EMBEDDED SMART ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE

ABSTRACT:

The Project Embedded Voting System using Raspberry Pi 3 board is an interesting project which uses Raspberry Pi 3 as its brain. The project is designed for four contestants. Voters can poll their vote to any one of the contestant.

In this project, we are using the smart card reader to read the cards assigned to the voters before voting, which contains all his details. Besides that the fingerprints of all the voters are also enrolled. The voters mobile numbers are also collected.  The fingerprint module was connected to one of the four USB ports of the Raspberry Pi 3 using the USB to TTL converter. The smart card reader and the GSM modem are connected to the Raspberry Pi 3 UART port via Relay.

When the person going to cast his vote, he should read his unique card and test his enrolled fingerprint by using the smart card reader and the finger print module respectively, if both are matches then he should allow casting the vote. After cast his vote by pressing the switch corresponding party, he could get the instant SMS to his enrolled mobile number. And also the USB web camera provided in the polling booth will trigger and take the snap shot of the person voting and send that to the FTP web server via Wi-Fi module. For the Wi-Fi module, we should provide the internet connection via Wi-Fi router or by using the mobile hot spot.

If the voter try to vote his vote by using the unauthorized card or by using the fake fingerprint, then he was not allowed to cast his vote and the USB web camera take the snap of that person and also sent to the FTP file server.

The election commission persons only have the confidential credentials to open the FTP server and they can open it and check the photos and can downloads if they want.