BIOMETRIC GSM VOTING SYSTEM

BIOMETRIC GSM VOTING SYSTEM

Abstract

Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is a term encompassing several different types of voting, embracing both electronic means of casting a vote and electronic means of counting votes. Electronic voting technology can include punch cards, optical scan voting systems and specialized voting kiosks (including self-contained Direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems). It can also involve transmission of ballots and votes via telephones, private computer networks, or the Internet. Electronic voting systems may offer advantages compared to other voting techniques. An electronic voting system can be involved in any one of a number of steps in the setup, distributing, voting, collecting, and counting of ballots, and thus may or may not introduce advantages into any of these steps. The main aim of this project is develop a Electronic Voting Machine with maximum security facilities. Index Terms Electronic voting, e-voting, Direct recording electronic, private computer networks, biometric gsm voting etc (key words)

INTRODUCTION

Biometric voting has been a very controversial topic ever since the presidential elections in the U.S. in 2000.Many security flaws were found . The standards for the implementation of Biometric voting systems were shown to be too weak and many (scientific) experts expressed their negative opinions on biometric voting . Nevertheless, efforts are still made to introduce Bio-metric in countries that use traditional paper ballots. Biometric voting is an election method in which the votes are cast or collected electronically. A computer system whose main element is an software component that maps the voting procedure electronically is called an biometric voting system. A direct recording electronic (DRE) machine is a special case of such a system as it implements all steps in the voting process, from registration and ballot casting to counting. Introduction There are two different forms of voting: distance and presence voting. In presence voting, a voter can cast his or her vote in a polling station under the supervision of the election's administration. Examples for presence voting are conventional elections in polling stations or voting with biometric voting machines. In distance voting, the voter acts without the supervision of the electoral commission and casts his or her vote from a place other than a polling booth, such as casting absentee ballots via mail or internet voting.

In the presidential election, the election of member of the national assembly, the head of local government election, and others, a voter can cast vote after going to the designated polling place and checking his identity. This makes man directly to count the ballots and counting of votes to be long. Especially, this voting is a reason to reduce voting rate since voters always should go to the polling place. In an e-voting by touch screen, mobile system and internet, a voter directly selects candidates or the vote content appeared on a screen as the finger. In the meantime, an e-voting using internet has no inconvenience that voters should visit the voting booth. However, this voting is executed just in the environment with internet accessible computer. In this paper, we proposes an evoting system that allows a voter to be identified using a wireless certificate without additionally registering when a user votes using his mobile terminal such as a cellular phone or a PDA. We also present a method that ensures the anonymity of voter and the confidentiality of vote content. By our mobile voting system, a voter can cast his vote more easily and conveniently than the existing e-voting using internet, within the scheduled time period anywhere even when a voter is not able to access internet on a voting day. Our proposal can be applied not only to presidential election but also to any votes such as a national assembly election or a local election. Our goal is not to design a cryptographically provable protocol but to illustrate e-voting model and to describe a voting process. In democratic societies, voting is an important tool to collect and react people’s opinions. Traditionally, voting is conducted in centralized or distributed places called voting booths. Voters go to voting booths and cast their votes under the supervision of authorized parties. The votes are then counted manually once the election has finished. With the rapid development of computer technology and cryptographic methods, electronic voting systems can be employed that replace the incident and most importantly errorprone human component. To increase the efficiency and accuracy of voting procedures, computerized voting systems were developed to help collecting and counting the votes. These include Lever Voting Machines, Punched Cards for Voting, Optical Mark-Sense Scanners and Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems. For a variety of reasons, voters may be unable to attend voting booths physically, but need to vote remotely, for example, from home or while travelling abroad. Hence, there is great demand for remote voting procedures that are easy, transparent, and, most importantly, secure.

OBJECTIVES

Electronic voting system [2] is the system that automates and simplifies the process of election. It is based on the computers or portable computerized devices. This paper firstly discusses about the generic requirements and specific user oriented requirements for electronic voting systems. Then it introduces a set of essential components for building up electronic voting systems. Moreover, it presents the design analysis, which is based on analyzing various existing electronic voting systems, and usability and security are the key issues to be discussed in this section. The analysis shows that these systems worked well, but still have several problems. Suggestions about what need to be improved are provided in the end. Electronic voting (E-voting) [3] using an internet has been recently performed in some nations and regions. There is no spatial restriction which a voter directly has to visit the polling place, but an e-voting using an internet has to go together the computer in which the internet connection is possible. Also, this voting requires an access code for the e-voting through the beforehand report of a voter. To minimize these disadvantages, we propose a method in which a voter, who has the wireless certificate issued in advance, uses its own cellular phone for an  e-voting without the special registration for a vote. Our proposal allows a voter to cast his vote in a simple and convenient way without the limit of time and location, thereby increasing the voting rate, and also ensuring confidentiality and anonymity. Electronic voting systems have the potential to improve traditional voting procedures by providing added convenience and flexibility to the voter. Numerous electronic voting schemes have been proposed in the past, but most of them have failed to provide voter authentication in an efficient and transparent way. On the other hand, GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) is the most widely used mobile networking standard. There are more than one billion GSM users worldwide that represent a large user potential, not just for mobile telephony, but also for other mobile applications that exploit the mature GSM infrastructure. In this paper, an electronic voting scheme using GSM mobile technology is presented. By integrating an electronic voting scheme with the GSM infrastructure, we are able to exploit existing GSM authentication mechanisms and provide enhanced voter authentication and mobility while maintaining voter privacy.

BIOMETRIC GSM VOTING SYSTEM

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