Smart and Secure Electronic Voting Machine
摘要
India, as the world’s largest democracy, faces the ongoing challenge of low voter turnout, with recent national elections recording a participation rate of just 65.79%. This issue is exacerbated by the existing electoral requirement that voters be physically present in their registered constituencies, effectively disenfranchising millions of migrant workers and citizens residing away from home. The proposed Smart and Secure Electronic Voting System addresses this critical gap by enabling inter-state voting, allowing eligible voters to cast ballots for their home constituencies from any location across the country. Built on an Arduino Uno platform, the system integrates biometric fingerprint authentication to ensure secure and unique voter identification, while an LCD interface displays constituency-specific candidate lists. Votes are securely transmitted and stored in a cloud-based database via a WiFi module, using the ThingSpeak server for real-time, tamper-resistant data management. The system prevents multiple voting attempts by locking out voters after a successful ballot submission, thereby upholding electoral integrity. By combining IoT technologies and robust biometric verification, this solution not only simplifies the voting process for the floating population but also strengthens the inclusivity, accessibility, and representativeness of the Indian democratic process.