Secure Mobile Voting

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I. Introduction
Everything by Nature Moves. Mobility Is The Basic Feature Of Every Organism. So Does Man .In This High Tech Info Era and Everyone Needs to Get Connected without Getting Wired (Chained). It’s The Free World Still Get In Touch With These Human Technologies. With The Advent Of Numerous Personal Digital Appliances (PDA), One Can Obtain And Access Information To His Needs, Of Course All These In A Society Where He Lives. Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) Can Be Replaced With a Mobile Ballot Paper. Voting At Our Finger Tips From Our Place Itself. “Cast a Vote, Without a Ballot, Got A Cell Phone With You…” Democracy Can Be Made Transparent To Citizens. The Heartbeats of Democracy (Voting) Be Made Transparent To the Laymen (Who Has a Cell Phone!) In A Big Democratic Country likes India. Information Is The Much-Valued Thing And It Needs At The Right Time By The Right Way And By The Right Approach. History Has Shown That There Are Several Malpractices In Election And Voting Procedure Such As Ballot Snatching, Fake Voting, Counting Malpractices, Voters List Name Cancellation Etc., And Huge Investment Of Money Spent On Voting Goes Waste Without Achieving The Goal Of Democracy. Our Effort Lies In Reducing The Cost, Error And Malpractices In The Process Of Voting.

II. M-Voting (An Alternate Of E-Voting):

Mobile Technology Has Attained Heights And The Market Trend Is That Every Citizens Of India Will Possess A Mobile Handset By The Year 2010 (At Cheaper Rates Of Service.) When Such A Pad Is Available Why Not Using It For A Time Saving, Cost Effective, Secured Method Of Voting.

The Concept Is As Follows:

• Every Citizen Above The Age Of 18 Years Has Got The Right To Vote And Hence Obtaining Their Fingerprints And Storing In The Database Along With Their Birth/Death Record Becomes Necessary.
• User Sends His scanned finger vein (Secured Print Is Encrypted and Sent as Sequence of Data in Encoded Form) To the Service Provider.
• Service Provider Verifies The Fingerprint And Checks For The Validity Of Voting And Sends Voter List (A Mobile Ballot Paper) Through Sims.
• User Casts His Vote And Sends 2nd Message.


Strength of SMS:

SMS – Short Messaging Services is a new global language that evolved in the faceless communication.15 billion character-based messages per month are sent worldwide.SMS @ 0.50 Repurchase of greeting cards slashed with SMS greetings.


Conclusion:

Today, the development and widespread use of information technologies is changing the way people view Voting processes and, ultimately, the way they vote. Recent advances in biometric technology have resulted in increased accuracy at reduced costs; biometric technologies are positioning themselves as the foundation for many highly secure identification and personal verification solutions. Today's biometric solutions provide a means to achieve fast, user-friendly authentication with a high level of accuracy and cost savings. Many areas will benefit from biometric technologies.