If the EMB uses technology to collect voter registration data, is biometric data captured and used during registration?

Bhutan

Bhutan

Answer
Yes, photos
Source

Election Commission of Bhutan: Instruction for Production and Issuance of Electoral Rolls and Voter Photo Identity Cards (VPIC) (2018), accessed 29 October 2018

6. Issuance of Voter Photo Identity Cards (VPICs)

6.1 The Dzongkhag Electoral Registration Officer shall be responsible for the issuance of VPIC.

6.2 The Dzongkhag Electoral Registration Officer shall ensure that:

6.2.1 New VPICs prepared for distribution shall be handed over to the concerned Gewog Administrative Officers for distribution as per Handing Taking Note in Annexure 1;

6.2.2 A VPIC is issued only once to a voter; […]

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