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

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

Answer
Yes, photos
Source

Trinidad and Tobago, Elections and Boundaries Commission, Representation of the People Act (Act 41 of 1967, last amended in 2000), accessed 9 August 2020

Registration Rules (Subsidiary Legislation)

9. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in these Rules, Assistant Registration Officers, when required in pursuance of section 4(3)(a) of the Act, shall—

(a) visit every house in the polling division assigned to them and receive applications for registration; and

(b) if satisfied that an applicant for registration is qualified to be registered, effect the registration of the applicant. […]

(3) For the purpose of completing registrations for which applications are received under sub-rule (1), an official photographer shall accompany Assistant Registration Officers, and shall, subject to rules 23(5) and 24, and after the provisions of rule 23(1) have been complied with, take the photograph of every such applicant.

50. (1) The Commission shall, once in every year, cause to be prepared the list of electors of each electoral district which the Commission is required to publish in every year pursuant to section 29 of the Act.

(2) For the purpose of complying with subrule (1), the Registration Officer of every registration area shall cause to be prepared a list of all persons duly registered as electors in each Parliamentary, Municipal Council and Tobago House of Assembly electoral district in his registration area.

Trinidad and Tobago, Elections and Boundaries Commission, Registration Process, accessed 10 August 2020

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