Niceiroko:
Vote does not count

naptu2:


State independent electoral commissions have always conducted local government elections. It's actually in the 1999 constitution.





http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm#StateIndependentElectoralCommission

naptu2:


State independent electoral commissions have always conducted local government elections. It's actually in the 1999 constitution.





http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm#StateIndependentElectoralCommission

Ichokwu:
Electronic Rigging Machine, you mean?

khadaffi:

I never said state electoral commissions were not responsible for the conduct of LG elections. If you saw that in my post point it out. My point is that the fact that various states are now hurriedly conducting LG elections might be a pointer that the powers might soon leave that of the state and move to the Federal

naptu2:


This was one of the issues raised in the National Assembly when Professor Jega attempted to introduce electronic voting and it is also one of the issues that bothers me about electronic voting.

I saw the disaster that was called the 1983 elections and one of the problems with that election was that people felt that the ballot boxes were already stuffed with ballot papers before any voting was done. FEDECO used opaque wooden ballot boxes and you couldn't tell if there was already something inside the box before voting commenced.

This was one of the problems that Professor Humphrey Nwosu was trying to avoid and that's why he introduced the open ballot system. In the open ballot system, voters queued behind the symbol of their party or picture of their candidate. The number of voters in the queue was counted and everybody could easily see who won the election. So there was no room for rigging.

However, human rights groups complained that voters could easily be intimidated because everybody could see who you voted for. I saw this live in the 1991 elections when a politician's security guard voted for the politician's opponent. The man sacked the security guard that same day.

So Professor Nwosu introduced the open-secret ballot system (which we use now). The ballot boxes are transparent, so you can see if there's anything in it. The voter goes to a secluded place and thumb prints the ballot paper and then he comes out in the open to put the ballot paper in the ballot box. This way, nobody knows who you are voting for, but everybody can see that the ballot box has not been stuffed.

The challenge with electronic voting is that it is not "open" enough for Nigerians to believe in it. How will you know/believe that the machines have not been hacked or pre-programmed to favour a candidate?

naptu2:










Local government elections are conducted by state electoral commissions. They are not conducted by INEC. The Kaduna State Government is purchasing electronic voting machines for the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (SIECOM) to use in conducting the local government elections in Kaduna on May 12th. According to them, it will be the first time that electronic voting machines are used in Nigeria.

naptu2:


This was one of the issues raised in the National Assembly when Professor Jega attempted to introduce electronic voting and it is also one of the issues that bothers me about electronic voting.

I saw the disaster that was called the 1983 elections and one of the problems with that election was that people felt that the ballot boxes were already stuffed with ballot papers before any voting was done. FEDECO used opaque wooden ballot boxes and you couldn't tell if there was already something inside the box before voting commenced.

This was one of the problems that Professor Humphrey Nwosu was trying to avoid and that's why he introduced the open ballot system. In the open ballot system, voters queued behind the symbol of their party or picture of their candidate. The number of voters in the queue was counted and everybody could easily see who won the election. So there was no room for rigging.

However, human rights groups complained that voters could easily be intimidated because everybody could see who you voted for. I saw this live in the 1991 elections when a politician's security guard voted for the politician's opponent. The man sacked the security guard that same day.

So Professor Nwosu introduced the open-secret ballot system (which we use now). The ballot boxes are transparent, so you can see if there's anything in it. The voter goes to a secluded place and thumb prints the ballot paper and then he comes out in the open to put the ballot paper in the ballot box. This way, nobody knows who you are voting for, but everybody can see that the ballot box has not been stuffed.

The challenge with electronic voting is that it is not "open" enough for Nigerians to believe in it. How will you know/believe that the machines have not been hacked or pre-programmed to favour a candidate?

slightlyMad:
Lol, daft midget trying to do inecs job for inec
Is he that desperate?

naptu2:

Local government elections are conducted by state electoral commissions. They are not conducted by INEC. The Kaduna State Government is purchasing electronic voting machines for the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (SIECOM) to use in conducting the local government elections in Kaduna on May 12th. According to them, it will be the first time that electronic voting machines are used in Nigeria.

naptu2:



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Local government elections are conducted by state electoral commissions. They are not conducted by INEC. The Kaduna State Government is purchasing electronic voting machines for the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (SIECOM) to use in conducting the local government elections in Kaduna on May 12th. According to them, it will be the first time that electronic voting machines are used in Nigeria.

OhiOfIhima:
Hope it will be use to send Buba back to Daura! Make dem check am because dis kind machine might in turn work against d populace.