Kenya Introduces Biometrics for Voter Registration

This week, nearly 1,000 Kenyan election commission officials received training in the use of new biometric voter registration kits. Biometric voter registration uses fingerprints and facial features to uniquely identify each voter. With only four months until elections, officials must work quickly. They face additional pressure in Coast Province, where a secessionist group has threatened to disrupt the voter registration effort.
  
In a beachside hotel north of Mombasa, 80 officers … [Read More]

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