A Study on Secure Online Voting System using Biometrics Face Detection and Recognition Algorithms

Voting is one of the social issues for recent self-governing country. Physical voting systems have been followed for election since many years. In case of conventional voting system, voters are given a ballet paper and they have to reach the places they are allotted such as polling booths to cast their votes. This conventional method of voting have certain drawbacks such as lack of security, huge manpower is needed to retain discipline, large amount of time consumption to cast vote. To overcome these problems in conventional voting system Electronic Voting System is introduced and the voting data is stored in digital format in database and the voting can be done either in online through internet or in offline using SMS. the intent of this study is to serve an electronic voting system along with biometric technology using face detection and recognition that produce high security by detecting , recognizing and verifying their faces as their authentity and compare the face with the image and details of an individual already stored in the server database as well as in the PC and verify the match and if the face image is coincide or match with the image already stored in the database then the person is permit to cast their vote to the candidate they willing to choose. This study deals with various face detection and recognition algorithms and techniques to provide more reliable and securable user friendly system for E-Voting.