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Sagem Sécurité to provide voter registration system to Guinea

Friday, April 25, 2008

The Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office has chosen Sagem Sécurité to supply voter registration kits to the Republic of Guinea. Sagem Sécurité will supply 1,000 portable enrollment stations and an Automatic Fingerprint Identification System to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the National Independent Electoral Commission. These systems will be used to register voters’ biometric data in order to establish secure voter lists. [end] 

Resolute Health, based in New Braunfels, Texas, has launched a health security smart card to facilitate patient registration.

Resolute contracted with LifeMed ID to implement the SecureReg Patient Identity Management System. With the Resolute Health BeneFIT smart card, a patient can check into either the Resolute Health Center for Wellbeing or the Resolute Health Family Urgent Care Center and be accurately identified.

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The Nepalese Election Commission (EC) has completed nearly all its biometric voter registration as all but one district and just shy of 10 million citizens have been enrolled, according to a My Republica article.

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The Nigerian Identity Management Commission (NIMC) will begin enrolling Nigerian citizens and legal residents into the Nigerian Identity Management System (NIMS) within the next few weeks, reports Business Day.

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Ghana is getting ready for its first-ever biometric voter registration ahead of December’s general elections. The $45-million project has been piloted in some areas, but social and technological difficulties remain, according to a report in Voice of America.

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The Ghana Electoral Commission (EC) Chairman, Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, announced that biometric registration of Ghanaian citizens registered to vote will begin on March 24 and is expected to finish on May 5, according to a Ghana Business News article.

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Temple University in Philadelphia is upgrading its campus ID card to not only comply with Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law but to give the card a technology facelift, including adding contactless functionality.

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