Data clean-up underway after biometric voter registration exercise in Liberia
Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) says it is working to clean up data it collected during the recently concluded biometric…
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EC presses on with plan to make Ghana Card lone ID for voter registration
Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) is hoping to be second time lucky in convincing parliament to approve its plan of making…
Liberia enrols 1.4M citizens in ‘flawed’ 1st phase biometric voter registration
The first phase of Liberia’s first-ever biometric voter registration process which saw the enrolment of 1.4 million people has been…
Unsolicited text messages to Zimbabwe voters raise data privacy concerns
Short Message Services (SMSs) sent to registered voters in Zimbabwe lately urging them to throw their support behind incumbent President…
Sole requirement of Ghana Card for voter registration rejected by parliament
A proposal from Ghana’s Electoral Commission to make the national digital ID card the sole document acceptable for voter registration…
Innovatrics revealed as biometrics supplier for Albania’s elections
Innovatrics has revealed that it supplied fingerprint biometric technology for voter authentication during Albania’s 2021 elections. An article in the…
Zimbabwe ends biometric voter registration drive with over 450K new registrants
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is set to begin expunging duplicated entries from its voter database after it completed a…
How Sierra Leone joined forces for national digital ID – ID4Africa livecast
The latest ID4Africa livecast examined the issues around social protection and how Sierra Leone planned and rolled out its digital…
Govt insists BVAS a game changer in Nigeria polls, civil society calls for NIN addition
The reactions trailing the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) is Nigeria’s general elections of 25 February and…
Explaining biometric voter registration and biometric voter authentication
BVR, which is the abbreviation for biometric voter registration, is the process by which people are enlisted onto a voter…
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