Design and Implementation of Alternative Power Supply Operating Electronic Voting Machine Using PIC16F877A Microcontroller

Abstract

Electronic voting systems have the potential to improve traditional voting procedures by providing added convenience and flexibility to the voter. Numerous electronic voting schemes have been proposed in the past, but most of them have failed to provide voter authentication in an efficient and transparent way. This Electronic voting machine designed with integrated power supply (it works on solar ,Ac mains and rechargeable battery) so that one can use it everywhere at any time regardless of being urban or rural, in absence or presence of Ac ,being day time or night . It is designed in such a way that a voter can act by reading instruction displayed on the LCD how long to wait , when to press candidate switch and weather his/her vote is registered or not. This machine enables voting process secure by allowing a voter to cast only once. This is achieved by master switch placed for the election observers and the result is also managed by the authorized body after activating count button. This paper deals with the design of microcontroller based Electronic Voting Machine