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

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

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Scanning technology for processing registration forms (Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) or Optical Character Recognition (OCR))
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On December 2, 2012, the people of Burkina Fasoelected 127 members of parliament together with 18,584 municipal officials inthe first concurrent elections to be held in the small West African nation.Some 4.4 million Burkinab?s cast their votes at 14,687 polling places. Theelections were the first to be held since the introduction of a new biometricvoter registration system.

http://www.gemalto.com/brochures/download/gov-burkina.pdf

 

According to the Independent National ElectoralCommission of Burkina Faso, biometric voter registration took place from 1stJune to 16th August 2012. http://www.ceni.bf/?q=fichier-electoral.html

 

Optical Mark recognition was used by CENI Burkina Fasoto complete the registration forms. This is according to the DRS website

http://www.drs.co.uk/burkina-voter-reg.html
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