As biometric voter registration increases, Brookings looks to India for lessons
The proposed integration of the Aadhaar biometric national ID and India’s voter registration database will set an important precedent for…
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.
The proposed integration of the Aadhaar biometric national ID and India’s voter registration database will set an important precedent for…
Israel-based Pangea has won a contract to supply technology to the Electoral Commission of Jamaica to support the establishment and…
An investigation into the events surrounding recent elections in Kenya provides a bleak outlook for this August’s general election. More…
Thales has been hired to modernize Jamaica’s electronic voter ID system, strengthening voter identification and authentication with fingerprint biometrics, reports…
The chairman of Nigeria’s National Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has announced that the biometric Continuous Voter Registration…
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission of Kenya (IEBC) says it is suspending the second phase of the Enhanced Continuous…
The second phase of a mobile biometric voter registration in Zimbabwe was officially ended on April 30 by the country’s…
The over one million Nigerians identified as having been involved in irregular practices in the course of the ongoing biometric…
Nigeria’s National Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that more than one million enrollments on the biometric Register of Voters,…
Accusations of improper digital ID and biometric data sharing have been leveled against the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) after…