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- Whether voters are alive or dead is of vital interest to democracies
- Yet unscrupulous political operators have long voted on behalf of the dead or absent and otherwise committed electoral frauds exploiting the weaknesses of paper identification systems
- So some 50 countries now use biometric technologies, such as fingerprint readers or facial recognition technology, at some stage in their elections.On 4 October, voters in Bosnia and Herzegovina became the latest to join the biometric voting clu
What Biometric Technology Does and Doesn’t Add to Voting
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Whether voters are alive or dead is of vital interest to democracies. Yet unscrupulous political operators have long voted on behalf of the dead or absent and otherwise committed electoral frauds exploiting the weaknesses of paper identification systems. So some 50 countries now use biometric technologies, such as fingerprint readers or facial recognition technology, at some stage in their elections.On 4 October, voters in Bosnia and Herzegovina became the latest to join the biometric voting clu
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