The document proposes a mobile voting system using iris recognition and cryptography. Voters would register through a website providing identification details. On voting day, authenticated voters would receive an encrypted SMS with candidate lists. Voters would select a candidate and the vote would be encrypted before transmission. The system aims to increase voter participation and security while reducing costs compared to traditional voting methods. However, mobile voting systems also face challenges regarding security, reliability, and preventing multiple votes.

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VOTE THROUGHMOBILE-IRIS RECOGNITION
AND CRYPTOGRAPHICTECHNIQUE
VASIM HASINA.S
III YEAR,ECE
SARANATHAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
TRICHY.
ABSTRACT
With the advancement of electronics, mobile
communication technology leads us to a fast
moving world. In this scenario, we have lot of
responsibilities, one of it is voting for our
country, but even we don't have time for it,
and also our votes may not useful to our
nation, because of fake votes and cheating
process during the election. This problem is
rectified by the latest voting system as “VOTE
THROUGH MOBILE” which is discussed in
this paper. The mobile voting system uses the
efficient techniques, iris recognition and
cryptography for the secured voting process.
The iris recognition and cryptography avoids
the fake votes and cheating process. The
election commission spends lot of money, for
each election unnecessarily, which will be
minimized by this system..
1.INTRODUCTION:
Mobile voting system use the iris recognition
and cryptography techniques, for voting
purpose, the encryption algorithm is uploaded
in the mobile phone. As like the eye scanner
which scans the iris is fixed in the mobile, so
the mobile phone having camera is preferred
for that. To obtain the voting the voters eye
iris is recognized. During the transmission
from the source (mobile) to destination
(election database system) the data is
encrypted using the encryption algorithm. The
data sending and receiving is doing with the
help of the mobile networks.
In our system the voting can be done in
our place remotely without standing in a queue
for a long time with less expensive techniques.
computerized. In general, Phone Voting
System (MPVS) provides mobility feature.
Internet voting there is a wide range of
criticism.
Without eliminating the security
threats like buying a vote and Coercion, online
registration, secrecy of ballot, anonymity of

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voter and double voting this latest technology
can’t be allowed.
An efficient and reliable system is
essential for the trustworthy and successful
implementation of this technology. The
proposed system uses mobile phone device
having: small in size, low power, low-price as
compared to computers and Direct Recording
Electronic voting System, Electronic Voting
Machine’s, provide mobility feature and
security. Proposed system uses Global System
for Mobile Communication technology which
is a secure and globally used mobile
technology in the current situation. Mobile
phone also uses Subscriber Identity Module
technology which provides user identity
privacy, user identity verification and
subscriber data secrecy providing more
security to the proposed system.
The key features of our proposed
Mobile Phone Voting System is:
1. Eligibility: only authorized voter can
cast their vote.
2. Uniqueness: Each user can cast their only
one vote.
3. Integrity: Valid vote should not be modified
or deleted.
4. Fairness: The election result should not be
accessible before the official time ended.
5. Secrecy: No one should be able to find how
voter cast their vote.
2.LITERATURE REVIEW:
Voting through the mobile phone it is
the new and advanced area of research. We
take the review of some IEEE papers which
presented in past.
[1] Proposes mobile phone voting system
developed on modular square root and blind
signature system uses confidentiality of voter,
secrecy of ballot, voter anonymity and no
computation cost and communication
overhead. CA (certificate authority) involves
as third party that is distribution of certificates
to voters is the responsibility of CA for
authentication purposes, delayed occurred
which make the process slow.
[2] Proposed GSM based mobile phone voting
system is used to cast vote without registering
for voting in advance and going to polling
booths. System prevents repetition voting but
It has big disadvantage to security, proposes
system does not used any cryptographic
algorithm.
[3] Proposed mobile phone voting system
based on public key encryption algorithm
RSA. It contains three parts: access control;
voting and election administrator server. First
part holds validation and identification for the
voters.
Voting part done by ciphering voter data using
RSA algorithm and last part is the election
administrator server classifies ending result
using decryption RSA private key for received

