Electronic Voting Mechanism using Microcontroller ATmega328P with Face Recognition

An electronic voting system based upon face recognition algorithm, camera and ATmega328P is reported in this paper. Election is the main concern of any country when to elect someone. Also, it is very important to conduct the reliable, secure, fast and fair election so that the people can have faith in the system and they can elect the person to whom they want along with the low cost of paper work and manpower. In the present work, an electronic voting system is developed that includes the more secure version of existing system and the use of modern technology such as face recognition and IoT. The current work proposes an electronic system inclusive of multipled verification layers such that process reliability is ensured. In this process, each voter is registered into the system database well before the time of election. Now at the voting time, In the first step voter must verify his/her government identity such as Aadhar card or voting card with his/her proper picture, once it is verified, he/she moves to the second step. In second step voter has to go under the face reorganization process. Once the corresponding matching or verification is done, the voter will move to next step to cast vote to the candidate from the electronic voter machine. The cast vote is shown on display for the satisfaction of voters. Then the voting data is continuously uploaded on ThingSpeak server (can use dedicated server of Election department). The central office of election department can monitor the data in more reliable way so that no discrepancy/modification can take place later.