The Impact of The Biometric System on Election Fraud Elimination: Case of The North of IRAQ

Abstract

In recent years technology and management information system has been an excellent response too many global challenges, technology innovation has expanded over almost all the sectors of, and it made many processes more accurate and very faster than before. Technology systems playeda big role part in election processes in many democratic countries nowadays. The commission, in Iraq, suffers from many problems such as fraud, time-consuming and delays in the election processes that take a long time and also witness a delay in revealing the results. This research paper focuses on adapting the biometric system in Iraq; there are several different perspectives to specify the IHEC's employees and manager's attitude towards technology in general and Biometric system specifically. Most of the staff members feel confident about transforming into a technology system. In their responses to the questionnaires, most of them focused on getting trained before they start using the system. In this research, the data is collected by using survey technique from the independent high electoral commission managers and staff members, and the data is analyzed by using SPSS.