Is technology used for identifying voters at polling stations (electronic poll books)?
Nigeria
Answer
Yes, offline/only access to polling station registration data
Source
Paragraph 4 of the of the news article written by Kayode Robert Idowu (Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman) Why INEC will not use card readers in Ekiti, Osun shows that the system that was used for registration was not an online system. The Nation Newspapers editorial asked: how did unscrupulous persons get to register more than once? The press secretary said they did so by going to different polling units in different geographical locations to register, because no one could register twice on the same Direct Data Capture (DDC) machine given the software loaded on the machines by INEC. But he added that the Commission has been able to check this abuse with the use of AFIS at the progressive levels of data consolidation and de-duplication. http://www.inecnigeria.org/?inecnews=why-inec-will-not-use-card-readers-in-ekiti-osun
Comment
The Advanced Fingerprints Identification System (AFIS) software being used by INEC for de-duplication of voters’ consolidated data automaticly retains only one instance of an individual’s data and eliminates the extras.
