Is the biometric data used in voter identification at polling stations?
Mongolia
Article 89
Polling in polling stations
89.3. A voter who comes to the polling station to cast his/her vote shall have his/her fingerprint checked by authorized staff of the state administrative authority in charge of state registration as part of the polling station, and the staff shall check the voter’s data against the voters’ registration in the civil registration national database and the electronic copy of the list of voters of the respective election precinct, and if no contradiction is found, a voter registration bill shall be handed.
Technical problems related to biometric voter identification and the electronic vote count machines were the main reasons observed for the late opening of 17 polling stations.
According to the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission Final Report, Mongolia, Parliamentary Elections, 29 June 2016, while the EMB is not in charge of collecting voter registration data, the national civil register uses biometric data to collect data. The law on election states that “the soft copy of the list of voters shall be based on biometric data (fingerprint) of citizens.”