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encrypted data. There is no any online
registration, more expensive computational
cost and communication overhead due to RSA
algorithm.
2.1 PROPOSED SYSTEM:
Our propose system provide online
registration of voter and also offline
registration is available for voter in case of
failure of online registration. After registration
voter will cast their vote and result will
display. For proposed system it required five
elements
 Mobile Phone, Election Commission Server
(ECS);
 Election Commission Databases (ECD);
 Vote Collecting and Result Phase Server
(VCRPS) and
 Election Commission Office (ECO).
Proposed system consists of three steps:
A. Online registration phase
B. Voting phase
C. Vote collection and result phase
A. Online Registration Phase:
In this phase we will provide the one
highly secured website for registration
purpose.
After that user have to SIGN IN there
and fill its whole information including NIC
and SIM card number. After pressing submit
button, server send one public key to them
which encrypt the whole information and send
over the server. And then server sends one
secret symmetric key to user. User must have
to keep this key secret. Because this key is
required on day of election. Election
commission server should keep two updated
databases. First database consists of public
NIC’s and second database contained SIM
cards from the concern authorities for user
verification and authentication purposes at the
registration time. Short Message Services
(SMS) is used throughout voting process
without the need of internet. ECS will create
two key, first one is a public key and second
one is a private key. The ECS will keep only
private key secret and will put public key on
its server.
Fig.1. Online Registration phase

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Fig.2.FlowchartforRegistrationphase
1) In the first step user will send their
National Identity Card No + SIM Card No +
Symmetric Key which encrypt with public key
of ECS to ECS server.
2) When ECS receiving data they will
decrypt this data with his private key.
3) ECS will verify the user’s NIC and
SIM card number with its two latest databases,
one consist public NIC numbers and other
database consist SIM card numbers.
4) If ECS verified that user is authentic
then,
5) ECS will send PIN encrypted with
user symmetric key to the user. This PIN will
be used for the authenticity of the voter in the
latter stages of the election process.
6) Receiving this user will decrypt the
PIN with his/her symmetric key. User should
securely keep their PIN from disclosing to
others because it’s disclosing will
compromised confidentiality.
7) When Mobile phone user got PIN
then Mobile phone user will send
acknowledgement message to election
commission server .Mobile phone user will
become certified as mobile phone voter. Here
online registration phase will be completed.
8) This is offline registration phase
which will be used in case someone registers
his/herself on genuine user credentials.
9) When the genuine user registering
his/herself with election commission server,
ECS will send registration problem message of
can’t be register through online registration
phase and will requested his/her to come to
ECO for correction of their registration as
someone already register his/herself on
genuine user credentials.
10) In this case user should go to
election commission Office. The previous
registration will be canceled and genuine user
will be register.
11) Election commission office (ECO).
B. Voting Phase:
1) In this phase, ECS will send
candidate list to authenticated voter according
to their constituency via SMS encrypted with
voter symmetric key.
This will ensure that the candidate list
message only send to the authenticated voter

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list. This method also prevents unauthorized
voter to cast their vote...
2) After that voter will receive the
SMS of candidate list on voting day.
3) In this step voter will select their
candidate from the candidate list. After
selecting their candidate voter will then send
the message to ECS with public key, candidate
PIN encrypt both with user symmetric key and
again concatenate NIC number and send to
ECS via SMS.
4) ECS will find user symmetric key
using NIC number. Then it will decrypt the
remaining SMS part with user symmetric key.
ECS will mark only the PIN part of the
message for the record purposes and to avoid
double voting. The remaining encrypted
candidate list message will be forwarded to the
vote collecting and result phase server.
Fig.3.Voting phase
Fig.4. Flowchart for voting phase
C. Vote Collection and Result Phase Server
1) Before the start of the election, we used
time lock mechanism which will not accept
vote after time end on VCRPS. It will keep the
vote in encrypted form until the official time
of the election ended. Implementing this
restriction on this server, the decryption of the
votes will be started after the end of the
election time. The third party will not see the
result before the official time ends, thus it
prevents to seeing of the election results.
2) After ending of voting phase, vote will be
decrypt by using ECS private key.
3) At end of the process, votes will be counted
and the results will be officially display to the
public.

