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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A DIGITAL VOTING SYSTEM WITH FINGERPRINT CAPTURE AND INTERNET -BASED TRANSMISSION OF RESULTS USING THINKSPEAK
Gertrude Fischer, Godwin Umana and Ekpenyong Nsa Oku*
ABSTRACT
The argument for improving Nigeria's electoral process is based on the idea that doing so will lessen systemic manipulation and ensure that votes are counted. Additionally, the enhancement aims to increase the range of participation and foster confidence, which will eventually provide elections legitimacy and guarantee that the government is answerable to the people. This project involves the design and Implementation of a digital voting system with fingerprint capture and internet-based transmission of results. It is done to help solve the problem of certain irregularities realized during the accreditation and voting exercises. Using this project helps to reduce all thoseirregularities by capturing voters' fingerprint data, storing them in the database as part of the accreditation process then allowing those accredited voters cast their voted through their fingerprint during the voting process. The project is designed using the ESP32 module, R307 fingerprint sensor and the 16×2 LCD screen. Every direction to be provided by the system during both the accreditation and voting exercise are all displayed on the LCD to help the voter communicate with the system. All voting results are being transmitted to the internet in seconds after each vote is cast using the ThingSpeak platform. Each of these voting systems can be used to carry out accreditation for a maximum of 1000 candidates. More of these systems can be secured to handle larger number of candidates in cases where more than 1000 candidates are needed. This system can be used in small election circles like within groups, organizations as well as larger gatherings like campuses and as well for both local, state and at the federal level. The use of this system provides voters uninterruptible access to the voting collation process where they can monitor the upload of results from the respective polling units.
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