Voter registration via phones coming very soon.

Why not make the ID numbers unique like the social security numbers.How difficult can that be?

Because the National Registration Bureau has refused and or is unable to and or is too incompetent and or too corrupt to do so.

And because Uhuru, Raila, Wanjiku, mpigs, senators, governors, you and me do not censure the National Registration Bureau to work efficiently as we demand of IErectoralBC.

the only way out is a 3rd generation ID card system that is centralized. apparently The NRB, has never run a centralised db. It has been a MANUAL system for many years with LOTS of errors!!

ID Numbers are 'yours' and other myths... like signature has to be a difficult to 'duplicate/forge' squiggle... your Passport is 'YOURS', your dad was always no.1, your land is YOURS!! myths galore!!

@ Masukuma I think they should be but in our case they are not. And because they are not unique, they cannot be used as a unique identifier by the IEBC during election. There is a possibility the IEBC was aware of this and that why biometric identification through finger prints and facial recognition is necessary.

Technology is just an enabler. It Is a means to an end, not an end in itself

anyone with large enough a dataset knows... ECK knew, IIEC knew, IEBC knew in 2012. it's not a new thing at all!! in 2012!! we had a thread here on the same matter










We all 'think' it's supposed to be...UNIQUE.. but my question is WHY DO WE THINK THIS WAY? @mahegoat... this is the same reasoning we have about voter registration acknowledgement slips and their 'inherent' meaning. We sit.. lie to each other that something is supposed to work in a certain way and has a certain meaning. we start acting as we have discussed and lied to ourselves and later we get a rude shock!
The only person who should tell you that the ID Number is UNIQUE is the person who issues it... not your mom..not your brother. not your pastor <-- even if all of these agree... talk to the person who issues the card uambiwe!!

Sio nyinyi peke yenu... tulikuwa mahali pia they had a similar problem - Audit reveals 2016 voters register has over 130,000 double voters, several anomalies

yes... just because you and others decide that something is 'real' does not make it real!!

Comps people know of GUIDs or UUIDs (globally Unique Identifiers, Universally Unique Identifiers) and most comps people would consider them UNIQUE... i mean it's in the name right? there should be no collision! but nope.. the number of random UUIDs which need to be generated in order to have a 50% probability of at least one collision is 2.71 quintillion!
they say the more you know - the more uncertain you become that a pure solution exists for a certain problem set. it means that the more certain of something you are - the more the probability that you know very little! Vendors of Biometric solutions will not sell you a solution that is rubber-stamped as being 100% error free. They are not stupid. they work towards reducing the error rates! So the perfection of a system asymptotically nears 100% but never gets there! Even dettol tries to tell you 99.9% of all KNOWN germs. There are all these qualifiers that people with knowledge use all over the place. people without knowledge are the ones that have no exceptions or qualifiers coz they have very limited knowledge.... so back to my point! for twins... the system does not care about how your faces look like the pattern of your minutiae is everything... heck you may have similar minutiae with someone who is not on your continent! they are random patterns that are FAIRLY UNIQUE!
is it POSSIBLE that twins will submit fingerprints that when extracted give the exact same minutiae - yes! is it PROBABLE - NO!! Possibility and Probability are not the same thing.

@aemathenge no system is error free/proof. But there is always a margin of error either + or - in efficeincy