190709 - updated readme

README.md

@@ -2,10 +2,71 @@
 
 ## Team Pepperoni
 
+Earlier this year, India faced the largest number of eligible citizens to vote for the 
+national government making it the biggest democratic elections in the world. At such a large scale, 
+every small decision makes a huge difference. Every vote can decide the future of the nation.
 ### Current Problems and Issues
 
-### Our Solution/ Idea abstract
+The biggest problem we face today, is the tampering of votes by Manipulation of the Public or
+	polling booths being taken over by various organizations to benifit a political party. 
+	In a country as large as India, such actions take away the right to vote freely from many citizens.
 
-### Major Functionalities and Tech Stack
+	Another problem is people who don't vote. The 2 major reasons for this is, 
+	i) Timely Constraints
+	ii) Assigned Poll Station is far from the current residence of the citizen.
 
-### References
+	This year, many eligible citizens were first-time voters who study in college and cannot afford to travel
+	back to their place of recidence. 
+### Our Proposal
+  A Blockchain is a chain of entries in a ledger which is shared among a group of users who
+authorize any transaction through the Blockchain. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the 
+previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data. 
+
+	By leveraging the power of the cloud and Security of the Blockchain Technology, we aim to  
+create a system which prevents vote tampering and allows people to vote freely.
+
+	Our system consits of the normal poll station, with the following modifications -
+
+	- A biometric fingerprint verification to confirm the vote by the citizen deployed and connected using Azure IoT Hub
+	- Detection of illegal equipment and weapony using Image Recognition Technology and Deep Learning using Azure Kubernetes
+	- Acceptance, Storage and calculation of votes per party using Azure Blockchain. 
+	- Visualizing voter data from various poll stations using PowerBI. 
+	- Releasing a report and predicting the women voters thing (AKSHATHA PLEASE FINISH IT OFF)
+
+#### Working:
+
+	The cameras setup at the poll station continuously scan for any illegal equipment / weapons.
+	The Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) accepts votes if the camera detects no such equipment 
+	that is flagged illegal. Once the citizen chooses the party, the biometric fingerprint scanner
+	waits for verification and once verified, the vote is permanently stored in the poll-station blockchain.
+	Assuming fingerprint data is already provided by the Unique Identification Authority of the country.
+
+	Each poll station in a region (like a district) maintains a copy of the ledger for that region. 
+	All the votes in a particular region is then totalled to compute the national total. 
+
+	In case of a flagged illegal equipment, the system automatically stops accepting further votes until
+	the required personnel arrive and activate the system again with increased security. 
+	Our system can help the personnel conducting elections in a region to help it go fairly. 
+	Increasing security depends purely on the decision of the personnel conducting the elections.
+
+	The system also helps people who are away from their areas of recidence to vote for their representative.
+	Unless the citizen is confirmed permanent residence somewhere else, the system allows him/her to vote for
+	their representative upon logging in to an EVM anywhere in the country. A query is passed through the system network
+	which then sends the data of the voter to the blockchain which holds data of the region he/she is 
+	registered to reside at. An entry is made in the blockchain of that district.  
+
+	We also plan to create an application which automatically sorts the voters every day based on their preffered
+	time to vote (given they already mentioned it in the voters online portal) and their distance from the nearest
+	poll station. This helps to minimize the queues in a poll station and evenly distribute the load among poll-stations
+	in a region.
+
+	Our system tries to make voting more convenient by allowing people in a region to vote in any poll station in that region
+	and distant - voters to vote for their representatives at their area of recidency. All of this is made possible by the 
+	our voting portal which runs on all EVMs that upon login, shows the voter, the parties of his/her registered area
+	of residency.
+
+
+### Technologies Used
+  Azure Blockchain, Azure IoT Hub, PowerBI, Azure Kubernetes, Embedded microcomputers to host the image recognition algorithms
+	locally. TensorFlow, Python and C++
+