Reuters: The first female founder of an Afghan political party has urged the country to rethink the use of facial recognition technology in elections amid concerns it stopped large numbers of women from voting this year. Authorities photographed all voters in September’s presidential election and used facial recognition software, a measure designed to combat fraud that
Tolo News: The Independent Election Commission on Sunday said that it will start the recounting of votes in 34 provinces on Monday. The commission on Saturday released new vote numbers, saying that the Dermalog company had identified 1,843,107 valid votes out of the 1,929,333 votes already transferred to the commission’s central database. But election observers—primarily from
Tolo News: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Saturday released new statistics on the votes registered at the commission’s central database. The commission said that the Dermalog company has identified 1,843,107 valid votes out of the 1,929,333 votes already transferred to the commission’s central database. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: Dermalog Company has submitted a complete report on verification of biometric votes to Independent Election Commission, IEC spokesman confirmed. IEC spokespersons Zabi Sadat said on Friday that the commission will share details of the report with media after technical assessments are done. Independent Election Commission (IEC) said that 47,000 cases of underage, duplicate photos and
Ariana: A number of Afghan senators on Tuesday called on the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to announce the election result as soon as possible. Senators also called on frontrunner candidates to avoid taking this national process toward a political deadlock. Abdul Latif Nahzatyar, a member of senate said postponement of election results will pave the way
Tolo News: The German company providing biometric devices, and now aiding with the tally of voting results, has attracted scrutiny – Naeem Ayoubzada, head of the Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA), said: “Unfortunately, Dermalog is not an electoral company to know the management of the election process, secondly, if this company takes responsibility, there is
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 27, 2019 Afghanistan’s electoral authorities said preliminary results from last month’s presidential election will be delayed for weeks. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said the preliminary results of the September 28 election will be announced on November 14. The preliminary results were originally meant to be released on October 19.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 25, 2019 A top U.S. official has called for patience as Afghanistan attempts to finalize counting of its September 28 election results following last weekend’s delay. Alice Wells, the assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, said on October 24 after a visit to Kabul that all major
Tolo News: Lawmakers in Afghanistan’s parliament on Wednesday lashed out at the special units of the Afghan police forces for their alleged involvement in breaching the digital center of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), saying the move is not acceptable. The parliament speaker Mir Rahman Rahmani ordered the head of the parliament’s Internal Security Commission to
1TV: Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission said on Tuesday that the main door of its data center was opened to help two special forces of police get warm. This comes as Abdullah Abdullah’s team has claimed that the data at the digital center were altered in an organized night raid that happened in collusion with President Ashraf