“The Commission’s register of voters is kept in a Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) system, which is hosted on several servers. The BVR system has been designed to have its own isolated network, set of servers as well as user account directory to ensure integrity, confidentiality and high availability,” he said. The Constitution allows the IEBC to give part of the register of voters - for specific electoral areas at a fee. “The commission services numerous requests by various entities requiring the register of voters for specific electoral areas. The fraudsters do SIM swaps by cloning victim’s accounts before stealing the cash from the account.

Source: The Star July 19, 2021 07:13 UTC