Is technology used for identifying voters at polling stations (electronic poll books)?

Armenia

Armenia

Answer
Yes, offline/only access to polling station registration data
Source

Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia (as of 30th June 2016)

Article 66
Verifying the Identity of an Elector, registering electors

66.1 Identification document for an elector shall be considered to be an identification card, a biometric passport, a non-biometric passport, a temporary document, replacing the passport or the identification card, issued by the authorised body, an identification document of the elector who is in a penitentiary institution, whereas for military servants — the military service certificate or the military service record book, where they register (vote) in the list of electors drawn up by the military unit. During elections of local self-government bodies, the identification document for the elector not holding citizenship shall be considered to be one of the documents established by the decision of the Central Electoral Commission as prescribed by Article 51 of this Code.

66.2 An elector shall participate in voting in person; proxy voting shall be prohibited. Each elector shall approach the specialist and submit an identification document. Where an elector has submitted a passport, or an identification card, the specialist shall verify the identity of the elector through the image available in the submitted document and shall insert the submitted document in the technical equipment.

Article 67
Voting

67.1 Immediately after having received the voting pass, the elector shall approach the commission member responsible for handing out ballot papers and ballot envelopes and present the voting pass.

67.2 During elections of the National Assembly, a commission member responsible for handing out ballot papers and ballot envelopes shall hand out to the elector one ballot paper and one ballot envelope for each political party running in elections. The elector may not refuse to accept all the ballot papers.


International Election Observation Mission (Parliamentary Elections, 2 April 2017)

“Voters were identified on election day through the use of Voter Authentication Devices (VADs), which contained an electronic copy of the voter lists. Voters’ fingerprints were also scanned and the CEC informed the IEOM that it will conduct cross-checks to identify potential cases of multiple voting in case of complaints.”

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