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

Mauritius

Mauritius

Answer
No
Source

Rouikaya Kasenally 2009 'Chapter 8: Mauritius' IN Denis Kadima and Susan Booysen (eds) Compendium of Elections in Southern Africa 1989-2009: 20 Years of Multiparty Democracy, EISA, Johannesburg, 287-288.

In general a voter does not have to produce any document in order to vote, unless his/her identity is challenged by a candidate, agent, or ex-officio - in which case s/he has to produce his/her national identity card. No cases of fraudulent voting by foreigners have ever been reported.

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