Is technology used for identifying voters at polling stations (electronic poll books)?

In the Philippines our election law DO NOT require thevoter to have his/her ID to be presented to be able to vote because the voteris the person wanting to vote, not the ID and denying his/her right to votebecause of a missing ID is a clear case of  disenfranchisement.  Aslong as the voter is in the voter's list for the polling center for thespecific election he/she wants to vote and is properly identified bypoll-workers as the same person in the list that he/she claims to be, he/shewill be allowed to vote.  Given that, the identification/authenticationchallenge shifts to the EMB to have the high-integrity/correct (secure,accurate, current and complete) voter identification and authentication systemto assure that only legitimate voters are allowed to vote on electionday.  On this basis, a 3-phase automated voter identification programmefor 50+ million (and growing at 2.5% annually) voters was started back inAugust 2003 employing 1) a front-end (field) biometrics (signature, four-fingerfingerprint, photo) and demographics (name, address, etc.) information capture,2) a back-end (central) voter list cleansing facility via an Automated FingerprintIdentification System (AFIS) to remove replicated entries via fingerprintmatching (having a 99.9+% match detection accuracy) and afront-end/on-line-real-time identity verification system on election day. Today, phases (1) and (2) are operational and phase (3) is still to beimplemented.  Meanwhile, for each election since 2003, a centrally-printedcurrent election-day voters list (as cleansed by the AFIS immediately priorelection day) having the photo of each voter and a space to capture the voter'sright-thumb fingerprint after he/she has voted is used as an interim solutioneach election. This system has been used in the national and mid-term electionsof 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013 plus some regional and smaller specialelections. 

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