Preferential Electronic Voting Machine

“An Electronic Marvel”

AKASH.M.KONNUR

Overview

Introduction Purpose and scope Proposed System Algorithm employed Implementation details Advantages and disadvantages Future Scope and Conclusion References

Introduction

India is one of the countries that has employed EVM in polling.

Even though EVM is in use, conventional ballot paper voting is also in existence. This is because EVM’s in use are not economical.

EVM is not used for preferential voting system because of complexities

Purpose scope

To make polling Easy and Effective. To Have instant results. To reduce the cost of polling process and

also the EVM. To resolve post election conflicts and to

contribute something to anti corruption To reduce lapses of votes and thus reduce

conflicts

End users of the system

Election Presiding Officer Voters Terminating and Counting personnel

Preferential voting procedure

Total votes = 60,000 . No of votes needed to win =30,001(50% +1). No of 1st preference votes:

Nick: 15,000 Tony: 23,000 Jenny:22,000

So Nick is eliminated and his votes are distributed to Tony and Jenny

Preferential voting procedure

Votes distributed are as follows

Tony= 6300

Jenny= 8700

Nick’s 15000 in total.

so the result is ● Tony: 23,000 + 6,300 = 29,300● Jenny: 22,000 + 8,700 = 30,700

Existing system

Block Diagram of proposed system

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DETERMINISTIC FINITE AUTOMATA

Hardware and Software Requirements

PIC IC & trainer kit* why pic ? -it has 5 ports, 33 pins, 8k program memory, 384k data space,

3 enable ports, reprogrammable or ngx blue

board can be used.

Bug of pic ic LCD Display** Opto couplers LED Doorbell Switches and Buzzers KEIL Compiler and IC burner

Implementation Details

Programming can be done in Embedded C language

Compiler used – KEIL μvision

Advantages

Will be a new technology which will make earth a bit more greener

Instant results are possible unlike the one with existing systems.

The system is totally robust, safe and tamper proof.

Disadvantages

Only 65000 votes can be polled The system requires calibration before

elections based on number of contestants The counting and time complexity increases

linearly with the number of contestants This system can be used only when there are

eight or less than eight contestants

Future scope

The ballot boxes can be cascaded if there are more contestants.

Use Bio-Metric authentication in Control Unit

Conclusion

System is cost effective Easy to implement. System is safe, secure, portable and reliable. Small step towards reducing global warming.

References

The Micro controller 8051 by Kenneth Ayala. What’s wrong with Electronic Voting Machine? By

Bruce Schiener. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting#Spo

iled_Ballots.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting#Government_and_non-governmental_adopters.htm

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