If electoral register is created by the EMB, what type of technology used for collecting registration data?

Lesotho

Lesotho

Answer
Digital voter registration kits/computers, off-line
Source

For the 2002 elections, the IEC completely discarded the voters’ list that had been used in 1998, as many parties had queried its accuracy and validity. The commission also used a new technology of fingerprint and image identification and recording.

Belinda Musanhu 2009 'Chapter 5: Lesotho' IN Denis Kadima and Susan Booysen (eds) Compendium of Elections in Southern Africa 1989-2009: 20 Years of Multiparty Democracy, EISA, Johannesburg, 168.

Recent publications do not mention the use of digital voter registration kits/computers, off line - but it is still the practice in Lesotho. Telephone call conversation with EMB official:

Mr. Lebohang Bulane

Executive Manager –  Information Technology

Independent Electoral Commission – Lesotho

Telephone:   +266 – 5885 – 1255 / 2232 – 7132 /2232 – 7296 /2231 – 4018

Email: bulane@iec.org.ls  /lebohang.bulane@gmail.com 

 

Comment

Recent publications do not mention the use of digital voter registration kits/computers, off line - but it is still the practice in Lesotho.

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