If electoral register is created by the EMB, what type of technology used for collecting registration data?
South Africa
Answer
Scanning technology for processing registration forms (Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) or Optical Character Recognition (OCR))
Source
IEC 2009 Elections report, p. 61: http://www.elections.org.za/content/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=1287
Comment
During the two voter registration drives in November 2008 and February 2009, more than seven million voters were scanned using the new scanners.
