Polling officials were forced to resort to manual identity checks after the internet went out during Uganda’s presidential and parliamentary elections. The country had originally planned to rely on biometric […]

As cases of COVID-19 surge in Brazil, the country’s Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has announced that it will be suspending biometric authentication in the coming municipal elections this year in […]

The IT Consultant for Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) says that four companies have been shortlisted for the contract to supply the EC with the Biometric Verification System for the country’s […]

Ghana’s Electoral Commission (or “EC”) announced that it plans to pursue a new biometric voter registration system for the coming general elections in 2020. This news comes despite the fact […]

Results from Afghanistan’s presidential election have been pushed back for a second time, announced officials from the Independent Election Commission (IEC). In an election already marred by record-low voter turnout, […]

Biometrics News Afghanistan’s first presidential election to use biometric voter verification is now underway, with election officials expressing great confidence in the legitimacy of the process even as voter turnout […]

Afghanistan is poised to proceed with biometric voter verification technologies in this year’s election, but mismanagement and technical issues threaten to mar the process. The plan had been to enhance […]

Mobile voting is a step closer to mainstream legitimacy, with authorities in Denver having concluded a successful audit of a mobile voting system deployed in a municipal election this past […]

“Comelec has proven to be a pioneering elections body on the global stage with its collection of voters’ biometric data, used for identity verification during polling.” The Philippines’ 2019 general […]