Speaking to Southern Eye, MDC-T acting provincial spokesperson, Felix Magalela Sibanda said that biometric data capturing is not new to Zimbabwe as it was used during the Rhodesian era.
Said Sibanda:
I wish to correct the notion that the BVR (biometric voter registration) system is new and may distort voting results. That’s not correct at all. This biometric system of data capturing is not new as it was used in then Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe. Since colonisation and post-independence, IDs always had fingerprint marks on them. Early 1990s IDs had both face images and fingerprints of the bearer. The term bio is not new and for all along we have been using our fingerprints and images unknowing that it is biometric. Let us explain to our kith and kin first and spread outwards later in order to enhance technology in the correct perspective.
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