Jordan’s Independent Elections Commission (IEC) has announced that efforts are being deployed to make the national digital ID acceptable for voter verification in the country’s next elections. The IEC Chairman, Musa Maaytah, disclosed the information recently during a meeting, at a time when the country is seeing progress in digital government service delivery with more than 1,500 government services now accessible digitally. As Jordan Times reports , the digital ID will be used through the Sanad platform as the IEC looks to ease up the voting process. According to Maaytah, discussions between the IEC, the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurs, and the Civil Status and Passport Department are ongoing, and the move is not only expected to facilitate voter verification, but also advance the government’s broader objectives of expanding its digital government program. Going by the plan, each registered voter will have their digital identity information available to an IEC agent at a polling station via the Sanad platform for verification on election day. At least 1.4 million persons have already obtained a digital ID in Jordan via the Sanad which is a unified digital ID entry point for access to all government services integrated with IrisGuard biometrics […]
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