Governments grapple with biometric voter rolls, Thales reaches 15 deployments
Thales has deployed 15 different systems around the world for voter registration and verification with its ID management and biometric technologies,…
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Neurotechnology reveals ABIS caught 15K duplicate registrations for Ghana 2020 vote
The general elections in Ghana which took place on December 7, 2020, unfolded successfully with fair, transparent and credible results…
Kenya targets 7M new voters as biometric enrollment begins ahead of 2022 polls
Kenya has kicked off its biometric voter registration process as the country aims to enroll more than seven million new…
Move by Liberia to introduce biometrics in 2023 elections meets stonewall
In what looks like a denouement to a long-running standoff related to the introduction of biometrics during Liberia’s 2023 presidential…
Liberian Senate seeks consensus on introduction of biometrics for 2023 election
Liberia’s Senate has called on its Joint Committee on Autonomous Agencies and Ways, Means, Finance and Budget to meet with…
Nigeria to require face, fingerprint biometrics for Anambra State election
A system that will combine fingerprint and face biometrics for identity verification will be required to verify voters during Governorship…
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 —…
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…