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Fig.6.Flowchart for result phase
2.2 SECURITYALGORITHAM:
Security is provided to our proposed system by
using RSA algorithm.
A simple explanation of the RSA
algorithm is that it was made for public-key
cryptography, which is based on factoring
large integers. The steps involved are RSA
algorithm are key generation, encryption, and
decryption.
A. Key Generation: Whoever wants to
receive secret messages creates a public key
(which is published) and a private key (kept
secret). The keys are generated in a way that
conceals their construction and makes it
'difficult' to find the private key by only
knowing the public key.
B. Encryption: A secret message to any
person can be encrypted by his/her public key
(that could be officially listed like phone
numbers).
C. Decryption: Only the person being
addressed can easily decrypt the secret
message using the private key.

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3.MOBILE VOTING SYSTEM
Mobile Voting System (MVS) is a system that
will operate in parallel with the existing
manual and automated voting processes. It will
enable legitimate voters to cast their vote from
wherever they please using their mobile
devices unlike other means that require the
voter to appear at the polling station and a
graphical display will be available on a site
(attached to the system) for all stakeholders to
view progress, hence ensuring transparency.
There are systems such as DRE (Direct
Electronic Recording) voting machines that
record the vote without that vote being
transmitted over the Internet or another
network in e-voting. The interface of a DRE
machine can be a touch screen or a scanner
that scans the ballot paper where the voter
marked the vote.
The vote is then registered and stored in the
voting machine. Then there is voting over the
Internet that uses a PC with an Internet-
connection to cast the vote and send it to be
stored in another remote computer. Personal
Digital Assistants (PDA’s), telephones or
mobile phones can also be used to cast a vote
electronically.
Besides its hype and advantages over
traditional voting systems, MVS reliability,
security and transparency are still issues that
limit its deployment in many countries.
Mobile Voting still faces a number of risks
and challenges.
Risks:
1. Third parties: Unauthorized intervention of
third parties in the voting process.
2. Errors and technical malfunctions: More
difficult to detect and identify the source of
errors and technical malfunctions.
3. Unreliability: Possibility that fully digitized
system would fail to produce results and lack
physical back-up records, making a public
recount difficult or impossible.
Challenges:
1. Security: In the context of remote e-voting,
special attention should be given to the process
guaranteeing a free and secret vote. Only
entitled voters are allowed to cast a vote and
this requires that every voter be authenticated
(e.g. by using a PIN -Personal Identification
Number or TAN -Transaction Number or by
the use of digital signature) and their right to
vote verified. In order to prevent multiple
votes being cast or other misuse, a record must
be made and checked in order to establish
whether the voter has already cast a vote.
There must be an electronic separation
between the vote and the identification of the
voter.

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2. Reliability: Mobile Voting Systems have to
interact with some database server, or some
other server, over a network.
3. There might be instances when this network
goes down during the voting process to Keep
the network stable and available during the
voting process is a challenge that MVS
application developers need to consider.
Mobile Voting Systems are composed of
several interacting agents, the Vote Collector,
the Vote Manager, the Vote Authority, the
Candidate, and the Voters. The Vote Authority
(VA) is responsible for registering candidates
for elections and commissioning Vote
Managers. The Vote Collector (VC) is a
mobile agent mandated by a stationary Vote
Manager (VM) agent to collect votes from
stationary voting agents (VOs). The
arrangement of the system in such components
can ensure a stable system suitable for voting.
Usage of Mobile Voting Systems:
Today, the development and widespread use of
information technologies is changing the way
people view voting processes and, ultimately,
the way they vote.
Mobile Voting Systems offer multiple
advantages over traditional paper-based voting
systems-advantages that increase citizen
access to democratic processes and encourage
participation.
Reduced costs - E-voting system reduces the
materials required for printing and distributing
ballots.
Increased participation and voting options -
E-voting offers increased convenience to the
voter encourages more voters to cast their
votes remotely, and increases the likelihood of
participation for mobile voters.
Greater speed and accuracy placing and
tallying votes -E-voting's step-by-step
processes help minimize the number of
miscast votes. The electronic gathering and
counting of ballots reduces the amount of time
spent tallying votes and delivering results.
Greater accessibility for the disabled and
the sick - Because they support a variety of
interfaces and accessibility features, e-voting
systems allow the physically challenged
people to vote independently and privately.
Flexibility - E-voting can support multiple
languages, and the flexible design allows up-
to-the-minute ballot modifications.

