Global wireless e-voting

BY

A.PREM KUMAR

Evolution of Voting Technologies: Plain Paper Ballot Lever MachinePostalPunch Card Optical Scanning Telephone Phone Electronic Machine Voting(Direct Recording Electronic)Remote Electronic Voting (Online Voting)

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Invented ByAustralian paper ballot system - A Great Innovation Current Usage

ProblemCounting & Re-Counting Problem (Hand Counting)Problem with Disabled PeopleSolutionLet Machine To Count the Vote

Australian ballot (U.S., 1888) SOURCE: DOUGLAS W. JONES

Plain Paper Ballot:

First Official Use At Lockport, New York in 1892 Known As “Myers Automatic Booth”+ PointsPrivacyAutomatic CountingProblems:No Physical Record Exist that represent voter’s intentNo Recount Facility

Mechanical Lever Machine;

Types of Punch CardVotomatic: Contains a hole beside the number of the choice.Datavote: Contains a hole beside the name of the candidate of their choice.

+ PointsAutomatic CountingRecount Facility

- PointsRecount rarely produce same count

Punch Cards:

The problems with punch-card ballots became well known after the state of Florida’s 2000 US Presidential Election.

Optical Scanning

Clarity + Transparency From Paper Ballot System

Mechanized Counting From

Punch Card

Optical ScanningFirst Invented By

In 1937, By IBM Type 805 Test Scoring Machine, sensing graphite pencil marks on paper by their electrical conductivity Scanning Method : Visible Light , Infrared+ PointsQuicker Counting- PointsError rates from using the wrong type of pencil Under Vote & Over Vote , Dark/light marks

Now days voting system is replaced by electronic machine to carry out voting.Now in a present system each and every section is given a electronic machine which stores the votes of the people how have voted for the particular candidate.Control of present system is given to the in charge officer. He only check for the eligibility of the candidates and allow for the voting.Finally we collect all the voting machine at a place and go for counting.

Present Voting System:

Polling Station

But.....

But… duping and corrupting these machines became quite common scenario……

The voting should take place only where the machine is located.After voting if any technical problems or damage occurs with the machines it may leads to the re-election.The machine is not able to recognize the eligibility of a candidate, so the corrupted officers may misguide the people.The corrupted officers may increase the count of the voting. During transportation of the machines the in charge person can change the status of machines and even may destroy.This system is not a cost effective one. Since we need security, in charge officers, secured place for counting and election place

So we have a new one “Global Wireless e-Voting System”

In this proposed system, the machine is made intelligent which can determine the eligibility of the voter by scanning the eye pattern and also the vote count is not kept into the same machine itself instead of it is store in the remote server by converting it into radio waves. Here there is no chance of increasing the vote count of machine. Even in case of damage to voting machine there will not be harm to continuity of the election process.

kiosk systems

Voting machine Retina

scanner

Interface Device

Server or Distributed LAN + Interface

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Alert alarm

Vote flow channelMobile tower

Ready Signal

Block Diagram of Block Diagram of proposed Systemproposed System

Ready Signal

1&2 are Radio waves representing retina scanned pattern.3&4 are Acknowledgements (+ve or –ve) received.

unattended remotevoting (e.g Internet)

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The voting machine is actually a device which generate the different voltages for different votes these voltages are fed to the (ADC) which is then converted to digital bits then can be converted to radio waves.

This proposed E-Voting system makes these simple:Eligibility Eligibility AuthenticationAuthentication UniquenessUniquenessAnonymityAnonymityAccuracyAccuracyVerifiabilityVerifiabilityAudit AbilityAudit AbilitySecrecySecrecyMinimum skill required for voterMinimum skill required for voter Minimal requirement of equipmentMinimal requirement of equipmentMinimum Time required for voteMinimum Time required for voteRecount FacilityRecount Facility

• This project can be enhanced to work over the This project can be enhanced to work over the mobiles that is voting is made possible through the mobiles that is voting is made possible through the mobile through SMS.mobile through SMS.

•This machine can be made vote through the This machine can be made vote through the INTERNET.INTERNET.

•In India election has supreme weight-age . So to In India election has supreme weight-age . So to make it secured and efficient in the vision of modern make it secured and efficient in the vision of modern technology we are looking for thistechnology we are looking for this "Global Wireless E-Voting.”"Global Wireless E-Voting.”

Future Enhancements:

Thus this machine can be used for any level voting purpose. The machine provides high level of security, authentication, reliability, and corruption -free mechanism. By this we can get result with in minute after a completion of voting…….Minimum manpower Utilization, hence mechanism is error free.

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