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If electoral register is created by the EMB, what type of technology used for collecting registration data?

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Botswana

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Scanning technology for processing registration forms (Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) or Optical Character Recognition (OCR))
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Victor Shale 2009 'Chapter 3: Botswana' IN Denis Kadima and Susan Booysen (eds) Compendium of Elections in Southern Africa 1989-2009: 20 Years of Multiparty Democracy, EISA, Johannesburg, 74.

An improvement in the registration exercise was the acquisition of an Optimal Mark Reading scanning system, in 2003. This led to a modification of the registration form making it compatible with the Optical Mark Reading scanner.
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An improvement in the registration exercise was the acquisition of an Optimal Mark Reading scanning system, in 2003. This led to a modification of the registration form making it compatible with the Optical Mark Reading scanner.
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