Africa

Africa is leading the way in election technology

An electoral commission worker takes a fingerprint of a voter in a polling station during elections in Kano March 28, 2015. Nigerians voted on Saturday in what looks set to be the first genuine electoral contest since the end of military rule in 1999, one in which an opposition aspirant has a fighting chance of unseating the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic   - GF10000041405

Voter identification by electronic means is given priority in Nigeria. Image: REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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