Biometrics feature part of Brazil’s integrity test for voting machines
Some voting machines to be used for an integrity test ahead of general elections in Brazil will be activated with…
Elections
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.
Nigeria finds more ineligible registries in latest biometric deduplication round
The latest round of biometric deduplication by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has discovered many multiple and ineligible registrations…
US gets involved after Ekemp tip of Liberian biometric voter card contract win
China-based biometrics firm Ekemp allegedly listed the Liberian National Elections Commission (NEC) as one of its clients for biometric voter…
Liberia plans biometric voter registry with enrollment beginning in December
The National Elections Commission of Liberia has announced its preliminary plans for 2023, which include transitioning from optical mark recognition…
Nigeria’s INEC sued to allow biometric authentication of voters without voter cards
Nigerian businessman Dr. Ezeh Emmanuel Ezeh is asking a federal high court in Abuja to declare that the Independent National…
Kenyan election’s poll-day success belies suspicion of Smartmatic biometric voter kits
Ahead of a court challenge of the results of Kenya’s recent election, African publication The Elephant examined the role of…
Guyana election official pushes for introduction of biometric voter verification
A member of the Guyana Electoral Commission (GECOM) has submitted a motion to the electoral body asking it to make…
Voters face biometric verification kit glitches in Kenya elections, failures ‘not widespread’
Many Kenyans, both ordinary and high-profile voters, were unable to cast their ballots in time at some polling stations during…
U-turn on manual registers alongside biometric verification kits in Kenyan general elections
Printed manual voter registers are being used alongside biometric kits to authenticate the identity of millions of Kenyans who are…
India removes 9.8M entries from voter roll after biometric, demographic deduplication
A biometric de-duplication exercise carried out by the Election Commission of India (ECI) has found almost 10 million duplicate entries…
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