Is the biometric data used in voter identification at polling stations?

Comoros

Comoros

Answer
Yes
Source

Project to support the modernization of the electoral register of the Union of the Comoros

The biometric card will allow the identification and authentication of a voter on the basis of its own recognizable data. This new biometric electoral register will take primal fingerprints and facial imagery, data that will always remain personalized and tamper-resistant. As a result, each person will become a biometric key, a unique registration in the biometric electoral register, which forces us to assert that duplicates and massive electoral fraud will be drastically reduced.
 

Launch of operations to identify new electoral files in the Union of Comoros

140 enumerators, 25 supervisors and 3 coordinators, spread over the whole country conducted these census operations, following a series of training related thereto supported by UNDP. The biometric card allows the identification and authentication of a voter on the basis of identifiable data of its own. Better yet, anyone enlisting will be identified from what they possess as identification, specifically only "national ID, passport or birth certificate card." This new biometric electoral register contained fingerprints and facial imaging data that will remain forever and custom tamper-proof forever.

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