The prevailing biometric registration process is not genuine but pseudo because the current voter registration process is in reality an OMR registration in disguise. The only difference between the current purported biometric registration and the former OMR registration is the quality of the voter card. In challenging environments such as Liberia, a genuine biometric voter registration process would entail the collection of data accompanied by the provision of voter registration cards at most after seven (7) days. The actions include:LAXTON, the Vendor selected by the National Elections Commission (NEC) to implement the Biometric Voter Registration Project has very limited experience with the conduct of biometric voter registration in a challenging environment like Liberia. This decision has the potential to disenfranchise many Liberians in the face of the limited awareness that attended the prelude to the so-called biometric voter registration process.
