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My country introduced biometric voter registration (BVR) in 2012. In one of the stakeholders meetings at the field, I was challenged to explain whether voters would be allowed to vote even if they did not have identification documents.
One stakeholder argued that the purpose of the ID is to identify a person, and if BVR could also do the same, then the commission should not turn away those voters who may have lost their IDs a few months or weeks before the general election. These stakeholders were reacting to a form of electoral malpractice, whereby voters are disenfranchised so as to make their preferred candidate lose.
In my country, the electoral law says you must present identification documents before voting. This implies that without these documents, you will not be allowed to proceed to the other step where you are identified by the BVR machine.