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This chapter contextualizes the project by discussing two main issues: the political history of Ghana as well as some issues that drive political circumstances in Africa and the biometric technology as a global technology that ensures authenticity. After a thorough discussion of the larger context for the country’s contemporary political situation, the chapter reviews the literature on biometric technology. Further, the chapter discusses why biometric technology has become a global technology and how its affordances can (perceivably) provide some kind of hope for those countries that want to enhance their electoral integrity. The political history of Ghana and the brief description of the biometric will help readers to appreciate the global/local logic which pushed the EC and other stakeholders to adopt the biometric technology to solve a local problem.
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Dorpenyo, I.K. (2020). Biometric Technology: The Savior of a Risky Electoral System. In: User Localization Strategies in the Face of Technological Breakdown. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26399-7_2
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