Electronic Voting Machine with Enhanced Security

Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) retains all the characteristics of voting by ballot papers, while making polling a lot more expedient. Considerable amount of time, man power and money is saved as it is extremely fast and reliable. Voting secrecy is also maintained without use of ballot paper. VVPAT that is currently used for voting machine is much more expensive than EVM to be created. The EVM is 100 per cent tamper proof. Results are available in the end just a click away. But these EVM can be tampered with by changing the hardware connections. Hence a printed acknowledgement is provided to the voter thus assuring him that vote has been casted to candidate voter wanted. Here, we describe the design, construction and operation of this voting machine using ATMEGA 32 microcontroller which has enhanced three layered extra security.