The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that it would use smart card reader and discarded the use of incident form for the 2019 election.
The electoral body used smart card reader in 2015 general elections as well as incident form. Prof. Godswill Obioma, a Commissioner in INEC, revealed on Wednesday in Abakaliki at the end of a three-day training for implementers of the Election Monitoring and Support Centre (EMSC). Obioma said that the decision was part of policy enunciations made by the Commission’s chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu recently in Abuja during a series of engagements with stakeholders, including the National Peace Committee.Smart card reader will be used in the election of 2019, that is the determining factor and that is to say that smart card will be used for first level of screening of those with their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs). “The PVC has been configured as a biometric platform and smart card reader is supposed to recognise such biometrics. “If you come with your PVC and it is your own, it is slotted into the smart card reader it will throw up your biometrics, including your physiognomy and your face and if that happen you move to the next stage of checking if your name is on the register. “If your name is checked and found in the INEC’s voter register, you are given a ballot paper and that is the process we are going to use. “But in the unlikely event that the smart card reader fails to identify your face and your name is on the register; such incident can happen, we don’t use
incidence form as in the past because of all sorts of challenges associated with it. “What we are going to do if such development occurs is to go to the register, identify your name and thick a box to show that you are the owner of the name and your thumb print will be picked in case of litigation to show that you are the one that voted,” Obioma said. The resident commissioner commended participants to the workshop and noted that all strategic arrangements were in place for a credible, transparent and peaceful elections in Ebonyi.
He added that the training workshop was imperative for the successful implementation of the EMSC which he noted was an innovation introduced by the commission to enhance credibility of elections in the country. According to him, the EMSC is an integrated support system for monitoring the implementation of the 2019 Election Project Plan. He said that the EMSC initiative was an innovation by INEC to connect three components of the electoral processes which previously worked independently of one another resulting sometimes in role conflicts. “INEC developed the EMSC to bring together the three components of the electoral processes which in 2015 worked independently. “The three components are: election management system, election risk management and election operations support centre. “Whereas the election operations support centre focuses on just before the election day and immediately after the elections, the election risk management focuses on risks, litigation, identifying flash points and areas that need more security. “Election management system focuses on the entire election; so, all these components worked independently in 2015 and brought about role conflicts. “They were not supporting one another and so the whole idea of EMSC is to bring these components together into one integral part for the effective conduct of the 2019 general elections. “So, what the training has achieved is that we have assembled the implementers, trained them and equipped them with the necessary capacity needed to effectively function by understanding themselves as human persons”, he said.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/inec-insists-on-card-reader-discards-incident-form/

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We the Nigerians youths say no to the Daura Rigging master


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Very good development.

PDP kicked against the card reader and PVC in 2015 and both turned out to be what helped Nigerians to kick them out of Aso Rock. In 2019, both the card reader and the PVC will prove to be their greatest checkmate!

And without the use of incident form, it will add more transparency and credibility to the elections of 2019 which means "I wrote the result under special conditions" will no longer be acceptable and the almost 95% votes PDP got in Delta, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, etc are gone with the wind.

Now I can easily say PMB will win in a landslide in 2019.

Before you question why PMB didn't sign the Electoral Bill as passed by the theives in the NASS, please be educated that PMB is only against "announcing results without counting the votes" and the "electronic transmission of results to INEC Collation Centre" which can be hijacked and doctored in the process.

PMB/APC - 10, PDP/Atiku - 0

baliyubla:
Thank you INEC. The world and sensible Nigerians are with you on this. The Lifeless cretin must be sent back to Daura.

Buhari actually refused to assent to a version of the bill because the use of card reader was removed by the NASS

Thank you INEC. The world and sensible Nigerians are with you on this. The Lifeless cretin must be sent back to Daura.

Hehehehehe

Some people go don get heart attack now.

Okpari

My question is, what happens if the card reader fails to accredit those illegal voters up north? What guarantee do we have that the inec officials up there will be safe? Because I know with the card reader buhari can't get upto 10 million votes total.

I hope you will stick to this

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This is just gra gra by APC-induced INEC to calm the clamour for electoral act ascent by the presidency.

Truth is, INEC has no power whatsoever aside those provided for in the electoral act....and that act has not disbanded the use of incidence form yet.

What would happen is that, few days to the election, one mumu politician would go to court and get an injunction to compel INEC to use the incidence form.

This is exactly the reason why PDP is pushing for the reformed electoral act to be signed into law so that card readers would be legitimized and incidence forms disbanded once and for all.

Well. I am still suspicious of this INEC

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This guys have not even thought of the fact that some people's info might not be completely captured by the card reader but they will still be on the incident form.. Incompetence loading..

Card reader or not... the most important thing is stopping all almajiris from voting over there at North.
let Inec for once allow God to use them positively.

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I think that's a right step in a right direction.

No more hope for rigging. Back2Daura is sure

Weldone INEC please stick to your word.
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PDP had better sit up and not believe INEC. That was what Jega said in 2015 only to allow every Tom Dick and Harry in the north to vote without PVC accreditation, while many southerners were disenfranchised.

The president said no na,OK let me hear from our able APC sycophants here......

storyland

Only in Ebonyi?!

AustineCJ:
Card reader or not... the most important thing is stopping all almajiris from voting over there at North.
let Inec for once allow God to use them positively.

Wailer I don’t see you screaming PDP should be stopped from writting any figure they conjure in their brain in SE / SS during the 16 years misrule of the PDP. I trust 2019 will be as disappointing as 2015 for u.

maestroferdi:
Only a miracle will stop INEC from rigging this election...

How PDP did not insist, via the National Assembly, on removing Prof Mahmud Yakubu, Buhari's kinsman, beats my imagination...

The insisted but 25 million Saraki n Ekeremadu fathers dead or alive can not impose their desire on Nigerians maybe on Biafrans but not Nigerians.

mikeconfidence:
INEC is hell bent on giving buhari hypertension before election. Card readers wil send buhari parking from villa in 2019! On atikuobi mandate we stand! Pdp power!

you will still be back to blame the same INEC after Buhari will be declared the winner.

Only a miracle will stop INEC from rigging this election...

How PDP did not insist, via the National Assembly, on removing Prof Mahmud Yakubu, Buhari's kinsman, beats my imagination...

OK na

baliyubla:
Thank you INEC. The world and sensible Nigerians are with you on this. The Lifeless cretin must be sent back to Daura.

The music will change from reggae to blues some days to the genera election. This one na IG