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Ghana Election Process Biometrics: the key to securing ‘One Man, One Vote’ ? Interactive Workshop 7 th International Electoral Affairs Symposium, Mauritius, Dec 3-4, 2013

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Page 1: 2013-12-03 Workshop 7th Electoral Forum (Kuala Lumpur)

Ghana Election Process

Biometrics: the key to securing ‘One Man, One Vote’ ?

Interactive Workshop

7th International Electoral Affairs Symposium, Mauritius, Dec 3-4, 2013

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Ghana Election Process

‘One Man, One Vote’

Ghana Elections – Dec 2012

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Adoption of Biometric Technology in Elections

Ghana: First country to adopt biometric on both phases of the Elections

Biometric Voters Registration

AND

Biometric Verification on Election Day

2012 Ghana Elections President Mahama using Biometric Verification before casting his vote

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Key figures

6 weeks of enrollment (+ 2 weeks for change of location)

> 14 million voters enrolled

Data Capture:

Biographic data

Facial image

Up to 10 fingerprints

99,6% of the fingerprint data of sufficient quality for deduplication

~60,000 candidate duplicates

Fraudulent / non-fraudulent

Fully transparent and conclusive outcome – exhibition of voter register

Biometric Voter Registration Phase 2012 National Elections Ghana

Challenges

230,000 registrations/day (avg.)

> 7,000 registration stations with > 32,000 operators

Tropical conditions

Daily news coverage

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Results

~10 million voters biometrically verified at 26,000 polling stations

Problems encountered at 413 polling stations (late delivery of materials, batteries BVD, etc.)

resumed voting on second day

Close monitoring of independent observer teams (CODEO, Commonwealth, IEBC, AU etc.)

Simple process easily applied by properly trained operators

Fully transparent and conclusive election outcome

Challenges

Logistics: delivery of election materials

Provisioning of consumables (batteries)

Limited time for pilots

Limited time for operator recruitment and training

Biometric Verification on Election Day 2012 National Elections Ghana

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Election Process

Can Biometric secure the principle of ‘One Man, One Vote’?

Arnd Langguth – Director Sales, GenKey Aweke Lemma – Director Sales, GenKey Michiel Loeff – Executive Director Sales, GenKey

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The four pillars of fair elections

• Prevention Creating a “clean” voter registry

• Verification Reliable verification of voters

• Detection Recognize fraudulent ballots

• Correction Identify and remove fraudulent ballots

One man, one vote, that counts!

‘One Man, One Vote’

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Challenge

Multiple registrations of the same individual

Solution

Voters register with their biometrics (fingerprints)

Central ABIS executes deduplication

Pillar 1: Prevention ‘One Man, One Vote’

The result is a clean registry per polling station, which will be used during Election Day to validate the eligibility of voters

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Challenge

Imposter attempts to vote

(for example faked/stolen credentials)

Solution

Every voter gets biometrically verified at beginning of voting process

Ensures that only registered users can cast their vote

Prevents double voting by same voter or voting by unregistered individuals

Pillar 2: Verification ‘One Man, One Vote’

The result is that every verified voter that casts a vote is actually the same person that registered

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Pillar 3: Detection

Challenge

Recognize that number of “expected” ballots differs from number of physical ballots (additional, faked ballots in the box)

Solution

Provide proof of (biometrically) verified voters

Biometric device traces every interaction (successes/failures/rejections)

At End-Of-Day reported successful verifications must match

‘One Man, One Vote’

The result is a reliable detection of fraudulent ballots

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Solution

Ballot contains a unique barcode serial number

Serial numbers scanned with device directly after

biometric voter verification, and stored as a pool

of valid ballot IDs

Post election, the scanning of the barcode on the

casted ballot will show “valid” or “not-valid”

Pillar 4: Correction ‘One Man, One Vote’

The result is that every ballot counted is from a registered voter

Challenge

If more ballots in box than # of verified voters: identify the valid ballots in box WITHOUT compromising privacy of vote

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Can Biometric secure the principle of ‘One Man, One Vote’?

Effective use of biometrics in elections will: Reduce election fraud substantially

Support the transparency of the voting process

Set an example of modern democracy by securing the principle: ‘One Man, One Vote’

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Contact details

Michiel Loeff Arnd Langguth Aweke Lemma

Tel: +31 627 066 185 +49 1728 933 916 +31683250156 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]