Finger print enabled electronic voting machine unit

This research titled ‘finger print enabled electronic voting machine unit’ is a microcontroller based system interfaced to a computer running Assembly language. The main objective of this research among others is to design and construct a finger print enabled electronic voting machine, which counts the number of votes casted for each party and also will be able to: Prevent the situation whereby a person votes more than once, compute the vote result immediately after each vote, completely rules out the chance of invalid votes, reduction of polling time and ensures easy and accurate counting without any mischief at the counting centre. Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) consists mainly of two units-(a) Control Unit (CU) and (b) Ballot Unit (BU) with cable for connecting it with Control Unit. Both the units consist of one microcontroller (8052) each. The CU consists of one LCD, one hex keypad and a couple of switches, while BU consists of a candidate panel; a vote cast panel and a buzzer, etc. It aims at obtaining a highly efficient voting machine with a very high degree of accuracy and security.