DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE BASED ON IMAGE PROCESSING USING RASPBERRY PI

Abstract

Electronic voting machine (EVM) has been developedand widely used in many developed nationsfor further
improve the election process and to avoid rigging, but most of them use Radio Frequency ID. In developing countries
RFID identity for each person does not exist. And using RFID is still a costly solution. Some of the developing countries
use image processing technique to detect citizens. But only image processing is not enough for security criteria.
Keeping these problems in mind in this paper a raspberry pi will be used as host. The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized
single computer or SoC uses ARM1176JZF-S core. SoC, or System on a Chip, is a method of placing all required
electronics for running a computer ona single chip. It needs an Operating system to start up. SD/MMC card will acts as
a bootable hard disk. A camera will be employed to take picture of citizen’s frontal image and identify that this user is
valid voter for that region. If the citizen is valid and also didn’t vote then the person will be allowed to submit his/her
vote. Each voting machine is locked by finger print access module. As the voterfingerprint ismatched with the database,
he/she will be sent to a specific machine for voting. Each voting machine is linked with the central raspberry pi voting
identification system.