Secure E-Voting System with biometric and wavelet based watermarking technique in YCgCb color space

`Secure Voting System´ is heart of any democracy. There are number of nationwide voting system adopted all over the world, but each of them has their own shortfalls. The remote internet voting systems still suffer many problems. These are reasons, why manual voting is still in practice in many developing and developed nations in this internet era also. Thus, complete, strongly secured and user friendly `E-Voting System´ is need of time. The aim of this paper is to present multilayer secured, internet based voting system using biometric and wavelet based image watermarking. Strongly secured watermarking technique for voter´s color photograph in YCgCb color space is processed by embedding voter´s fingerprint as watermark. The watermark embedding is done securely through number of levels. This technique yields Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) up to 54.26 and Normalised Correlation (NC) equals to 1 indicating exact recovery of fingerprint. The complete system is maintained `user friendly´.