According to the companies, they have completed the delivery of 16,100 licenses of biometric enrollment software to the Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and this first phase of the project features the enrollment of 58 million eligible voters; the world’s largest single deployment of a mobile digital biometric enrollment solution.
The solution for INEC includes the use of digital fingerprints and photographs to verify each eligible voter’s identity, ensure accuracy and prevent fraud at the upcoming general election.
As part of the contract, Labcal is providing the Nigerian biometric voter registration software application and biometric-based handheld computers, while BIO-key is supplying ISO standards-based fingerprint software and the fingerprint extraction and matching software.
Mike DePasquale, CEO and president of BIO-key, said: According to the Nigerian government, our software provides a cost effective, easy to use, accurate solution to combat fraud in the upcoming election.
