Guinea selects Sagem Sécurité to ensure integrity of election

We are still waiting for the
election commission in Zimbabwe to release the official results of the presidential
election there. Since we are talking about Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, the verb should be “cook” rather than “release”: The
elections were held two weeks ago, and observers agree that the candidate of
the opposition party, the Democratic Movement for Change, has won. Other
countries are more fastidious in conducting their elections. Sagem Sécurité
has been selected by Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office to supply voter registration kits
for the Republic of Guinea within
the scope of the United Nations Development Program and the project for the
registration and revision of voter lists (PERLE). Sagem Sécurité, a specialist
in automatic fingerprint identification systems and large-scale biometric systems,
has been playing an important role in the United Nations Development Program. Sagem
will supply 1,000 portable enrollment stations and an Automatic Fingerprint
Identification System (AFIS) to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the
National Independent Electoral Commission. These systems will be used to
register voters’ biometric data in order to establish secure voter lists. The
company says that it has more than 100 systems deployed in more than 60
countries. These systems have already handled the registration of more than 200
million people around the world.