Fingerprint and Barcode Reader for Voting System

Elections process in Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) is neither traditional nor electronic even until several months ago. It was in a fully traditional system (paper ballot) and pen before the computer-internet or information communication technology (ICT) era. For example; the elections that are completed by traditional methods are inappropriate any more due to the long period preparation experiences, being a slow-paced process and corruption. Apart from those mentioned before the voters and Elections polling staffs must do many physical activity and efforts for Elections process (EPs). The most recent EP in the country were semi electronic Election system (SEES) with two tier architecture (2TA) by blended using of fingerprint, barcode reader, ICT and paper-ballot. SEES is not fully distributed system and far from real time approaches, but it enhanced and solves some of the traditional Elections system (TES). The attractive of the proposed system is to enhance SEE toward to electronic elections system (EES) over three tier architecture (3TA) with availability of disturbed system, results transparency, real time and, also the EES process solved time and money consuming for the government with lots of untidiness, paper work, that effect unfairness of results with free and fair voting. The Quality Improvement (QI), Quality of information (QoI) and Quality of Service (QoS) of TES is very poor if compared to SEE and EES over both 2TA and 3TA. The most recent election in the KRG was by using of some ICT technologies namely semi-electronic election (SEE) or Blended E-election (BEE), that Voters record their options confidentially by ticking the boxes next to candidate on Paper-ballot and the counting is done manually. The modification of paper-ballot to web-ballot in the proposed system is avoid paper work and create communication between dynamic web site (web-ballot), barcode reader, fingerprint and computer server over public network. The attractive of our proposed system is to improve toward fully EES with load balancing by separation of fingerprint and bar code reader as a frontend, C++ is middleware and MSQL is backend over public network and TCP protocol. The suitability of the EES measured by speed.exe application software for fingerprint and bar code reader tools, the both tools are tested one time simultaneously and another time individually in frontend. The simultaneously or individually working together both tools in front end and backend will be tested and find out the best results.