Adruino-Based Voter's Identification Using Fingerprint Scanner With Paralax Data Acquisition Tool

The electoral system in the Philippines is that the voters are stamped with indelible ink to keep them from voting twice. These days, identity theft and double-vote casting during elections are increasingly alarming. With this, the researchers decided to develop an Adruino-Based Fingerprint Scanner for Voter Identification that sends their information to excel through Parallax Data Acquisition Tool. The only work of PLX-DAQ in this study is to send the voter's information. The study focuses mainly on the identification and verification of the voters' fingerprints and includes the registration of students' fingerprints. It will be used during JIECEP mock elections and will not be used for counting votes. During registrations, the system has the list of 5th-year ECE students along with their specific fingerprint IDs. The student must scan first their fingerprints and if their fingerprints will not be identified by the system, they must be deleted from the system, and can now proceed to enroll their new fingerprints. Before the voting starts, the students will scan their fingerprints to verify if they were enrolled in the system, and after the verification, if scanned fingerprints were matched with fingerprints enrolled, the student will be able to vote, otherwise the student is not allow to vote. Once a person is a verified voter, his/her information will be transferred to Excel Spreadsheet. Thus, this study provides for a fully automated and reliable voter's identification system with fingerprint-based authentication. It has been proven that identity theft and double vote casting will be prevented using Adruino-Based Voter's Identification Using Fingerprints Scanner with Parallax Acquisition Tool.