Design and development of text-to-speech enabled electronic voting machine
P. Negedu · Journal of Management and Technology. · 2023
Electronic voting machine has received tremendous researches in recent times with improvement in its capabilities. However, most electronic voting machine has limitation in terms of the number of parties it can accommodate and unfriendly to visually impaired persons. This paper incorporates text-to-speech functionality into the electronic voting so as to provide user friendliness to visually impaired persons and also for election announcement. The major components used to achieve this aim are: Arduino Mega 2560, SM630 fingerprint scanner, RFID scanner and keypad matrix. This present electronic voting machine which meets the key requirements for convenience, transparency, flexibility, accuracy, eligibility, uniqueness, auditability, confidence and privacy.