidate from the list.If voter already
Constituency to give his/her Vote. There are Electronic has AADHAR Id then he/she don’t need to register, else
Voting Machines used which Takes More Cost. The voting before voting he/she need register himself/herself in
system previously being used by the Government is a AADHAR database.
paper based system, in which the voter simply picks up
ballots sheets from electoral officials, tick off who they 3.3 IMPROVEMENT IN EXISTING SYSTEM
would like to vote for, and then cast their votes by merely
handing over the ballot sheet back to electoral official. As we are looking at the existing system, they are just
Some of the existing systems are: providing online voting. As we knew that Government of
India contain multiple elections. So we are implementing
i. Paper-based voting our system such that voter can select election and submit
ii. Direct recording electronic voting machine their vote region/ward wise. After studying existing
iii. Punch card system we observed that they are not providing state
wise, region wise voting facility. So its difficult to vote
3.1 SCOPE because there is no restriction, so voter can also cast
his/her vote to those candidate who is not belonging from
i. Increasing number of voters as individuals will his/her area. In proposed system we are implementing
find it easier and more convenient to vote. that voter can cast his/her vote only those candidate
who’s belonging from his/her region/ward. We will
ii. Less effort and less labor intensive, as the display only those candidate who are belonging from that
primary cost and focus primary on creating, particular voters ward. So it will also help to conduct
managing, and running a secure web voting small election such as Gram Panchayat Election or Nagar
portal. Sevak Elaction. We are making our voting system user
friendly.
iii. The system can be used anytime and from
anywhere by the Voters.
4. METHODOLOGY FOR IMPLEMENTATION
iv. No one can cast votes on behalf of others and
multiple times. Online Voting System can be implemented, using login
v. Saves time and reduces human intervention. vi. which requires a fingerprint scan and the name of the
candidate.
The system is flexible and secured to be
used. ALGORITHM:

vii. Unique Identification of voter through Aadhar  Minutiae Based Algorithm

number.
viii. Improves voting with friendly Interface. In this we use two algorithms: minutiae-extraction
algorithm (fingerprint detection) and minutiae-matching
ix. No fraud vote can be submitted. (matching fingerprint i.e. input fingerprint and database
fingerprint) algorithm.
3.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM
a. Minutiae Extraction
This Online Voting System will manage the Voter’s
information by which voter can login and use his voting Fingerprint authentication is based on minutiae patterns
rights. There is a DATABASE which is maintained by the matching. Minutiae extraction consisting three
ELECTION COMMISION OF INDIA in which complete data components:
of voter with complete information is stored. At the time
of registration voter will be asked for this: Full name, age,
 i. Orientation field estimation We can match fingerprint by different strategies, such as
point pattern matching, image based matching, ridge
ii. Ridge extraction
pattern matching, graph based scheme, etc. The point
iii. Minutiae extraction and post processing pattern matching is the minutiae matching. a minutia
matching is decomposed into two stages:
b. Minutiae Matching
i. Alignment stage ii. Matching stage

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5.SYSTEM REQUIREMENT

 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

i. MYSQL DBMS- It allows combination, extraction,

manipulation and organization of data in the
voters’ database. It is platform independent and
therefore can be implemented and used across
several such as Windows, Linux server and is
compatible with various hardware mainframes.
It is fast in performance, stable and provides
business value at a low cost.
Fig.1
System Flow
ii. NetBeans IDE 7.1.2- The NetBeans IDE is an
awardwinning integrated development 7. CONCLUSION
environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux,
and Solaris. The NetBeans project consists of an Online Voting Systems have many advantages over the
open-source IDE and an application platform traditional voting system. Some of these advantages are
that enable developers to rapidly create web, less cost, faster generation results, easy accessibility,
enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications accuracy, and low risk of human and mechanical errors. It
using the Java platform, as well as PHP, is very difficult to develop online voting system which can
JavaScript and Ajax, Groovy and Grails, and C/C+ allow security and privacy on the high level. Future
+. development focused to design a system which can be
iii. Testing- XAMP/WAMP easy to use and will provide security and privacy of votes
SERVER. on acceptable level by proper authentication and
processing section.. It is easy to use and it is less time
consuming. It is very easy to debug.
 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

i. Microsoft Windows XP Professional /Windows 7 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Professional /Windows 10:
We would like to take the opportunity to express our
ii. Processor: 800MHz Intel Pentium III or heartfelt gratitude to the people whose help and
equivalent coordination has made this seminar a success. We thank
iii. Memory: 512 MB iv. Disk space: 750 MB of Prof. Miss. TRUPTI KINI for knowledge, guidance and co-
operation in the process of making this project. We owe
free disk space v. Finger Print Scanner Seminar success to our guide and convey our thanks to
them. We would like to express our heartfelt to all the
teachers and staff members of Computer Engineering
6. SYSTEM FLOW Department for their full support. We would like to thank
our principal for conductive environment in the
institution.

9. REFERENCES
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[2] Smita B. Khaimar, P. Sanyasi Naidu, Reena Kharat

“Secure
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Barbhuiya, Sukumar Nandi “Online Voting System

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