Design and implementation of convenient and compulsory voting system using finger print sensor and GSM technologies

India is a developing country, where still the electronic voting system is under threat due to the rigging in elections. The future of country is decided mainly by the elections, so the electronic voting machine must be trustworthy. The existing voting system, doesn't have person identification, so that there are chances to misuse the others rights. Fingerprint based authentication for voting is proposed in this paper, which eliminates the misuse in voting. GSM module is incorporated with finger print sensor to collect the data before election. The proposed model is implemented in Arduino for effective authentication and quick process with more flexibility. GSM module is used to transfer the collected information to near by taluk office or district office so that the authorized persons will access the information.