DigitalPersona, Inc., a provider of fingerprint authentication solutions for enterprise networks and commercial applications, announces that Labcal Technologies has incorporated DigitalPersona's biometric fingerprint technology into its voter registration solution as part of the project for the Nigerian general elections scheduled for April of 2007. The digital fingerprint solutions will be used to register 58 million eligible voters, and subsequently accurately authenticate voters' identities in the upcoming election, and ensuring each citizen can only vote one time.

Labcal, whose technology is being used globally for several applications in civil identification, physical access and PC/network access, is part of a multi-phase project to deliver mobile biometric enrollment and verification software for the Nigerian independent national electoral commission (INEC).

"DigitalPersona is very pleased to be working with Labcal and Olivetti to make its reliable optical U.are.U readers an essential component for the INEC project," says Fabio Righi, president and CEO of DigitalPersona. "Using our fingerprint technology in this environment is a testament to the reliability and accuracy of our readers to easily register citizens at the upcoming election."

"We selected DigitalPersona because of their deep understanding of biometric computing environments and their technology and price meeting the requirements of this critical phase of the project. DigitalPersona demonstrated an unequalled capability to deliver large quantities, in the very short time frame we had to deal with," says Pierre Root, CEO of Labcal. "With our combined expertise, we are providing a reliable, accurate and easy to use fingerprint biometric solution that will be a global model in combating election tampering."

"We saw a chance to make a real difference in improving the Nigerian general elections by fighting voter fraud," says Fabio Cozzani, vice president of sales for Olivetti in Latin America and responsible of this project. "DigitalPersona's fingerprint readers are an essential part of the voter solution assembled by Olivetti for this INEC project."

DigitalPersona solutions enable developers in various industries such as civil ID, financial services, healthcare, retail, and state and local government with optical reader and software development tools to deliver the security and convenience of fingerprint authentication.