Elections are at the heart of every democratic society, but traditional voting options are still afflicted by accessibility, security, transparency, and efficiency issues. Even with the advent of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), there are still issues related to tampering, voting access limitations for some groups, auditing, and slow result tallies. This work proposes an AI-powered online voting system that employs artificial intelligence, blockchain, and biometric authentication to provide a secure, accessible, and transparent voting experience. The goal of the system is to increase overall voting accessibility, by allowing remote voting for demographics, such as migrant workers, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), the elderly persons, and physically challenged people. This is done by providing mobile and web-based platforms. In some cases, election officials can visit the homes of disabled voters to offer a tablet-based voting. The system provides biometric or One-Time Password (OTP) based voter authentication to ensure election security. It includes anomaly detection via Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify suspicious voting patterns, and blockchain counting to provide a record that cannot be tampered with.

The proposed AI-based online voting technology addresses the issues in the traditional electoral methods. With the introduction of artificial intelligence, biometrics, and blockchain technology, the online voting system will be secure, transparent, and inclusive. It effectively addresses conventional challenges of electoral processes such as impersonation of votes, tampering with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), inaccessibility of voting from remote locations and with disabilities, and delays in counting votes and auditing of elections. By using AI, the reliability of elections can be improved. Blockchain technology helps in keeping each vote immutable and valid. It also serves as auditable and legitimate mechanism for storing election data. Further, it allows future verification and tracking of votes. The proposed tool facilitates blocking the government services, for the citizens not participating in the elections. Use of online voting platform helps for remote voting. Mobile based voting provides a scalable, digital, and reliable way for voting. Ultimately, it strengthens the electoral process and preserves the democratic values globally, by promoting trust, access to elections, and participation.

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