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3.1.Phone toPhone voting system
requirements
1.Voter can send short text message from
his/her smart phone to specific smart phone
running voting software A (Android version).
2.Upon receipt of the short text message
containing the ID number of the best poster
(only one should be selected), the said ID
number will be entered in a Tally Table with
attributes Candidate ID count.
3.The phone number of the voter will be
remembered in a Voter Table with attributes
Voter Phone No, Candidate ID, so that no
voter can use the same phone to vote twice.
4.The administrator at the smart phone running
voting software A can issue a special
command, which will terminate the voting.
The voting software A will display the Tally
Table in decreasing number of votes so that
the first winner will be displayed first and so
on. At the end the Voter Table will be
eliminated.
3.2.Phone to PC voting system
requirements
:
1.Voter can send email from his/her smart
phone to specific PC running voting software
X (Linux version).
1. 2.Upon receipt of the email containing the ID
number of the best poster (only one should be
selected), the said ID number will be entered
in a Tally Table with attributes Candidate ID,
count.
2. 3.The phone number of the voter will be
remembered in a Voter Table with attributes
Voter Phone No, Candidate ID, so that no
voter can use the same phone to vote twice.
3. 4.The administrator at the PC running voting
software X can issue a special command,
which will terminate the voting. The voting
software X will display the Tally Table in
decreasing number of votes so that the first
winner will be displayed first and so on. At the
end the Voter Table will be eliminated.

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3.3.Phone to Phone or PC voting system
requirements
:
1. An integration of the above two approaches,
so that a voter can either vote by sending short
text message to a specific smart phone, or by
sending email to a PC.
2. The voting software A on the smart phone will
forward e-mail to PC, so that the PC will
receive all the votes.
3. The final tally will be done by voting software
X, which will display the final results.
4. Both voting software A and voting software X
will eliminate its Voter Table at the end.
4. IRIS RECOGNITION:
Iris recognition is an automated
method of biometric identification that uses
mathematical pattern-recognition .
Iris recognition uses video camera
technology with subtle near
infrared illumination to acquire images of the
detail-rich, intricate structures of the iris which
are visible externally.
Databases of enrolled templates are
searched by matcher engines at speeds
measured in the millions of templates per
second per (single-core) CPU, and with
remarkably low false match rates.
4.1RIS ACQUISITION:
Iris biometrics systems do not use
laser-scans to capture the image of the human
eye. Instead, an infrared photo or video camera
is used at a set distance to capture a high
quality image of the iris. Working in the
infrared range provides many advantages
when compared to the visible range: Iris
ridges, nerves, and crypts are more evident the
border between the iris and the pupil is more
pronounced; and users are not exposed to
annoying flashes.
4.2.IRIS SEGMENTATION:
The main purpose of this process is to
locate the iris on the image and isolate it from
the rest of the eye image for further
processing.

