Integrated Biometrics has announced it will be providing 13,000 of its Watson Minis to help register and enroll eligible voters in Brazil and Brazilian consulate offices worldwide.The enrollment process will continue throughout 2015 with a goal of being completed by 2017.The fingerprint scanners are part of a biometric kit provided by Akiyama Soluções Tecnológicas (Akiyama), the exclusive distributor of Integrated Biometrics products in Brazil, which was recently selected by the country's Tribunal Superior Eleitoral to service this voter registration project. Integrated Biometrics noted in a statement that it develops the “world's smallest and lightest FBI-compliant fingerprint scanners”.The kit includes the necessary equipment and software to register and enroll voters and is part of the country's efforts to assure security and reduce potential for fraud. Biometric scanning of fingerprints is expected to be required in future elections.”It's incredibly rewarding to know that our hard work in developing industry leading enrollment and verification fingerprint sensors for solution providers like Akiyama is contributing to something as important as elections in democratic countries.,” Steve Thies, Integrated Biometrics CEO said.Akiyama is a digital identification market leader which is held in high regard within Brazil's biometrics community, providing and developing biometric enrollment, authentication, and recognition solutions for government institutions as well as banking and commercial sector industries.”The Watson Mini is the world's smallest FBI Appendix F Certified two-finger roll scanner complete with a full featured software development kit and seamless, quick integration features. The device utilizes Integrated Biometrics' patented LES (Light Emitting Sensor) Technology making it smaller and more durable than other two-finger roll scan mobile biometric fingerprint readers on the market.”Brazil has been at the forefront of the electronic voting movement since the late 1990s, and became the first country to have elections by an electronic voting system in 2000. Voter verifiability is one of the main security issues, with movement toward developing convenient, mobile voter ID systems to reach rural areas. This push is being seen in other countries around the world, including even here in the U.S.; Lawerence Denney, the newly elected Secretary of State in Idaho, has been quoted on the record as wanting to enhance the security of the election process using new technology that scans fingerprints.”One of the strongest drivers in our industry is the move toward mobile solutions as smartphones, apps on phones, and cloud-based solutions have made everything mobile. We are seeing this reflected in the push for voter registration internationally,” Thies explained, adding, “In places like Brazil, South America, Africa where rural voters have limited or no means of getting to a central place to register and cast their ballot, mobile biometrics technology can bring the voting process to them.”

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