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发帖数: 29846 | 1 August 15, 2013 - 4:43 PM
By Michael W. Chapman
(CNSNews.com) – Biometric fingerprint scanners are scheduled to be used in
the 2014 presidential election in Yemen.
The South Korean company Suprema, Inc. announced this week that it had won a
contract from the Yemeni government to provide about 4,800 of its RealScan-
D live scanners for the election, which is expected to take place in
February of next year. Money provided through the United Nations
Development Program is paying for the scanners.
“Yemen has come one step closer to adopting democracy and is now preparing
for the new presidential elections by strategically investing the funds from
the UNDP,” said Suprema in a press release. The company’s president,
James Lee, said: “The Arab Spring was the advent of free election and the
pro-democracy movement in the Middle East. I believe there will be many more
voter registration projects to follow.”
The RealScan-D devices work by capturing a person’s fingerprint or palm-
print (or both) and storing that image and biometric data. Similar scanners
can also capture signatures and photos and identification cards of the
persons registering to vote and store that information in their data file.
Biometric Scanners to be Used in Yemeni Presidential Election
“Live Scan fingerprinting refers to the technology used by law enforcement
agencies and private facilities to capture fingerprints and palm prints
electronically, without the need for the more traditional method of ink and
paper,” states Suprema. “Based on cutting-edge optical & biometric
technologies, Suprema developed range of live scanners for single, dual, ten
-fingerprints and palm print capturing, which are used for law enforcement,
border control, national ID as well as for commercial applications.”
The company also says that the scanners can be used voter registration,
driver’s license, banking, social welfare, and a National Population
Register.
Yemen, a Muslim-dominant country on the southwest border of Saudi Arabia
along the Red Sea and just across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia, is
currently headed by President Abd Rabuh Mansur. He was elected in early 2007
following a tumultuous 2006 election involving civil unrest, protests, and
violence that forced the former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to step down.
Yemen is rife with human rights abuses, and is peppered with Islamist
radicals, including al Qaeda terrorist cells.
In addition to the president who serves a 7-year term, the Yemeni government
has a bicameral Parliament, with 111 seats in its Shura Council and 301
seats in its House of Representatives. |
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