Enhanced Electronic Voting Machine Performance with an E-Voting Website

This paper presents the enhanced electronic voting machine performance with an E-Voting website. The Election Commission of India (ECI) plays a vital role in our country framing the government by conducting elections according to the by-law of the Constitution of India. To conduct the elections effectively the ECI has been introducing advanced technologies that reduce time consumption, cost, and manpower. At present, the ECI adopted a Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) with an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) to increase its reliability. Due to manual verification of voters' details with the electoral lists malpractice continues during the elections. To overcome these problems, a face recognition device and a fingerprint sensor is embedded with an EVM. However, the average polling rate is unable to cross seventy percent in our democratic country. Why because nearly twenty percent of people are migrated to other states and abroad for employment or higher studies and are unable to cast their vote. In this approach, a secured online voting system has been introduced along with an existing EVM to cast their vote virtually. These votes are stored in the server and EVM with a secured interlocking system. The EVM hardware setup employs a web camera and a fingerprint sensor to ensure voters as per the record. Test results with an enhanced EVM are presented to validate performance with an E-Voting website.