Mozambique Municipal & National Elections
Nearly two-thirds of the 30.3M Mozambicans live in rural areas. They face tremendous logistical and communication challenges when it comes to being able to access voter registration for municipal and general elections.
With dual election needs: municipal (2018) and presidential (2019), Mozambique needed a customized biometric voter registration and verification solution that would be mobile, reliable, accurate, and deliver a secure voters Registration Roll.
From registration to municipal vote in only 8 weeks
Laxton quickly and efficiently supplied the biometric voter registration solution for the Mozambique municipal elections. The full solution involved biometric voter registration kits, data collection centres, a central voter management system, supplies, and in-country management and technical support.
Integrating in solar power to accompany the battery in the kits allowed for the election officials to have a reliable power source in a country that is wide-spread and faces technical connection issues.
8 Weeks
To register. 6.8 Million people to vote in Municipal Elections.
Real time
Risk assessment. Customized technical resources and solutions
Solar power
Combined with battery. To ensure central and regional servers operate despite logistical challenges
Mobile
User-friendly and light-weight kits. Able to reach a widespread population across the country.
End-to-end solution for General Election
With the impending General Election that was fast approaching on October 19, 2019, the government of Mozambique needed to ensure that they would again be able to securely register their many millions of citizens.
Our team developed a customized integrated biometric end-to-end solution for the election. From design to manufacturing and then to in-country delivery and implementation, we ensured that each person could access registration regardless of their location.
11 technical teams were deployed to facilitate, oversee, and support the delivery of services in each of the eleven provinces across the country.
