Biometrics in voter management solutions

Neurotechnology offers versatile voter management solutions for registering, consolidating, validating, and managing voter identities, thereby safeguarding the integrity of electoral processes.

Streamlines voter registration, eliminates fraudulent records, and provides thorough data analysis, supporting transparency and informed decision-making.
Merges voter identity data from various sources into one unified registry and validates the authenticity of biometric and biographic data.
Manages the complete lifecycle of voter identity, from registration to updates, ensuring the database remains current and accurate.
Utilizes advanced technology to eliminate duplicate or fraudulent records, maintaining the integrity and authenticity of the voter registry.
Ensures related documents preparation with personalized voter card issuance and generation of voter lists by poling sites for printing, exhibition, and voting.
Provides voter verification on election day, therefore, ensuring that only eligible voters are able to cast their vote.

The company's biometric products and custom solutions have played a significant role in national election management projects in multiple countries worldwide. Neurotechnology's team focuses on understanding and addressing the unique needs and challenges of each project to ensure successful voter management implementation.

Case studies

The case studies and solution partner references are prepared using the information from our customers about their software based on our biometric technology. Each case study wording is approved by the corresponding customers:

Liberia General Elections used a solution based on MegaMatcher IDMS and MegaMatcher ABIS.
The National Elections Commission (NEC) of the Republic of Liberia needed to establish a trusted voter registry for the country's 2023 general elections. Neurotechnology used its MegaMatcher product line to develop the solution. MegaMatcher IDMS streamlined the enrollment process. MegaMatcher ABIS helped to eliminate duplicate and fraudulent records. The whole registration of 2.47 million voters took six weeks. The solution detected 27,192 duplicate records and 529 underage suspects.
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Ghana General Elections used MegaMatcher ABIS solution.
The Electoral Commission of Ghana needed a biometric system for voter management during the Ghana's 2020 general elections. Neurotechnology successfully delivered the MegaMatcher ABIS solution, as well as provided all related services and products for the Ghana's Biometric Voter Management System. The deployed multi-biometric software allowed to cover all needs of the General Elections – from initial voter registration deduplication, adjudication, final voter list generation and verification on election day. The system deduplicated 17 million voter records and identified almost 16 thousand cases of duplicate voter registrations.
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DR Congo Voter Deduplication 2018 Project uses MegaMatcher ABIS solution.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo needed to perform massive voter registration in order to prepare for DRC 2018 elections. Neurotechnology deployed the MegaMatcher ABIS solution with 11 MegaMatcher Accelerator Extreme units to provide enough performance for all-with-all comparison. The solution deduplicated 46.5 million voter records in less than 2 months. 5.3 million duplicate records and 900 thousand underage records were found.
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Bangladesh Voter Registration Project is based on MegaMatcher multi-biometric technology.
The Bangladesh Voter Registration Project registered more than 80 million citizens using biometric face and fingerprint technology. After evaluating a number of biometric technologies for their duplicate search system, the Bangladesh Army determined that MegaMatcher from Neurotechnology was able to identify more duplicate registrations with a higher degree of accuracy than any other system tested.
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Venezuela Voter Registration System used MegaMatcher Accelerator solution and MegaMatcher technology.
The National Electoral Council of Venezuela wanted to update their existing voter registration system with a more open and cost-effective technology. The old system was built in 2004 and appeared to be expensive to maintain and expand. Ex-Clé has developed and implemented the new integrated biometric platform for the Venezuelan voter registration system using the MegaMatcher SDK and MegaMatcher Accelerator solution. The system was used during the 2012 Venezuelan presidential election and proved its speed and accuracy with biometric data from nearly 18 million registered people.
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Sierra Leone Biometric Voter Registration System is based on MegaMatcher Accelerator solution.
The National Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone implemented a new multi-biometric voter registration system and sought a solution that would both ensure accurate registration of all eligible voters through de-duplication of the voter registration database and provide printed electoral lists and personalized voter cards. Zetes provided the National Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone with multi-biometric AFIS and facial image voter registration de-duplication services using MegaMatcher Accelerator. 2.7 million voter records were processed in less than 6 weeks.
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Kenya Voter Registration System is based on MegaMatcher multi-biometric technology.
The Interim Independent Electoral Commission of Kenya (IIEC) required a voter registration system for the country's voters. The system has been intended for voter identification and prevention of duplicate registrations. CODE Inc. has worked with the IIEC to deliver a multi-biometric voter registration solution. The CODE Inc. Digital Solution for Electronic Voter Registration is based on MegaMatcher multi-biometric fingerprint and facial identification technology.
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