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dtmf based future voting system

Introduction
Optical-scan machines, Punch cards, mechanical lever are some of the recent voting schemes that have replaced the earlier method of counting hands. Characteristics of Electronic voting systems are different from the traditional voting scheme, and improved features of voting system are also provided over traditional voting system such as accuracy, convenience, flexibility, privacy, verifiability and mobility. Inspite of these advantages this scheme suffers from various drawbacks such as Time consuming , large volume of pare work is consumed , Machines get damaged due to lack of attention, Due to Mass update simultaneous updation of many items is not allowed by users. Proposed Voting System overcomes these drawbacks. Such a system enables a voter to by use his/her voting rights from anywhere in the country respectively. Votes can be casted by the voter from anywhere in the country without visiting to voting booths, in highly secured manner. This system increases the percentage of voting and makes voting fearless of violence. India is a democratic country, our government follows voting system for betterment of the country. Voting and development go hand in hand. Now a days if a person wants to vote, he/she needs to go at the voting booth and stand in a queue until the turn arrives. This process is quiet tedious and time consuming. So we are developing a voting system with the help of which people can easily vote directly from their Phone, being present anywhere in the world. Just by pressing few digits from a phone your vote can be counted. The voter will be assigned a voter id and password using which he/she can vote. To prevent bogus voting, a system will be kept at voting booth which will check the status of the voter. If the status is “voted” then he/she will not be allowed to vote again. Security is preserved in a way that, once the admin has logged in, even he cannot stop the system or make any changes to it until the time period is completed. Presently, the IVR systems are developed and deployed with an information database at the back-end. End users are made available with the information over the interface of simple key presses using a pre-defined menu structure to answer the queries of users. The pre-defined menu structure and the information extracted from the database remains fixed throughout the life-time of an IVR system and ,manual intervention is required if any changes are to be made. A unique contextual value is given by the Information provided by the IVR system. The dynamic nature of context is ignored by the fixed menu structure and provides information that the developer might have envisioned at the beginning of the system. It can be understood well by taking the example of an Indian Railway IVR system, the menu structure to access information remains fixed throughout the year and all the users are offered by the same interface, thus not considering the contextual factors like, caller abilities to interact with the system etc.

Existing System
In these recent years online voting has been an active area of research, efforts to develop real world solutions have just begun posing several new challenges today. Recent reports have shown concern about the use of insecure Internet, well documented cases of incorrect implementations and the resulting security Breaches. In order to create public trust in online voting, these challenges and concerns have to be resolved. A voting system is a method by which voters make a choice between options, often in an election. Some rules are enforced to ensure that valid voting is done and the votes are counted properly to yield a final result. The three basic families of voting system are: Majority, proportional representation and semi proportional. All the voting systems within a same family tend to produce same results. At places like United Kingdom, Switzerland Internet voting systems have used for elections. Voting (manual): In our country the actual process of casting ballots is referred as voting. For the purpose of inspection a voter/person who is eligible for voting goes to the polling station where his name is registered and shows his voter identification card to the polling agent. Depending on the (unique) voter registration number on the card, the official/agent looks up the name of the voter respectively. Once it is made sure that the voter hasn’t cast any vote, he/she selects a candidate of choice on the given ballot box in an enclosed space by pressing the button against the candidate’s name/sign. Then that person’s middle finger of left hand is marked with indelible ink which proves that he/she has casted vote. He is then expected to leave the polling center.

Conclusion
This new method of voting enables a voter to cast his/her vote through a phone without going to voting booth. It also eliminates the advance need for user to register himself/herself for voting process. Double/Bogus voting is not possible, faster access, higher degree of security, ease of maintaining all the information of voting, highly efficient and flexibility are the advantages of this system. This will increase the percentage of voting. Any kind of human error can be removed/eliminated by using such a system. Reliability and scalability for large elections go hand in hand here. Such a voting system is also an excellent mechanism because physical presence of the voter is not mandatory. Thus we conclude that the voting system which will be developed is quiet convenient and easy to use for the user. Such a system is comitial for our country today, where electing a proper person is very essential. This takes the advantage of being location independent, time independent and security. This way the people who were not able to vote due to any of the reasons will be now easily voting by using this system. It will prove to be very beneficial and advantageous for our country in future.