Fingerprints, like ballistics, is about 80% science, and 20% black art, despite all the gee-whizz stuff they show on TV. I was at a police equipment show, and received a demo of a thumbprint scanner that was supposed to prevent mixed-up identities in jails. The salesman made a an image of my thumbprint, which was laminated into an ID card. He put the card in a reader, and then placed his thumb on the scanner. The hardware said we were identical.
He was very embarrassed, so he made a print of his own thumb, and then compared it to mine. Our prints were identical enough for the quickie system to proclaim them one and the same. Of course, our other nine fingers didn't match, but our thumbs were close enough that it would take a real expert several minutes to tell them apart.
Ten good prints gets you to a folder with 2 or 200 sets of prints that match the "quick" classification. It then takes a real expert to go through the entire bunch to look for a match.
Of course, if the wrong prints are assigned to the wrong name, and the government is too lazy to do anything about it, all the technical expertice in the world won't help you.
"Of course, if the wrong prints are assigned to the wrong name, and the government is too lazy to do anything about it, all the technical expertice in the world won't help you."
Trying to get any government type to consider something like this is like beating your head against the wall. I once had to tell a tax office employee at least six times that a shed which was on an aerial photograph of my property was there when I bought the property. She asked over and over what it cost to build and why I wasn't paying taxes on it. I kept repeating that it was there when I bought the property and I paid taxes on the basis of their tax bills which they sent me for the property. I suppose it would have been easier to tell her that I built it myself out of fifty dollars worth of scrap materials.