An Approach for e-Voting using Face and Fingerprint Verification

Abstract

India is the world’s largest democracy with nearly 900 million eligible voters. The election period in India spans over nearly six weeks for general elections and there is no alternative system working for eligible voters who are at outstations or willing to cast their vote but not able to do so due to location constraints. Moreover, there is no special provision made for NRI voter / overseas elector for whom it is difficult to vote in person at the polling station. Service voters have to use postal ballot and go through a tedious process to cast their vote and this process is also prone to human errors. Our system is an e-Voting system that will use fingerprint and face verification along with a combination of firebase-database and server-side file-system at its back-end. Our system is designed especially for NRI voters and Service voters for whom it is difficult to cast their votes through the existing system. It provides an efficient, convenient, and secure mechanism for voters to cast their votes. The design of this system will make the voting process more convenient and may, therefore, lead to improving the turnout.