e-Based Voting System Using Aadhar Card Data

Abstract

This project proposes a secure online e-voting system that uses UIDAI or aadhar database as its backend. The system ensures authentication of an individual by matching fingerprints and eligibility is checked by calculating the age of the voter thus making the existing voting cards redundant. The proposed system can handle voting at different levels such as Parliamentary, Municipality, State legislative assembly, etc simultaneously. The project will bring transparency in the voting process by assuring the voters that their votes will be in favor of the candidates of their choice. Besides electronic recording and counting of votes will be faster, more accurate and less labor intensive. The design of this system will make voting process more convenient and may therefore lead to improve the turnout.

Existing System

In existing electronic voting (e-voting) system is a voting system in which the election data is recorded, stored and processed primarily as digital information. There are two types of e-voting: On-Line and Offline. On-line, e.g. via Internet, and offline,by using a voting machine or an electronic polling booth. Authentication of Voters, Security of voting process, Securing voted data are the main challenge of e-voting. This is the reason why designing a secure e-voting system is very important. In many proposals, the security of the system relies mainly on the black box voting machine. But security of data, privacy of the voters and the accuracy of the vote are also main aspects that have to be taken into consideration while building secure e-voting system. In this project the authenticating voters and polling data security aspects for e-voting systems was discussed. It ensures that vote casting cannot be altered by unauthorized person. The voter authentication in online e-voting process can be done by formal registration through administrators and by entering One time password. In Offline e-voting process authentication can be done using Iris recognization, finger vein sensing which enables the electronic ballot reset for allowing voters to cast their votes. Also the voted data and voters details can be sent to the nearby Database Administration unit in a timely manner using GSM System with cryptography technique.

Proposed System

The proposed system is the Biometric online voting system with biometric fingerprint using aadhaar card.It determines the particular voter by his/her fingerprint whether he/she is a valid voter or not. It allows particular voter to cast the vote online and update the database in the server. Biometric online voting system uses aadhaar card to retrieve the complete details about the voter.

Architecture