He has painstakingly prepared for the task over the past four years by studying the rigging methods used in previous elections, implementing an elaborate system of voter registration, training thousands of electoral staff, and introducing biometric readers to identify voters by reading their thumbprint.
A bloody thumbprint on a cashbox became the first used in obtaining a conviction in 1905, sending to the gallows the Stratton brothers who battered an elderly couple to death in a bungled raid.
By contrast, safety features on firearms such as smartguns unlocked by an owner's thumbprint or a radio-frequency encryption are opposed by the National Rifle Association, whose allies in Congress also block funding for the sort of public-health research that might show, in even clearer detail, the cost of America's love affair with guns.
David Strada, NZWG's marketing manager in America, gives the example of New Zealand's characteristic Sauvignon Blancs and Rieslings, which show the thumbprint of the unusually long, cool growing season.
Lamberto Dini, a former prime minister himself, will also stay on, as foreign minister.Mr D'Alema has put his own thumbprint elsewhere.
There are even memory sticks or flash drives secured with built-in thumbprint scanners.For a long time it was assumed that biometrics would be a government-led technology, says Sapna Capoor, an analyst at Frost and Sullivan, a consultancy.
But Mahmud could not read or write Hebrew and signed with his thumbprint, surrendering his rights.The activists argue that Amidar wants to kick out Arab families out of Ajami because they are getting in the way of developers.
This is possible because in some respects banks in India are already streets ahead of their counterparts in richer countries.Passengers arriving at the airport in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, are greeted by an advertisement for a bank account that allows payments to be authorised by a biometric identifier: a thumbprint.
Like the election ballots, these forms require a signature and a thumbprint: the implication that the government will monitor how they vote does not need to be spelled out.
And indeed, there was nothing surprising about the result: from an 87% turnout, 93% put their thumbprint in the box marked "Yes".The purpose of the new constitution, a product of nearly two years of reasonably transparent debate, is to allow more democracy without inviting another genocide.
Illiterate young men from rural Pakistan fly into Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital, their passports signed with a thumbprint.
