What Biometric Technology Does and Doesn’t Add to Voting
THE SO WHAT
Biometric voting is a trade of paper-based fraud vectors for digital and biometric failure modes — database integrity, spoofing, disenfranchisement at scale. If your product ever touches civic identity, assume biometrics will be demanded politically and start designing for auditability, consent, and rollback paths now.
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