Nigeria Voter Registration

Country:  Nigeria
City:  Lagos

Background

• Prevention of fraud in registration of the country’s voters before the presidential elections

 

Scope

• Design and implementation of a voter system to process all voters before they elect the Nigerian president
• Prevention of fraudulent multiple registrations and ensuring that each person votes only once

 

Implementation

• 456 BioLink Authenteon servers deployed in 37 voter registration centers
• Over 2.4 million single-fingerprint matches per second
• Overall number of matches - over 4.7 trillion matches over the 40-day enrollment period
• All voter applicants are enrolled at the level of Nigeria's 774 Local Governmental Authorities (LGAs) and duplicate enrollment attempts are eliminated; each voter will receive a voter's card.

 

Outcome

• Preventing individual voters from enrolling more than once under multiple identities
• Ensuring the integrity of the 'one person, one vote' concept
• Implementation of democracy principles