LOW-COST, LOW POWER CONSUMPTION, AUTHENTICATOR CONTROLLED ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE

Fecha de publicación: 24/01/2020
Fuente: WIPO "honey"
ABSTRACT OF THE INVENTION:Electronic Voting Machine, EVS, has reduced the economic burden and time expenditure involved in large scale elections. Voter authentication, secure voting and simplification of voting protocol are the key to determine the system complexity and cost. As the layers of security and authentication increases the circuit complexity, cost and power consumption increases. The manuscript presents, the design and working methodology of a microcontroller based EVM. The proposed EVM enables the voting after an election supervisor, ES, has successfully completed the voter authentication. The vote casted is stored in memory without storing the identity of the voter thereby providing secure voting mechanism. After the stipulated voting period has expired, the ES permanently disables the voting by any unauthorized person. This step provides security against vote count tampering after the voting is complete. ES, authentication and simplified voting procedure helps to reduce complexity, cost and power consumption of the proposed EVM.