E-Voting using Finger Print Recognition and Digital Signature

Using the decade old election system to collect votes from the citizens is no longer considered efficient due to the various recurring errors. So time has arrived that the paper based primordial voting system which has already proven itself an inefficient and slow procedure is changed immediately. The system that is being followed currently, from data collection procedure to counting of the votes is a manual process. Here we are proposing an automated electronic voting system. For the voter registration and authentication processes which are performed on the system, the voter is expected to have his or her fingerprints captured and the minutiae extracted that is stored on the database. This is done to prevent the occurrence of multiple registrations or identity. Thus, during the authentication period, voters are expected to undergo a matching verification of their fingerprint samples against the values stored in the database which is identified through the use of a unique voter identification number assigned during registration. The election commission authority is authorized to access the details but they aren’t authorized for modifying or changing the details. Modification of the voters’ information requires the fingerprint of the particular voter. This paper provides a secure approach for online voting system using the concept of encryption trough RSA and digital signature. So the system will help to minimize the corruption done by others, and hopefully corruption may be diminished at some point of time. In this system Voter will select his/her preferable candidate by providing his or her opinion on a touch screen where all candidates’ voting sign is displayed. Four layered network system will be used here for sending the votes from client to the main database there are three application server, and a client. Among them one application server will work as dispatcher. The encrypted votes will be sent from the client to the dispatcher through an application server and this layer will send those votes to main database through another application server. They will be counted there automatically which will take lesser time than the manual system. So the result will be faster, more accurate and reliable.