The multibiometric identification system integrates both digital fingerprints and facial recognition to ensure that each citizen is registered only once in the national voter rolls. It will eventually process some 72 million voters, with a capacity of 100,000registrations and ID searches per day.
The two-year program will be deployed in two phases.
The first involves reworking the existing electoral databases to set up the multibiometric system. Operated by the Mexican government, this system will search the 66 million digital fingerprints already recorded to detect any duplicates in
the current voter rolls.
During the second quarter of 2006, the 70 million ID photos
will be digitized to create a biometric portrait base.The second phase will kick off in the second half of 2006. The multibiometric
system, integrating an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) and facial recognition, will start operation, handling the real-time processing of new requests.
Using the multibiometric data, the IFE will check newly registered voters, to make sure that they only appear once on the rolls. By December 2007, the data base will be expanded to include some 72 million people. Digital fingerprint data for the multibiometric system is provided by more than 2 500
MorphoTouch terminals located around the country. The IFE purchased these from Sagem Défense Sécurité in previous contracts.
Through this program, Mexico will have reliable voter rolls, eliminating the risk of registering the same person more than once. This contract bolsters Sagem Défense Sécurité's world leadership in this critical market, confirming its unrivalled expertise in multibiometric ID system, and ability to
provide solutions covering large populations. Biometric ID systems by Sagem Défense Sécurité are already operational in 55 countries.