Nigeria, INEC: Electronic Voting for Election 2007?

"Delegates to the National Political Reform Conference (NPRC), on 1 June were treated to a demonstration of the working of the proposed electronic voting machine (EVM).

"The conference’s Committee on Political Parties and Electoral Reforms had among others recommended the use of electronic voting machine for future elections in the country for its rigging-proof mechanism."
Delegates test-run proposed electronic voting machine - Nigeriafirst

"The Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC], yesterday announced that the controversial Electronic Voting System (EVS) would be used for the 2007 elections."

"However, the deployment of the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that would be used as part of the EVS would depend on the outcome of a pilot project to test its desirability.

INEC Adopts Electronic Voting - Sun News Online - August 5, 2005

What's your opinion on the proposed use of Electronic Voting Machines in the upcoming 2007 Democratic elections?

I laid my hands on the prospectus come catalogue of the EVM from Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), going by what they have displayed and the information in this prospectus, I think Nigeria will be better off with it.

This should not stop us from knowing the fact that there will surely be some shortcomings, ranging from e-rigging, multiple voting to miscalculation on the part of the machines. The only way to minimise this is, if all Ballot stations in each ward are connected to one another to one server in each LGA, then subsequently servers from the LGAs linked with one central server from the state, where all results will be released, making the state server the only authorised device to release the results at the state level. There should then be yet another single central server that connects all the state servers in the six geopolitical zones, and finally each of these zone's server connected to one centre server in the Headquarters of the electoral body. Access should be allowed for checks and balances but no modification of inputs and results. The computers should also be able to detect multiple voting and faze them out. As we all know that fingerprints are as unique as each individual, i.e. no two people have the same fingerprint, and it may even help in arresting the electorate who voted more than once). Of course this will require big-time  online but wireless LAN, WAN and Internet, which is will be expensive to run. I can't explain what I mean better than this, experts in computers and ICT should help me out, if you understand what I mean.

If this or something better or related to this is ensured, then we can talk of elections being free and fair, on the basis of computer intelligence. But if na to count station by station (Ballot Station by Ballot Station) manually before results can be announced, then it will be no better from the manual voting system, in fact the manual voting would have been better.

But in general, this will be a giant stride and breakthrough for Nigeria, then the government should be thinking of e-census for accurate counting.

Dear All,
you  all know the  Nigeria you have ? Common National ID  card they have not been able to achive. If the government had succeded with this without fraud and all the logistics problems, I would have given a word of encouragement. But  in this God  forsaken country where greed flows like red blood capsules in the viens of Nigeriaaaa............ SORRY NO

Mark my word It could end up worse , Someone will either steal the computer servers, corrupt the data, bribe the dataentry clerks to alter records, etc

We and India no dey the same  category abeg.. technology wise, patrotic wise, corruption wise. We  remain at the bottom of the  table.