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Biometric systems are being increasingly deployed to ensure a fair and efficient election. These systems include identification solutions for voter registration, voting, tallying and identification. Common modalities include fingerprint recognition, palm vein recognition, iris recognition and facial recognition. Mobile voting systems are also included.

 

Tech5 and uqudo develop biometric remote voter verification system for Oman election

The partnership of Tech5 and uqudo has led to the deployment of their technologies for remote biometric voter identity verification…

 

Philippines urges voters to complete biometric registration by deadline

The Philippines’ Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairperson, George Garcia, has called on people eligible to vote in the October 2023…

 

Nigeria’s INEC cedes ground, extends voter ID collection deadline to 5 February

Nigerians who have registered to vote in the upcoming general elections now have until 5 February to collect their Permanent…

 

Liberia, Nigeria test biometric election equipment ahead of full deployment

Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) has begun a trial voter registration exercise to test the functionality of biometric voter registration…

 

Digital ID advances can ease online voting in Australia, former election official suggests

Australia’s former New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC) chief information officer (CIO) Ian Brightwell has suggested that digital ID credentials…

 

Nigeria election agency not ready to further extend deadline for voter ID collection

Authorities have dismissed any calls for a further extension of the current 29 January deadline for registered Nigerians to collect…

 

Philippines rejects voter registration deadline extension, upgrades IT systems

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the Philippines has denied a possible extension to the biometric voter registration procedures beyond…

 

Liberian IDs short for vote; could you clear your throat for security?

The math usually looks bad for somebody in the runup to an election, but in Liberia’s case this election year,…

 

Nigeria biometric voter register ‘99.94% solid,’ with local tech, 10M new sign-ups

Young Nigerians make up the vast majority of almost ten million new registrants for the biometric Permanent Voter Card (PVC)…

 

Philippines on course to meet biometric voter registration target for October polls

A spokesman for the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) of the Philippines Rex Laudiangco says more than one million new voters…

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