SECURED AND TRANSPARENT VOTING SYSTEM USING BIOMETRICS

Every citizen or voter of India is allowed to exercise their right to express their choices regarding specific issues, pieces of legislation, citizen initiatives, constitutional amendments, recalls and/or to choose their government and political representative's through casting their votes. To allow the exercise of this right, almost all voting systems include the following steps: voter identification and authentication, voting and recording of votes cast, vote counting, publication of election results. Voter identification is required during electoral process. Security is a heart of e-voting process. Therefore the necessity of designing a secure e-voting process is very important. A secured electronic voting machine using unique identification number i.e. AADHAR number has been developed. To provide additional security along with the AADHAR number biometric identification is used. At the time of voting in the elections, the voter authentication can be done through biometric pattern. If the biometric information of the voter matches the database of the AADHAR then the person is allowed to cast their vote. Transparency is additional advantage for the above system.