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Secure votes cast across 12 polling stations
IITJ Voting Electron App
Delivered a kiosk-ready desktop voting application with encrypted ballot storage, biometric verification, and admin dashboards for the IITJ election committee.
Team projectPrivate repositoryAug 2023 – Oct 2023IIT Jodhpur, India
Impact metrics
Key outcomes delivered for stakeholders
< 5s
Average biometric + OTP verification time
Highlights
Notable milestones and system improvements
- Digitised end-to-end voting flow reducing manual counting effort by 80%
- Designed role-based access control for commissioners, poll officers, and observers
- Implemented tamper detection that locked stations on suspicious state changes
Responsibilities
Where I created the most impact
- Crafted cross-platform Electron shell with offline-first caching to support remote polling booths
- Engineered Django REST services with cryptographic ballot signing and audit-ready event logs
- Integrated Aadhaar-based biometric SDK and fallback OTP verification flow
Project narrative
Snapshot of the project background, execution, and results
Project context
Manual paper-based elections were error-prone, slow, and vulnerable to manipulation.
Approach
Built a secure digital voting system with layered authentication, offline resilience, and transparent audit trails.
Impact
Used successfully in the 2023 student body elections with no disputed ballots and rapid result publication.
Stack
Tools and frameworks that powered the build
ReactDjangoPostgreSQLEncryptionBiometrics