Civic tech
Hands-Free Voting Kiosk
Biometric registration and a ballot you cast with your face and your hand.
A biometric voter registration desk and a voting kiosk with no keyboard and no mouse, built around Nigeria's actual election structure. You pick a language — English, Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa — look at the camera, point at the party you want, hold for a second, confirm, and move to the next office. A full review screen comes before anything is submitted.
Face recognition and hand tracking do the input. Every voice prompt is pre-rendered rather than synthesised on demand, which means the kiosk needs no internet connection at any point during voting.
This is a prototype and not election infrastructure, and it is not affiliated with INEC. Building it was a way to think hard about ballot secrecy, accessibility, language and lighting — and about how easily you can build something that looks impressive and still fails the people who need it most.
How it is built
- No keyboard and no mouse: registration and voting run on face recognition and hand tracking alone.
- Four languages at the point of use, chosen by the voter before anything else happens.
- Voice prompts pre-rendered, so the kiosk is fully offline while a vote is being cast.
- A review screen before submission, with each office voted separately.
- Built as a prototype to interrogate ballot secrecy and accessibility, not as a product to sell to anyone.