na wa o!
dem iwu wan go nuclear 4 2011
dont be suprised 2 see Obama and Biden on the register, afterall, founder of CAC wey don die tey vote 4 2007 4 this same naija.

This court doesn't know wat its doin,
By allowing Nigerians abroad to vote,they hav given the election riggers wat the need to rig with some degree of transparency.

I think Nigerians in diaspora voting in their respective countries of residency should not be a problem.

For example, The UK already has a good system and they have data on 'legal' Nigerians in the country 'temporarily' or 'long term'. If Nigerians are allowed to vote on Nigeria's election day in their respective local councils (eradicating the need to travel to london from scotland or wherever), with UN observers present at all possible locations, Votes counted at the end of the exercise, figures released to INEC and all Nigerians, INEC puts all the figures together(unrigged hopefully).

All INEC needs to do is collaborate with the respective countries and use the facilities those countries already have in place!

Voila!We are almost there!

I am looking forward to being able to support someone who deserves it with my vote in 2011. Go INEC! Go Nigerians!

seyibrown:



For example, The UK already has a good system and they have data on 'legal' Nigerians in the country 'temporarily' or 'long term'. !

Only the Home Office have such a data base(Not even the Police lol) and might not legally be made available to the Local authorities(Data protection Acts).Morealso the administrative charges will too be much for Naija to pay to the UK authorities.
One of the solutions  is for eligible voters to register with the Nigeria High commission and the election conducted by post.

@brownbonno

For example, The UK already has a good system and they have data on 'legal' Nigerians in the country 'temporarily' or 'long term'. !

My point was any significant difference in the number of votes and the data held will not go unnoticed.

You see, I don't exactly trust the 'political appointees' at the helm of affairs at the embassies/ high commissions to give a true account of 'Nigerian votes in the post' when they know their 'appointments' depend on their 'ogas' or 'ogas' appointees' remaining in power.

Nigeria can afford to pay. There will be international support, there has always been. e.g. UN JOINT BASKET DONOR FUND in 2007! Funny you say Naija can't afford it. We can afford to keep and fund the extravagant lifestyles of all our 'polithievians' though! LOL!

Just an idea anyway.

i hpe dis is true

Any development on this? What have you heard? Thanks.

Not interested in voting . . .so will not participate in the poll on this thread.
Not that jobless.
A bloody waste of time and resources.
Nigerian votes do not count. . . only rigging!
May the better rigger win. . .Amen!

Gooooooooooooo "Tikkkkkkkkkkkkkku"!!!

So any news for citizens abroad?

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Voter registration under threat, three days to go 
By Dayo Oketola   
Tuesday, 11 Jan 2011
Punch Newspaper

Three days to the commencement of the long-awaited registration of voters, about 46,000 units of the 132,000 Direct Data Capturing machines ordered by the Independent National Electoral Commission are yet to arrive the country.

The contracts were awarded to three companies — Avante Technology, Haier Electrical Appliances Corporation of China, and Zinox Technologies.

While Zinox, an indigenous information technology company, has supplied 77, 000 units out of the 80,000 awarded to it by INEC, Haier is said to have supplied only 9,000 units out of 30,000.

Avante, a United States technology company, is to supply 22, 000 units of the electronic equipment but had as at Monday not delivered even one.
Under the terms of contract, the companies are to deliver the machines on or before the commencement of the registration on Saturday.

A very senior INEC official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, made this known to our correspondent on Monday.
The INEC official, in a telephone interview from Abuja, said that the commission was worried about the development.
He said, “We are worried that all the DDC machines have not arrived in the country. With only three days to the registration of voters how do we send the equipment to the states that have not received the number that they are supposed to use for the exercise. We are disturbed because of the difficult terrain in many of the states.
“As I talk to you today (Monday), Avante has not delivered even one machine. Hair has done only about 30 per cent of the quantity awarded to it while Zinox has been able to deliver 77,000 pieces.”

But another senior source in INEC, who corroborated his colleague, however, said there was no cause for alarm as the commission would be able to conduct the exercise with just 120,000 DDC machines.
He said, “Despite the challenges we are facing with one of the contractors, who is yet to make good its promise to deliver the DDC machines before the commencement of the registration, INEC is better prepared for the process than it was in 2006.
“The commission will be able to commence the registration with 120,000 DDC machines if Avante does not supply before Saturday. I am saying 120,000 units because I am very optimistic that before Friday, more of them would arrive in the country.”
Our correspondent could not contact Avante on why it has not supplied the 22,000 units of DDC machines.

When contacted, the Head, Corporate Affairs, Zinox Technologies, Mr. Echika Ezuka, confirmed that the indigenous IT company had delivered 77,000 units.
He said, “Zinox is 100 per cent in-country as far as the DDC machines are concerned. We have delivered about 97 per cent with three per cent more to go due to logistics reasons. With Zinox equipment, INEC was able to train people for the registration exercise.”
Zinox had on December 7, 2010 brought in 14,000 units of the electronic equipment out of which some were stolen the following day at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.

The theft generated so much controversy that the commission repeatedly assured that the voter registration would not be affected by the development.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201101114473462
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