{"id":35219,"date":"2019-05-18T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T05:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=35219"},"modified":"2019-05-18T13:47:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T05:47:58","slug":"comelec-selects-gemaltos-biometrics-solution-for-voter-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/05\/18\/comelec-selects-gemaltos-biometrics-solution-for-voter-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec selects Gemalto\u2019s Biometrics Solution for voter authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Electoral commissions have the delicate task of maintaining reliable and correct electoral registers as part of the execution of the election. To help ensure secure and accurate voter verification before issuing ballot slips, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has appointed Gemalto, a Thales company, and Nextix as technology partners to develop, deploy and support the Biometric Voter Verification System for the 2019 Philippines National and Local Election. The aim is to automate the verification of voters through the use of their biometrics information.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addressing\nthis need, Gemalto will provide over 30,000 biometric tablets to enable rapid\nidentification and authentication of voters in the designated precincts across\nthe Philippines. With the tablets that feature Gemalto’s Voter Verification\nSystem, authorities will be able to reduce fraud by verifying voters’ identity\nvia their fingerprints. This will also help cut waiting times for the voters\nand authorities tremendously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMELEC will\nuse the Gemalto solution to verify the identity of voters. This was put to a\ntest at the first time during the mock elections held on 19th Jan 2019, in\npreparation for the actual polls in May 2019. Instead of manually checking the\nCOMELEC’s voters list, members of the Board of Election Inspectors used the\nVoter Registration Verification Tablet, a system that removes the need for\nvoters to present their identification card. Thanks to the tablet the electoral\nboard will identify the voter’s with his fingerprint to determine if the voter\nis registered and whether the individual belongs to the certain precinct. If\nthe individual is a registered voter, the tablet will validate the registration\nand a he will receive the necessary ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fingerprints\nserve as a key to avoid duplication. The aim is to ensure that citizens are not\nable to use several identities to vote multiple times. The Voter Verification\nSystem implements a quality control to verify that the data has been captured\nand verified correctly. Authorities are also able to track voting activity and\nparticipation rate via logs and audit reports. These steps will ensure the best\npossible level of security for elections to take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Secure, reliable and comprehensive enrollment\nand ID verification are the foundations of citizen registration, voting\nprocesses and border controls,” said Dir. James Jimenez. “With\nGemalto’s Voter Verification System, we are able to streamline not only the\nverification but moving ahead, our registration processes bring greater\nconvenience to citizens, guaranteeing the quality and confidentiality of data\ncaptured. We are excited to deploy this solution \u2013 a first for the Philippines\ngovernment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In today’s environment, authorities face numerous challenges. Biometrics serve as the primary data that establishes an individual’s identity is accurately collected and verified. We are proud that the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) chose Gemalto biometric solution to verify the identity of voters. It is an honor to help COMELEC transform the agility and efficiency of the voters’ verification and registration processes,” said Tan Teck Lee, Asia President, Identity & Biometric Solutions, Thales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has appointed Gemalto, a Thales company, and Nextix as technology partners to develop, deploy and support the Biometric Voter Verification System for the 2019 Philippines National and Local Election. The aim is to automate the verification of voters through the use of their biometrics information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6731,96],"class_list":["post-35219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-gemalto","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}