Nigerian Voter Registration Off to Bumpy Start (AllAfrica.com)
The above link leads to a page at AllAfrica.com that aggregates eighteen articles chronicling the problems Nigeria is having in implementing a fingerprint based voter ID system.
Headlines include:
Election Commission Chief in Eye of Storm (Jan. 23)
Voter Registration Hitches Are National Embarrassment (Jan. 24)
Fake DDC Machines Slow Voter Registration Exercise in Edo (Jan. 21)
Voter Registration - False Start? (Jan. 20)
To this list may be added an article from yesterday:
Voter Registration - DDC Machines Too Fake And Cheap
Biometric ID management systems can help liberate the electoral process from corruption. If, however, the implementation process itself is plagued with corruption many of the benefits of the implementation will be sacrificed and the costs will inevitably go up.
See also:
Big-Time fraud in NYC time-and-attendance initiative
