The personal identity card will not necessarily be the only security element on election day.
To avoid one of the most well-known electoral phenomena in Albania, such as ‘family voting’ or through the card of another person, technology will be used in elections for the first time.’
“What the polling station commission has done before, ie the manual identification by means of an identity card or passport and on the other hand the list of voters, will now be done by the electronic identification device of the polling station commission”, the authorities say.
“Once confirmed, the voter will electronically sign with his fingerprints and then be given the ballot paper,” they add.
Biometric devices are designed to provide more security, as history has shown that the losing side has in many cases disputed the result.
Lealba Pelinku, CEC deputy commissioner mandated for the implementation of technology in elections, sets out the guarantees of the system.
“When the voter does not belong to that particular polling station, this is signaled, documented and the voter is told which is the polling station he is registered to and the second case, when he appears in the same polling station for the second or third time, is signaled immediately “, Says Pelinku.
The devices are not connected to the network, thus preventing external interference. “But then what the system will do is cross-check the data, so it is easily verifiable who and where the violation of the electoral code was committed, what constitutes a criminal offense.”
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