According to Nana Addo, adding a verification system to the biometric voting process would help check cases of double voting, impersonation and several other electoral malpractices that crop up during elections.
Weiterlesen: GH: Biometric voting system must be verifiable - Akufo-Addo
What is however uncertain is the kind of biometric technology the Electoral Commission is buying into and whether the biometric register that will be created will be able to stop multiple voting. Biometric verification is any means by which a person can be uniquely identified by the evaluation of a biological trait such as fingerprints, hand geometry, earlobe geometry, retina and iris patterns, voice waves, DNA or signatures. Almost certainly, the Electoral Commission will be using the finger prints trait which is the oldest form of biometric verification. In its simple from biometric in verification mode means biometric data, is stored on a smart card allowing for almost instantaneous personal identification. These are already employed in some bank automatic teller machines allowing for recognition of cards so that people cannot exceed their withdrawal limit.
Weiterlesen: GH: Biometrics without verification is a meaningless exercise
Mr Oppong Kyekyeku said this during the election of Chairmen for the Essikado-Ketan and Sekondi Sub-Metropolitan District Councils at Sekondi.
He said biometric registration would prevent multiple registrations and that the problem of minors registering would have to be checked at the registration centres.
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He gave the advice on Wednesday when he visited the Ho Central Prisons as part of a Volta Regional tour of ICT laboratories facilitated by the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC).
Mr Armah said providing ICT learning centres for the prisons was part of the government’s efforts to “give the prisoners something to do after serving their sentences”.
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GeGov is a partnership between the Ghana Community Network Services Ltd (GCNet) and the Government of Ghana to automate business registration and tax administration. The government is represented on the project supported and partly funded by the World Bank, by the Ministry of Communications, Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Registrar-General’s Department (RGD) and the National Information Technology Agency (NITA).