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Executive Summary

Due to worldwide advancements in computer and telecommunication technologies and the underlying infrastructures, biometric voting systems are expanding throughout the entire world including developed and developing countries in APAC, Middle East, Latin America, and Africa regions. Preventing voter fraud, election rigging, and multiple voter registration, accurate and reliable biometric voter registration systems are now playing an active role in modern electoral infrastructures. Beside a reliable biometric voting system, there is a dire need for international standards to govern the technology, software reliability and accuracy, process and algorithms deployed within the technology, and the verification of all hardware, software and protocols involved. The M2SYS TrueVoter™ system is a scalable and customizable software package that allows you to perform a wide variety of tasks for processing, editing, searching, retrieving, and storing biometric voting templates and voter records. TrueVoter™ can easily collect the biometric data in an industry recognized standard format including ISO/NIST and FBI compliance to ensure a reliable and secured electoral system.

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Problem Statement

Ghost Voting/multiple voting in manual voting system is a common issue

Controversy between political parties for free and fair election

Lack of trust in the fairness of the electoral process

Lack of registering eligible voters accurately

Lack of voter verification during the electoral process

“Zombie Voting” - incorrect voter List including dead people

System down stress can cause voter tempers to flare

Data collection from remote areas

Political violence after election due to perceived inequalities/rigging

Lack of cross-project collaboration among different government departments

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Obstacles

Lack of skilled man power to administer biometric system

Lack of availability of electric power in remote areas

Lack of fund raising in developing countries

Government unwillingness to implement the system

International and local law regulations for deploying biometrics

Infrastructure for development

High expenses for biometric system deployment

Lack of fund raising in developing countries

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Voters Now Increasingly Lack Confidence in the Fairness of the Electoral Process

In 1996, a study by the University of Michigan's National Election Studies found that about 10% of voters thought that the way the presidential election was conducted was somewhat or very unfair. Unsurprisingly, the number spiked at 37% in 2000, and it fell to 13.6% in 2004.

Impact

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Source: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20081020_hasen.html

Impacts: Traditional vs Biometric

Traditional (Manual) Voting Systems

Zimbabwe Election 2013 - An independent audit found that more than a million people registered as voters were dead, while more than half of the constituencies have more voters registered than inhabitants.

Zimbabwe 2013 Election Project - Too many anomalies, including 116, 000 people over the age of 100, 78 constituencies with more registered voters than adult residents and two million unregistered voters under the age of 30.

Ghana Election 2012 - In the last two decades; the use of indelible ink and use of voters’ Identity cards without photos caused unqualified persons to register as voter and given their votes.

Biometric Voting Systems

Kenyan 2013 Election Project -Biometric Electronic system that was put in place by the IEBC failed to deliver as expected. It increased the cost of commission and estimated total cost was KSh9.6 billion (US $112 million) where “Face Technology” won the tender for a Sh1.4 billion budget.

Ghana Election 2012 - $82m dollar project seeks to eliminate double registration. The biometric machines had broken down holding up voting for over an hour.

Ghana Election 2012 - 26,000 polling stations across the country, 413 stations did not finish the voting process on the intended voting day and had to continue the next day.

Many countries suffer from a stoppage to the registration process because machines hang or even fail to function.

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Ghana Election 2012 - Ghana BVR system successfully handled 13m voters within 48 hours (first in Sub-Saharan Africa using biometric voting system) while reducing errors and guaranteeing voters the right to exercise their franchise

Nigerian voting system was estimated to cost $230 million - the Nigerian elections clearly succeeded in combating voter fraud

Ghana airports adopt biometric border management system after the successful biometric voting system implementation

Zimbabwe started planning to use an e-passport after the biometric electoral system initiative

Nigerian launched a national smart ID card after the successful biometric voter registration process to have all Nigerian citizens participate in the financial services sector under the control of MasterCard that is designed to move Nigeria into a cashless society

Positive Impacts: Biometric Voting System

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Sources: http://www.futuretravelexperience.com/2013/04/ghana-airports-adopt-biometric-border-management-system-in-eghana-project/ http://secureidnews.com/news-item/countries-adopt-biometrics-for-voter-id-fraud-prevention/ http://www.biometricupdate.com/201210/zimbabwe-to-introduce-epassports http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cashless-society-arrives-in-africa-the-multipurpose-biometric-national-identity-smart-card/5335292

Goals & Objectives

Eliminate ghost voting / multiple voting

Registering voters from remote areas

Biographical data capture of voters

Accurate and secured voter database

Quick and accurate verification

Provides “unbreakable” security

Eliminates problems of lost tokens / cards

Provides greater user convenience

Basis for integrated electronic voting

User friendly system for illiterate people in developing countries

Multi-modal recognition system for strong identification

Cross-project collaboration among different government departments

Affordable and cost efficient system for developing countries

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Recommendation

True Voter™ can register voters from remote locations

True Voter™ processes faster de-duplication comparisons and quickly identifies fraudulent applications

TrueVoter™ provides a simple and user-friendly interface for registering and identifying voters and less skill requirement to operate

True Voter™ is capable of capturing both demographic and biometrics data for building a reliable database

True Voter™ allows you to perform variety of tasks from registration to card issuance

True Voter™ flexible architecture maximizes system performance and efficiency while reducing system stress and downtime

True Voter™ ensures Information safety including strong encryption and disaster recovery option

True Voter™ has a fault tolerant architecture that can perform well in a wide range of projects

True Voter™ facilitates interoperability between government agencies for database consolidation and maintenance

True Voter™ is a multi-modal biometric voting identification system including fingerprint, finger vein, palm vein, iris, and facial recognition

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M2SYS AFIS/ABIS - TrueVoter™

True Voter ™ Registration Process

M2SYS helps the electoral commission across the globe, offering its brand recognized TrueVoter™ system, an end to end biometric voter registration system including data capture kits, data aggregation and consolidation systems, and a multi-modal biometric duplicate checking application.

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Benefit Analysis

TrueVoter™ is a multi-modal biometric voting identification including fingerprint, finger vein,

palm vein, iris, and facial recognition

TrueVoter™ is capable of capturing demographic and biometric data from remote areas

TrueVoter™ provides a wide variety of tasks for processing, editing, searching, retrieving and

storing biometric voting templates and voter records

TrueVoter™ collects biometric data in ISO/NIST/ANSI and FBI standard format which can be

usable in border control, immigration, law enforcement, and public safety

TrueVoter™ can perform cross-project collaboration among different government

departments

TrueVoter™ protects citizen safety and privacy in a secured architecture

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TrueVoter™ Usage Scope

Electoral System

• Voter Registration

• Accurate Voting

Health Care & Welfare

• National ID Card

• Healthcare

• Law Enforcement

Border Control

• E-Passport

• Immigration

M2SYS TrueVoter™ collects biometric data in ISO/NIST/ANSI and FBI standard format so the database can be usable in border control, immigration, law enforcement, and public safety

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Conclusion

The use of biometrics for de-duplication of the voter register is a common methodology used

in many countries. Due to worldwide technological advancements, biometric voting systems

like M2SYS TrueVoter™ are gaining popularity. To avoid voting fraud, multiple voting, vote-

rigging, multiple voter registration of a single person, political controversy for free and fair

elections after an electoral period; biometric voting systems like TrueVoter™ are highly

needed in electoral systems to register millions of voters quickly and effectively in a secured

architecture.

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