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…
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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…
Nigerian group calls for extension as up to 11M fail to complete biometric voter registration
Nigeria’s National Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) is facing heat from civil society groups to extend once more the deadline for…
India to attempt to deduplicate electoral roll via ‘voluntary’ Aadhaar-voter ID link
A campaign to encourage all voters in India to link their voter ID to their Aadhaar accounts, aimed at aiding…
Nigeria’s electoral commission pushes biometric voter registration deadline to 31 July
The Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) has set 31 July, 2022, as the deadline for the continuous biometric…
Kenya to use biometrics first, ID number second for voter verification in August election
Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has determined that voters’ identities will be verified for eligibility in the upcoming…
Nigerian courts blocks deadline for biometric voter registration
Voter registration will continue in Nigeria, after a Federal High Court blocked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from implementing…
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…
Fears for a safe 2022 election in Kenya as investigation paints murky picture of EC, Idemia
An investigation into the events surrounding recent elections in Kenya provides a bleak outlook for this August’s general election. More…
