Cost effective real-time polling system

Abstract

In this democracy world, voting is a way to determine and show the result choice of the majority. In Malaysia all earlier elections a voter used to cast his vote by using ballot paper and it is still being used until now. This is a long, time-consuming process and very much prone to errors. With people now getting busy in their work and voters had to come far away to voting center while some voters don't like to wait in queues. In this project, Cost Effective Real-Time Polling System is introduced using text messages to cast vote of their choice. The voting system is based on short message service to eliminate the drawback of traditional voting method. It used a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328P and equipped with groups of digital and analog input/output pins interfaced to several extension boards. In power failure condition, all votes will still be stored in the EEPROM memory. The results show the LCD screen with the total number of vote that have been collected during the voting process. This work indicates that it has reduced the polling time, the accurate vote data information without any mischief at the counting center and more efficiency in getting overall results.