Guyana elections chair criticized for contradictory remarks on digital fingerprinting

A former member of the Guyana Election Commission (GECOM) Vincent Alexander has described as “ominous” recent comments from the chairperson of the election agency, Claudette Singh, suggesting she is changing her position on a planned digital fingerprinting project for biometric voter registration and verification.

Guyana currently uses a manual fingerprinting system for voter registration and identification.

In a letter to the editor of Starbroek News, Alexander said pronouncements by the GECOM Chair during a recent press conference following the …

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