fingerprint voting machine

by michael afari
(ghana)

The main aim in designing this product is to provide the concept of the personal identity for each individual. This is extended to a special case of electronic voting machine concept. The summary of the design can be briefly explained diagrammatically as follows.

As a pre-poll procedure the finger prints of all the voters are collected and stored in a database initially at time of distributing voting cards.

At the time of voting, the option of the voter is taken along with the finger print. The finger print taken by the scanner is sent to the pc through an in-built A/D converter. The processed image is transferred to hard disk.

The option entered by the voter is transferred to chip through DEMUX and is stored in the memory.

If the transferred image is matched with any of the records in the data base, then the interrupt is given by the HARD DISK to pc. Then the option is considered in the count.