Guinea's National Independent Electoral Commission CENI is modernising its national voter register with assistance from Gemalto, an international digital security company.

According to Gemalto this included the use of 2,500 units of the Coesys Mobile Enrollment station, a portable biometric citizen registration kit deployed throughout the West African country.

"The aim was to ensure that millions of eligible voters were enrolled accurately and reliably ahead of elections which took place in October," the company said.

Frédéric Trojani, executive vice president of government programs at Gemalto, said, "Gemalto supported CENI in creating a modern voter register that can underpin democratic elections and for which secure voter registration is a critical step. Gemalto brought a high level of service for the management and perfect execution of this important project for Guinea's future."

A total of 5000 operators were hired, trained and successfully conducted the enrollment of voters across the country and abroad, using a front-end solution consisting of biometric citizen registration kits with dedicated software.

Bakary Fofana, president of CENI, added, "CENI put their trust in Gemalto to work as both a solution and service provider, responsible for operating the entire enrollment process in a 45-day critical timeline."

An Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to ensure unique and verifiable registration of citizens was implemented as a back-end solution by Gemalto.

The biometric and personal data acquired were securely consolidated to build a national voter register without any duplication according to the company.

The solution also featured software modules to allow the printing of voters' lists and voters' cards by CENI.

Alpha Conde was re-elected as president of Guinea following the October 11 poll.