India is world’s largest democratic country. It is perceived to be charismatic one as it accommodates cultural, regional, economical, social disparities and still is able to stand on its own. Fundamental right to vote or simply voting in elections forms the basis of Indian democracy. In India in all earlier elections a voter used to cast his/her vote to 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 continued till election scene was completely changed by electronic voting machine. No more ballot paper, ballot boxes, stamping, etc. all this condensed into a simple box called ballot unit of the electronic voting machine.
This project is designed for electronic voting machine by using the fingerprint identification method. Here the voter does not have any ID cards, voter’s thumb impressions, which are already stored in the data base before voting, are used for identifying the voters. During the time of voting when the voter keeps his/her thumb in the scanner, the system will check whether it matches with pre stored impressions in the database. If it matches then system will allow the voter to poll his vote and otherwise prevent the voter from polling by using the indications of the system.
Nowadays, providing the preventive measures system for voting are the tedious and expensive one. In order to provide an inexpensive solution to the above, the fingerprint based electronic voting machine is developed. It completely rules out the chance of invalid votes. Its use results in reduction of polling time,resulting in fewer problems in electoral preparations, law and order, candidates' expenditure and provide easy and accurate counting without any mischief at the counting center. It is capable of saving considerable printing stationery and transport of large volumes of electoral material.