VOT-EL: Three tier secured state-of-the-art EVM design using pragmatic fingerprint detection annexed with NFC enabled voter-ID card

India being the largest democracy in the world, elections forms the cornerstone of our country. Amongst the prominent leaders, a representative is being chosen to run the country and to seek and search for the public affairs, pieces of legislation and constitutional amendments. The onerous task is to maintain transparency in the electoral process and shield the integrity of elections to make it equitable and withstand any fraudulence. Rampage free elections is one of the critical issues in today's state of affairs which is like finding needle in a haystack, that needs an eye and lots of money is being spent to ensure that the elections are fair and unprejudiced. Privacy is also important to make elections equitable to prevent voter coercion, intimidation and ballot selling. But nowadays it is seen that, many unwanted forces are indulged in bogus voting and recently also been criticized for election irregularities, that leads to ambiguity between the polling results and the actual verdict given by the people. Classical poll-site voting methods along with many other computer based voting system poise several administrative and logistic challenges in terms of cost, voter misinterpretation and tally of votes. This paper proposes a new state-of-the-art Electronic Voting Machine design in quest for election legitimacy, to provide an inexpensive solution which is based on pragmatic biometric system using fingerprint detection along with inclusion of Near-Far Communication technology.