Papua New Guinea advised against using biometrics in next year’s election
Terence Wood, a Research Fellow at the Development Policy Center — an Australia-based aid and development policy think tank —…
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Online digital ID advances with 2M Nigerian voters registered
Nigeria’s Independent electoral commission (INEC) has announced that more than two million new potential voters have already completed the online…
Tanzanian president invokes need for biometric voting to curb election irregularities
A biometric voting system could already be in place when Tanzanians head to the polls to choose a new president…
No funds yet allocated to Nigeria’s 2023 digital voting plan
The Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) is increasingly concerned about the continued lack of funds for it to go…
Indian gov consults UIDAI on Aadhaar biometrics for voter registration
India’s Ministry of Law is consulting with the Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI) for the possibility of using the Aadhaar biometrics-based…
Biometric capture for PhilID partially suspended
Authorities of the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA) have temporarily put on hold the biometric capture of registrants for the national…
Nigerian States begin biometric registration for voters, stalemate persists in Liberia
Nigeria’s Lagos and Osun States have begun biometric data collection within the framework of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise…
Alleged hack of Kenya’s Biometric Voter Registration system denied by electoral agency
Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chief Wafula Chebukati has rejected claims that the country’s Biometric Voter Registration (BVR)…
Liberia elections commission, Senate bicker over biometrics introduction for 2023 polls
Plans by Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) to introduce biometric voter registration ahead of the 2023 polls as well as…
Biometric voter rolls at different stages in Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria
Papua New Guinea’s Electoral Commission (PNGEC) is seeking approval to begin identifying and verifying potential voters with a new biometric…
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