This document proposes an automatic voting machine model that uses biometrics for secure voting in India. The proposed system uses smart voter cards linked to Aadhaar identification numbers, which would allow voters to authenticate using fingerprint biometrics at automated voting machines. Voters would select candidates on a touchscreen, and fingerprint matching would confirm their identity before casting a vote. This system aims to make voting more accessible, secure and transparent by preventing duplicate votes and verifying that each vote is cast by the correct voter.

1. NAGOLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
AUTOMATIC VOTING MACHINE-AN ADVANCED MODEL
FOR SECURED BIOMETRICS BASED
VOTING MACHINE
Presented By
A. Shivani Reddy
CSE

2. ABSTRACT
There are various problems related to the present voting technique in India
which is through Electronic Voting Machines (EVM). Now we are going to
propose a idea about how the voting processes and equipments can be
designed for a “free, fair and secure” polling in the upcoming days. This
proposed model will assure complete transparency and will definitely gain the
trust and integrity of the voters. Biometric authentication and identity proof are
given much priority while proposing the concept .

3. VOTING MACHINE
 A voting machine is a machine used to register and tabulate votes.
Figure : A Machine Used For Casting Votes

4. Control Unit Features Of Control Unit

5. VOTE RECORDING TECHNOLOGIES
 Paper Ballots: A ballot may be a simple scrap of paper on which each
voter writes in the name of a candidate.
 Optical Scan: The optical scan allows voters to fill in a sheet by hand, but
then it is tallied using a machine.

6.  Punched Card: A voter would place the punch cards into a clipboard-sized
device. From there, they would use a stylus to poke holes into perforated
squares, called chads, that correspond to the candidate they are voting for.
 Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail: It is a method of providing feedback to
voters using a ballot less voting system.

7. PRESENT VOTING SCENARIO IN INDIA
 For the election, schools and colleges are taken as polling stations for
distribution and collection of voting equipments to the polling officers.
 For these, the official works, classes are suspended and the students have to
face various problems.

8.  On a particular election day, the election booths become heavily crowded.
 People have to stand in the scorching sunlight for hours just to cast a vote.

9. PROBLEMS WITH EVM
 A voter could not check what happened to his/her vote i.e., whether it has been
properly recorded in the system database or not.
 Since the EVMs move through different hands therefore they are susceptible
to manipulations by fraudulent.
 Here valid voters are just checked by polling officers by their photos on the
voter card.
 Since the structure and composition of the EVM is very simple so substituting
a fake EVM with the real one can be done easily.

10. ADVANCEMENT THAT CAN BE MADE IN VOTING
 In this modern era of technology we can have ATM like touch screen machines
which can be called as AVM(Automatic Voting Machine).
 For this thing we must have the voter cards in the form of smart cards(SVC)
containing all the informations of Aadhaar Card .(Unique Identification Card)

11.  Unique Identification Authority Of India: The UIDAI is a central
government agency of India.
• Its objective is to collect the biometric and demographic data of residents
to issue a 12 digit unique identify number called Aadhaar to each citizen.
• It is mandatory for all citizens of India to enroll him/her in this world's
largest national identification number project.
• So by tagging the 12-digit unique identity number with the Smart Voter
Card the system can access the fingerprint and details of every citizen
(from the UIDAI database) for voting purpose.

12. • Even in Delhi(capital of India) the Delhi Jal(Water) Board (DJB) has
launched a massive program – “Sarvajal”(i.e. Water to all).
• Prepaid smart card (called water cards) is used to get the desired and
particular quantity of drinking water from the water ATMs.

13. ACCESSIBILITY OF AVM
 Voter will have to enter the AVM counter, then he will have to place the voter
card over a scanner.
 Then the machine will direct the voter to place his fingers on a finger print
scanner .

14.  If two templates match then only the person will be eligible to cast his vote.
 As a result of this process one person cannot cast the vote of another person.
 Then a voter will have to touch his desired candidates name or NOTA option
over the screen to cast the vote.

15.  If they want to do any changes in their vote they can press CANCEL button
to re-enter their choice.
 If not, the voter can press the YES button to confirm their vote.
 After the voting is confirmed an assurance message will be displayed stating
the name of the candidate with party symbol or NOTA.
 Then the THANK YOU message will be displayed on the screen.
 With this the voters will assure that their vote has been properly casted against
their desired candidate.

16. SECURITY ASPECTS
 For security purpose CCTV, surveillance cameras and spy cameras can be
installed outside the AVM counters.
 Again, to enter into the AVM counter the voter has to enter voter card into a
card slot outside the AVM counter.
 If the card is valid and the counter door will automatically open
allowing the voter into the AVM counter.
 All the software should be programmed in such a way that any eligible voter
can cast his vote from any AVM within or outside their proper constituency.
 After the voting time is over, process will be closed automatically and machine
will not accept any voter card.

17. PROPOSED AVM MODELAND FRAMEWORK
 MODULES
o Display Unit / Touch Screen
o Keyboard
o Card Slot
o Biometric Finger Print Scanner

18. BIOMETRIC FINGER PRINT AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM
 There are different biometric techniques that are widely used under
investigation.
 So far, the only legally acceptable, readily automated and mature biometric
technique is the automatic finger print authentication technique.

19. CONCEPT OF BIOMETRIC FINGER PRINT
 A biometric finger print authentication system is essentially a pattern
recognition system.
 It operates by acquiring biometric data from an individual, extracting a
feature set from the acquired data, and comparing it with template set stored
in the system Data Base.
 A biometric system may operate either in
– verification mode
or
– identification mode.

20. UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS OF FINGER PRINTS
 Minutiae and patterns are very important in the analysis of fingerprints.
 PATTERNS:
• Arch
• Loop
• Whorl
 MINUTIAE FEATURES:
• Ridge Ending
• Bifurcations
• Short Ridges (or dots)

21. DESIGN OF A FINGERPRINT-VERIFICATION SYSTEM
 First of all fingerprints are scanned through a fingerprint scanner , which is an
electronic device used to capture a digital image of the fingerprint pattern.
 The imaging system consists of LED and CCD(Charge-Couple Device) placed
on the other side of the glass platen.

22.  A fingerprint scanner system has two basic jobs—
– It needs to get an image of our finger and
– It needs to determine whether the pattern of ridges, valleys and
minutiae points in this image matches with the image that is already
stored in the system Data Base

23. ADVANTAGES OF AVM
 AVMs will contribute to a faster vote casting, effortless counting and
delivery of the election results.
 AVM will completely strikeout the errors in the vote casting and counting
process by decreasing the chances of invalid vote.
 Now almost all individuals use ATM for banking so this AVM system will
be easily understood by them.
 It is impossible to tamper with the software or hardware and as the database
will be centralized so results cannot be manipulated.
 Gaining transparency, trust and integrity of the voters.

24. CONCLUSION
 We have just presented an idea or concept that how our voting systems can
be made in the recent future for “free and fair” voting, with faster, secure,
easy accessible and reliable voting techniques.
 The application of biometric fingerprint authentication system will enhance
the authenticity of a voter thereby leading to a fair election.

25. ANY QUERIES?

26. THANK YOU