Ballot Box Snatching

In 2007 when I ran for the Federal House of Reps under the defunct ANPP, ballot box snatching alongside voter intimidation and vote padding were in vogue. Several miracles usually happen between the PU and the collation centres on Election Day. This was possible because security agents were always part of the grand plan.

You cannot be sure you won an election based on the results from your agents in the field until the RO declares the winner and that also depends largely on the result sheets that gets accepted by the Returning Officer who back then was like a demi-god.

In 2019, snatching ballot box from PU to PU will render votes invalid because every Polling Unit has a unique digital number. This digitalized system of voting makes box snatching old-fashioned and useless because votes become instantly invalidated.

Mr. President, the Opposition parties and all online political analysts need to take time to study INEC’s Election Technology to have a full understanding of this.

Thinking out loud, my own concerns are the new innovations which include the cloning of ballots and other sensitive materials, and the fact that our security architecture is not particularly trustworthy or should I say highly compromised and partial.

Forget all the beer parlour gists about integrity, the main contending parties in this election will outspend each other “dollar for dollar and naira for naira” on Election Day. In fact the ruling party will spend double if not triple of whatever their main opposition rival parties will spend because they need to assert that they have access to the “national pot of soup.”

More importantly, the ruling party will do everything within and outside the books to retain power and this will come at an unpleasant cost considering the pervasive poverty and hunger across the country. Ballot snatching is not even a major issue in this election.

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The senile dictator in Aso-rock is still stuck in the past(effects of dementia)..remember his"West-Germany and East-Central states statements?..right

..That is why he still thinks "ballot-box-snatching is how he rigged himself in in 2015..

Unfortunately his hungry and teeming zombies programmed to be stuupid simply towed the line of "snatch-ballotbox and die" even when 99% of them knows that snatching ballot-boxes is an out-dated method of rigging..

They just love being daft.

Majority of Nigerians had already made up their minds on who to vote on Feb 23. Money spent on that day wont have much effects in the outcome of the elections