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Some other important tasks that are also
performed in this iris segmentation block
include image quality enhancement, noise
reduction, and emphasis of the ridges of the
iris. Several proposals have been made by
different authors for iris location and
segmentation, wherein most consider iris
detections finding two circumferences that
model the iris boundaries.
Here, the iris location varies depending on
preset external and internal forces until an
equilibrium state is reached.
4.3.FEATURE EXTRACTION:
The normalization becomes necessary
when considering that the pupil varies in size
for different light intensities. After
normalization, the phase information is studied
by applying different Gabor filters. This was
followed by the codification of this
information in terms of the quadrant where the
phase belongs however, Wilds, performs the
extraction using Laplacian or Gaussian filters
by obtaining several images of different scales
for posterior comparison .
4.4.MATCHING:
Although some authors have studied other
matching algorithms the most employed
matching algorithm has been the Hamming
distance, as was initially proposed by
Daugman.
The Hamming distance is described by the
following equation: where is the vector length
and are the component of the template and
sample vector, respectively, which are XOR in
the equation. If the distance obtained is below
a predefined threshold level, the studied
sample is considered to belong to the user
whose template is being studied. Selection of
the threshold level usually depends on the final
application.
4.5. STAGES INVOLVED IN IRIS
DETECTION
It includes Three Main Stages
2.3.1) Image Acquisition and Segmentation
2.3.2) Image Normalization
2.3.3) Feature Coding and Matching
5.CRYPTOGRAPHIC
TECHNIQUES:
Cryptography is one of the essential
technologies used in building a secure VPN.
Different applications of the same basic
algorithms can provide both encryptions that
keep data secret and authentication that
ensures the two security peers in a VPN are
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Data confidentiality may be provided
by one of two categories of encryption
algorithm, namely symmetric cryptography
and asymmetric cryptography. Symmetric, or
conventional, cryptography requires that the
sender and receiver share a key, which is an
item of secret information used to encrypt and
decrypt data. The process by which two peers
agree upon a key over an insecure medium can
be problematic as, until the key is agreed, the
peers have no way to communicate in secret.
Asymmetric, or Public Key, cryptography
solves the key exchange problem by using two
keys, either of which may be used to encrypt a
message. The encrypted data may then only be
decrypted by means of the other key.
Messages may be received securely by
publishing one of the keys (for example, in the
footer of an e-mail message) as a Public Key
and keeping the second, the Private Key,
secret. Anyone wishing to send a secure
communication may then encrypt the message
with the recipient’s Public Key and, providing
the Private Key has not been disclosed, only
the intended recipient will be able to decrypt
the encrypted text and recover the original
message.
Cryptography or cryptology;
From Greek, "hidden, secret"; and "writing",
or "study", respectively is the practice and
study of techniques for secure
communication in the presence of third parties
called adversaries.]These adversaries are often
referred to as Eve in cryptography, while the
sender and recipient of messages are called
Alice and Bob respectively. Cryptography is
about constructing and
analyzing protocols that prevent third parties
or the public from reading private messages.
Various aspects in information security such
as data confidentiality, data
integrity, authentication, and non-
repudiation[5] are central to modern
cryptography. Modern cryptography exists at
the intersection of the disciplines
of mathematics, computer science,
and electrical engineering. Applications of
cryptography include ATM cards, computer
passwords, and electronic commerce.
The originator of an encrypted
message (Alice) shared the decoding technique
needed to recover the original information
only with intended recipients (Bob), thereby
precluding unwanted persons (Eve) from
doing the same.

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Cryptographic algorithms are designed
around computational hardness assumptions,
making such algorithms hard to break in
practice by any adversary. It is theoretically
possible to break such a system, but it is
infeasible to do so by any known practical
means. These schemes are therefore termed
computationally secure; theoretical advances,
e.g., improvements in integer
factorization algorithms, and faster computing
technology require these solutions to be
continually adapted. There exist information-
theoretically secure schemes that provably
cannot be broken even with unlimited
computing power.
Cryptography also plays a major role
in digital rights management and piracy of
digital media.
5. SCOPE:
In our proposed system registration
process done through website which minimize
time, energy and cost. Voting done through the
SMS provides mobility option to the voter.
Because of RSA security double voting will
prevented dandy offer choice to the public to
cast their vote through their cell phone. If this
system is implemented using cloud computing
then it has a scope to use in government
elections.
6. CONCLUSION:
This paper proposes mobile phone
voting system avoiding double voting in case
of casting ballots first from mobile phone and
then from pooling booth, it is more useful,
efficient and reliable in mobile phone voting
process. This system does not require any
internet facility, decreases expensive hardware
cost and it requires only mobile phone and
SIM card.
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