THE Electoral Commission (IEC) will test its new Voter Management Devices (VMDs) for the first time at a mass scale during the upcoming voter registration weekend.
The commission said that the VMDs represent a departure from the ‘Zip-Zip’ machines, which have been in use in the registration process since 1998.
The VMD’s appearance is of a typical black touch-screen tablet, but it is capable of registering your identity documents at the correct voting station. It can also check and update your information if you have already registered to vote.
On voting day, the device will check your voting status and then allow you to enter the voting station if you are registered in the correct district. Because the device tracks this data live, no person will be able to vote twice, the commission said.
“The VMDs will essentially operate in online mode in most parts of the country. In parts of
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