Tarlac 2nd district representative Susan Yap, author of House Bill 908, said the use of biometrics in voter registration has been validated as a reliable way of confirming the identity of a person.
Biometics involves electronic recording of applicants’ photographs and signature, as well as his or her fingerprints.
Yap said the country “must move… towards the full automation of election starting from registration to the automated recognition of voters in their respective precincts come election [time].”
Republic Act 8189, or the Voters Registration Act of 1996, declares that, “It is the policy of the State to systematize the present method of registration in order to establish a clean, complete, permanent and updated list of voters.”
Out of the estimated 48 million registered voters in the country, about 24 million have not yet undergone the biometrics process, according to Yap.
“They will have to register anew or validate their registration. They will be required to appear before the election officer of their place of registration to verify their record and undergo the biometrics process,” eh said.
In addition to the use of biometrics in the registration process, the bill also seeks the use of biometrics technology in the actual voting process.
Under the proposed law, a “system shall be established wherein electronic data generated by biometric registration shall be available to election officers at the precinct level for them to identify the voter.”
To implement the project, a centralized and interactive computerized national voter registration list or database will be created, said yap.
“Every registrant is assigned a unique key to identify him or her. Also, this list shall be coordinated with other agency databases… This system will ultimately cure the perennial problem of multiple registrants and flying voters,” Yap said.
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Quelle/Source: Newsbytes Philippines, 25.05.2011
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