Is technology used for identifying voters at polling stations (electronic poll books)?

Bolivia

Bolivia

Answer
No
Source

Plurinational Electoral Body of Bolivia (Órgano Electoral Plurinacional), Election material regulations (Reglamento material electoral), accessed 25 August 2025

Article 21. (Distribution of Electoral Material).
I. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal, in electoral processes, referendums, or recall elections of national scope, shall distribute the electoral material to the Departmental Electoral Tribunals seven (7) calendar days before voting day. II. The distributed electoral material shall be delivered by the Departmental Electoral Tribunals to the Electoral Notaries at least forty-eight (48) hours before voting day for rural areas and twenty-four (24) hours before voting day for capital and intermediate cities.
III. In electoral processes, referendums, or recall elections of departmental and municipal scope, the Departmental Electoral Tribunal shall be subject to the deadlines described above.

Plurinational Electoral Body of Bolivia (Órgano Electoral Plurinacional), Regulations for Updating the Biometric Electoral Registry (Reglamento Para La Actualización Del Padrón Electoral Biométrico), accessed 25 August 2025

Article 39. (Submission of lists by polling station to the departmental electoral courts)
I. Once the data processing and configuration stage is complete, the National Directorate of the Sereci (National Electoral Registry) will, through defined programs (web services), send the Biometric Electoral Register to the TEDs in accordance with the electoral calendar.
II. The Biometric Electoral Register contains the records of eligible and ineligible citizens and will have the following structure:
1. Unique citizen identifier
2. Last name and first name, in alphabetical order
3. Type and number of personal identification document
4. Sex
5. Date of birth
6. Educational level
7. Address
8. Country of birth and nationality
9. Date of registration and/or update
10. Status and type of registration
11. Polling station precinct and number
12. Procedure number
13. Photograph.

Comment

Although the Departmental Electoral Tribunals (election agencies for each subnational jurisdiction, i.e. ‘departments’) are provided the Biometric Electoral Roll in digital format (see Capítulo VI, Sección VII, Artículo 39 of the Regulation for Updating the Biometric Electoral Roll [RUBER]), the polling stations themselves rely on printed lists of the roll (see Capítulo III, Artículo 21 of the Regulation of Electoral Materials).

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