Documents containing the Aadhaar numbers and voter identity numbers of 350 million Indian citizens have never been accounted for by…
Elections
Biometric systems are being increasingly deployed to ensure a fair and efficient election. These systems include solutions for voter registration, voting, tallying and identification. Common modalities include fingerprint recognition, palm vein recognition, iris recognition and facial recognition.
Bangladesh Election Commission fights voter fraud with Crossmatch biometric technology
Crossmatch announced today that it has completed delivery of 150,000 of its optical fingerprint modules for use in electronic voting…
Biometric technology deployed to authenticate Florida poll workers and volunteers
Two County Election Boards in Florida have selected BIO-key’s ID Director for Windows software and its EcoID fingerprint readers to…
DERMALOG biometric devices arrive in Afghanistan ahead of national elections
The Independent Election Commission (IEC) of Afghanistan has begun transferring 22,000 biometric capture devices from DERMALOG that arrived in Kabul…
BioSec introduces biometric voting solution
BioSec Group today introduced its new biometric voting solution. BS PalmVote replaces traditional identifiers with palm vein recognition and is…
Biometric device delivery for Afghan elections delayed
An expected shipment of biometric devices supplied by DERMALOG to Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) has been delayed, TOLOnews reports….
Afghanistan training election officials on biometric system as vote looms
Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) has launched a training program to teach 250 employees how to use its biometric system…
Absentee ballots cast with biometric voting system in West Virginia
U.S. military personnel and overseas voters registered in West Virginia have begun casting absentee ballots for the upcoming November 6…
Afghanistan to procure 24,000 biometric units to identify voters in upcoming elections
Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) has reached an agreement to use biometric systems to ensure the legitimacy of upcoming elections,…
New Zealand Privacy Commissioner suggests biometric app over date of birth for voter authentication
New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner has panned a plan to use date of birth as a way of authenticating online voters,…
