Arduino based Electronic Voting System with Biometric and GSM Features

India is a democratic country, where voting system has created massive impact on elections. The soul of any social equality lies in the authenticity that citizens decide their own representatives. Electronic voting machines (EVM) are introduced for achieving fair election system and also shrink the man power requirement during the election. In modern era, these electronic voting machines are prone to tampering and electoral frauds which introduces prime challenges for fair election process. However, the prospect of tampering memory chip and double voting are the two main vulnerabilities in current voting system. Hence, it is essential to modernize the conventional voting systems with a transparent authentication module, security and reliability in order to achieve fairness in the elections. In this work a fingerprint authentication for the voter based on stored data has been proposed which enables identification of individuals with high degree of accuracy and GSM feature enhances the transparency of election. Whenever, a fake vote has casted, and then an alert message for the candidate has been sent to registered mobile number of a voter. The proposed voting system based on Arduino is trustworthy in terms of security, reliability, fairness and transparency of election.