Kenya is now on course to join the company of countries like Estonia, said to have the world’s most fully-developed electronic identification system, and South Africa, which is now in the process of rolling out the Automated Biometric Identification System. The first is simply having a national identification system. A dependable identification system also has the potential to eliminate election fraud, by ensuring clean voter registers. Some of these attacks, unfortunately, have been the acts of individuals who took advantage of the shortcomings in our identification system. These have all coexisted with the national identification system.

Source: Daily Nation March 03, 2019 03:56 UTC