Is the biometric data used in voter identification at polling stations?

Jamaica

Jamaica

Answer
Yes
Source

Electoral Commission of Jamaica, The Electronic Voter Identification and Ballot Issuing System, accessed 28 September 2020

“The Electoral Office of Jamaica has implemented the Electronic Voter Identification and Ballot Issuing System (EVIBIS). With EVIBIS, registered electors will be identified and verified at the polling station by using their fingerprints after which the system will issue authenticated ballots for voting. The elector will then proceed as before to mark the “X” with a pencil on the paper ballot issued.

The main objectives of EVIBIS are to prevent:

(1) Impersonation of an elector

(2) Multiple voting by persons

(3) The use of unauthenticated ballots”

Close tooltip