ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE USING RASPBERRY PI

Abstract

“A voting machine is a machine used to record or tally votes”. Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting votes. All earlier elections be it state elections or center elections a voter used to cast his/her favorite candidate by putting the stamp against his/her name and then folding the ballot paper as per a prescribed method before putting it in the Ballot Box. This is a long, time-consuming process and very much prone to errors. This situation can be completely changed by electronic voting machines. The main aim of our project is to build an “Electronic Voting System” for counting fast and fair votes. Our project minimizes human resources, cost that are spent on elections. No more ballot paper, ballot boxes, stamping, etc. all condensed into a simple box called the ballot unit of the electronic voting machine. Because biometric identifiers cannot be easily misplaced, forged, or shared, they are considered more reliable for person recognition than traditional token or knowledge-based methods. All the information is stored in a database and made digital with more security that includes biometric identifier, QR code scanners. This project discusses a complete review about the voting system, issues comparison among the voting methods and biometric EVM.