Nigerian Invents Anti-Rigging Machine!

A Nigerian businessman based in the United Kingdom, Mr. Ben Aghanya, has invented a machine that can prevent election rigging and foster the growth of democracy in Nigeria.

Demonstrating the invention to newsmen in Enugu on Thursday, Aghanya said he designed the machine to prevent a recurrence of the malpractices that characterised the last general election in the country.

According to him, the machine, christened Electro -Mechanical Voting System, relies on internally-connected 12 volts DC power and battery , making it independent of electricity supply.

He explained that EMVS was designed to eliminate the catalogue of problems associated with electoral systems in Nigeria, assuring that the machine could reduce electoral fraud to the barest minimum.

Aghanya, who is the Managing Director of Ajacin Engineering Limited, stated that he was motivated to go into research for the production of the machine by what he described as the anomaly in the nation‘s electoral system.

He said, ” I have taken part in past elections in Nigeria and I have witnessed anomalies but nobody has come out with a solution . I was particularly not happy with the way Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, was rigged out in the state in 2003. ”

Hilighting the attributes of his invention, he said that the machine has a memory which can store evidence of polling exercise for as long as possible, stressing that the essential parts are tamper-proof, a safeguard against the manipulation of evidence.

Aghanya said, ” The EMVS is secure for the following reasons: More than one person is required to control the voting process - minimizing rigging or connivance . All essential system units are locked . The machine has memory which can be stored as evidence as long as possible.”

He called on the Federal Government and the Independent National Electoral Commission to discard the old manual balloting system and adopt the machine, promising to mass produce it locally in order to provide employment for many Nigerians.

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it's a nice invention but that's not our problem here.
our problems are entirely based on human beings and not technology.

that machine is going to be operated by someone or a group people.

what's the assurance these people will refuse the quick cash ?

ok let me make it simple;

will the poll result be calculated and read out to the media/public by the machine or human beings ?

*Anti-rigging i'd have preferred anti-election rigging machine; then we'll be certain there'll be a post-election rigging *

Wormy, nawa for you o. It is an 'anti election Rigging' Machine.

Didn't you read the article? 

I'm sure there would be provisions for the Press to monitor the results from the Machine. That's if Yar Adua adopts it anyway! 

so what happens to post-election rigging ?

Wormy, Election == Pre-election + Post-election!     

I'm still trying to get a picture of the machine. When I do, I'll post it. 

 Machine go talk I'm own
 Prof Iwuruwuru go announce another tin
 them go swear in Rigger Winner
 them go scatter soja for town to shi any bagga wey wan protest
 Life goes on. . .  

A succesful election needs a blend of human and technical factors. At least this guy has profered a technical one. 1 good thing i see in the machine (@ least from what i read) is that it can store votes as long as possible. This is good because the loss of materials/evidence is what is stalling the election tribunals presently. Perhaps his machine needs more constructive scrutiny so it can be better. Getting elections right is a wholistic thing - technology and people.

initiator,

remember the time two steamers got lost
what's a ballot box compared to a ship ! ?

@ wormedup the guy didnt say the machines would be shipped. He said it can be mass produced in nig.
Your cynicism is not misplaced for this is nigeria but we don't give up on the system, do we? Electoral reform encompasses constitutional review, electoral reform, THE SACK OF IWU and yes, full proof machines.

This is the same e-voting system that Iwuruwuru called for initially but we rejected it. So what are we now saying? This Aghanyi guy did not invent anything. He just imported it.

This type of voting must first register accurate individual identities of Nigerians through finger prints or retinal scan. In fact, I think I prefer recording it with retinal scan so that during the voting, if anybody's records are not found in the system, or the system finds the person has registered more than once, it will just burn out the person's retinae.

Now that is a real anti-rigging system. By the time one person goes blind because of double voting, everybody will straighten up. I wonder how many political thugs will agree to risk going blind for N1000 bribe.

Invent? Don't think so.

No machine can stop rigging, in fat it will make it easier if the riggers know what to do. A simple line of code can guarantee a landslide for a particular party by increasing the votes of a party by 300 for every vote that gets to any other party.

Well sha, in a city full of blind people one eyed man na king.

This is  more a case of crude self promotion than anything significant.

This is a good story and should be appaulded. It might need some further advancements but is a good spirit and a good way to start.

God why am a brother to some of these people, you are all bunch of phucking pessimist, Kudos to the inventor, we  need more people like that, is very evident that if the machine could be able to retain data's for long, then it might be possible to improve it to calculate results instantly [ ie if he has not done that ], the fact that is using battery is not a problem [ for it to retain information he would have introduced a back up system or back up battery ], it could be converted to use electricity, I think the guy is thinking of on the line of power failure which is prevalent in Nigeria, people invented cash machine and today is efficient and save, this reminds of ''proda'' from  Anambra state, don't you think that you are all pulling us back?.