Voting was extended into Saturday in areas where election materials arrived late or glitches with a new biometric identification system caused delays.
Biometric identification is also helping counties to automatically weed through the fake, duplicate, and fraudulent entries with a speed and precision not before possible.
Biometric identification, which works by using the unique characteristics of your body to prove who you are, may be the key to a much more effective system.
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With the sophistication of our ePassports, RFID, and biometric identification it would save time and conserve the limited resources of border protection officers so they can concentrate on higher-risk travelers.
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This election marked the first time the nation of 25 million has used the new biometric voter identification system.
No doubt there will be some benefits: fraud, in particular the persistent and increasingly annoying problem of identity theft, might be substantially reduced if biometric-identification systems, introduced in the form of passports, visas and identity cards, become widespread.
The failure of the high-tech biometric voter-identification kits on voting day had, by and large, one distinctly low-tech cause: A lack of electricity at polling stations.
Dubbed the Next Generation Identification (NGI) program, the high-tech endeavor uses biometric data such as DNA analysis, iris scans and voice identification to track down folks with a criminal history.
Only 222 million people have enrolled into a biometric identity scheme which helps them with the identification number.
India is collecting biometric data from over one billion residents to issue them each a unique identification number.
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