INCLUSIVE POLLING PLATFORM: AN AADHAR BASED POLLING PLATFORM FOR MIGRANT LABOURERS AND NON - RESIDENT INDIANS

This paper proposes a secure and easily adoptable polling platform for Indian Electoral system. This paper intends to realize the idea suggested in International Conference on “Making our elections inclusive and accessible on Jan 24th 2018.The system is based on data available from UIDAI and Election Commission. Our system works in offline and online mode. Accurate biometric information is used for authentication and authorization of voters. In this system, the user has to enroll fingerprint to register followed by verification and authorization. The finger print of voters shall be already stored in the database with the help of UIDAI. Privacy issues shall not arise since the biometric information is not handed over to any private parties. The system works in such a way that voters can cast their vote from anywhere around the world .Any attempt of corruption by multiple voting and proxy voting will be captured and reported. Online system can be used for Indian voters abroad as well as migrant employees. Offline system can be used for domestic voters. Offline system uses a Arduino UNO as controller, fingerprint scanner, GSM module, buzzer, switches and keypad. Online system works on a web platform