Design of Authenticated Radio Frequency Identification based Electronic Voting Machine

To elect leaders, vote is a powerful right for the people of democratic countries. At present Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) are being used to conduct elections. It needs five to six polling officials per booth to conduct voting. In this paper, an authenticated Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based EVM is proposed which needs only two to three polling officials per booth. In this, each voter will be given a unique RFID tag, which should be carried out to the polling booth while coming to cast their vote. Based on that, the EVM can easily identify the person is authenticated voter or not and also checks whether he/she had already voted or not. To avoid the chances of bringing one's tag by others, face recognition is added as a second step of authenticity. Results showed that the proposed EVM is more reliable, needs less man power and time to conduct elections smoothly.