{"id":8157,"date":"2016-07-09T02:10:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T22:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=8157"},"modified":"2016-07-09T02:10:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T22:10:04","slug":"gemalto-coesys-device-revamps-drc-voter-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2016\/07\/09\/gemalto-coesys-device-revamps-drc-voter-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemalto Coesys device revamps DRC voter list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gemalto has won an international tender to supply CENI, the National Independent Electoral Commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a>, with 22,000 mobile biometric voter enrollment kits to support a comprehensive update of the country\u2019s national voter register. Gemalto\u2019s fully portable Coesys Mobile Enrollment stations<\/a> will enable 18,000 enrollment centers to rapidly acquire digital photographs, fingerprint and signature records of citizens, and instantly issue personalised voter cards for upcoming general elections.<\/p>\n

Gemalto will also train the trainers for CENI and provide comprehensive maintenance and support for this voter registration project<\/a>, which represents one of the largest ever.<\/p>\n

Gemalto\u2019s Coesys Mobile Enrollment stations feature a ruggedised, suitcase style design<\/a> and can be deployed virtually anywhere across the country. CENI will use the Coesys Mobile Enrollment stations to ensure efficient and quality acquisition of voter\u2019s personal details and biometric data<\/a> that will be used to add new eligible voters, as well as clean and update existing records in the national voter register ahead of the elections.<\/p>\n

In particular, the use of irrefutable biometric data will help identify and eliminate duplicates. CENI <\/a>is responsible for managing and operating the entire enrollment process, and consolidating the voter registry<\/a>.<\/p>\n