Press Release Source: Identix Incorporated
Identix Signs Collaboration Agreement with the Prime Contractor Sagem Defense Securite to Deliver World's Largest Multi-Biometric Identification System for Mexico's Election System
Thursday May 18, 8:17 am ET
System Will Help Ensure ''One Person, One Vote''
MINNETONKA, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2006--Identix Incorporated (Nasdaq:IDNX - News) announced today a collaboration agreement with Sagem Defense Securite (Paris:FR0000073272 - News) to deploy a large-scale, turnkey, multi-biometric system in Mexico for the Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) to detect multiple registration and eliminate identity fraud in the Mexican national voter registry. Sagem Defense Securite's Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) and Identix' ABIS(TM) biometric matching platform are being integrated by the prime contractor Sagem Defense Securite into a multi-biometric identification system that uses both fingerprint and facial recognition to help ensure that each Mexican citizen is registered only once in the national voter rolls. Eventually, the program is expected to process some 72 million voters, with throughput of 100,000 registrations and ID searches per day. Upon completion, this program is expected to be the largest multi-biometric identification system in the world.
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Identix is a subcontractor to Sagem Defense Securite, the prime contractor on the program. Identix will provide its FaceItŪ-powered ABIS biometric matching platform, to enable the facial recognition matching function of the multi-biometric system. The system is being designed to process 87 million records over the initial two year period and can scale to meet a potential capacity requirement of 102 million records. At the request of the prime contractor, the current and future value of the subcontract was not announced.
The two-year program is being deployed in two phases. The first phase involves reworking the existing electoral databases to incorporate the Companies' integrated multi-biometric system. Operated by IFE's personal, this system is loading the 66 million digital fingerprints already recorded and searching them since February 2006 to detect any duplicates in the current voter rolls.
During the second calendar quarter of 2006, Identix' ABIS system will be used to convert approximately 70 million existing ID photos into biometric templates to create a searchable biometric portrait base. Identix' ABIS is being designed to meet this program's demanding performance requirements of more than 2 million image enrollments and more than 50,000 search per day with response times of under one minute.
Digital fingerprint data for the multi-biometric system is provided by more than 2,500 MorphoTouch(TM) terminals located around the country. The IFE purchased these from Sagem Defense Securite in previous contracts.
The second phase will kick off in the later half of 2006 when the multi-biometric system will start handling the real-time processing of new requests. Using the multi-biometric data, the IFE will check newly registered voters, to make sure that they only appear once on the rolls. By December 2007, the database shall be expanded to include some 72 million people.
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While that may sound fine and dandy, let's not forget that jobs depend on who gets elected. Even in PEMEX the local "bosses" determine who gets employed, and who gets turned away. It's not like our system where only the highest levels can get canned.
An example is the State of TX govt., Perry can replace the director of the Teacher's Retirement fund, or Texas Workforce Comm., but he cannot fire and hire within the agencies, especially based upon your political standings. In Mexico they can and do without hesitation, even if you are qualified for the job or not. It's sort of like taking one step forward after an election, then taking two steps back after you hire friends, girlfriends and family that know nothing about the job at hand or how the different systems work.
I wonder if the dead people will still make it to the polls.
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