"They remain treated as temporary migrants and, without that piece of paper, some form of identification, they are not able to access many of these government schemes that exist now, that have large funds behind them and could actually make a huge difference in poor people's lives,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

You go to the table for your election district, sign in, and then wait while an election worker laboriously writes onto a paper form your voter identification information.

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Using techniques such as the ones used in this paper, though, are now being applied to finally get more reliable identification.

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