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INEC to set up digital balloting machines for 2021 Anambra guber
The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu says the fee will introduce digital vote casting in 2021 Anambra governorship election.
Yakubu made this recognized in an interview with journalists on the sideline of the 2021 finances defence at the House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters on Wednesday in Abuja.
“It is challenging to supply you an notion of fee or when the manner would be concluded, however we are decided that we are going to install digital vote casting machines, digital balloting machines very quickly in our elections.
“Possibly starting with the Anambra governorship election subsequent year,” he said.
Earlier, Yakubu had informed the participants of the committee that the finances of the fee had persevered to decline over the years.
He recalled that in 2019, the envelop for INEC was once N45.5 billion whilst for 2020, the envelop used to be N40 billion.
The chairman stated that as a end result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the finances similarly dropped to N36 billion.
“As a result, the fee determined to appear inward, we have the INEC fund installed beneath Section 3 of the INEC Act the place we have some financial savings from preceding budgets due to the fact we are now not anticipated to remit unspent funds.
“We are on the first line cost and due to the fact of the peculiarities of our work, it is in the realisation of this that the parliament in amending the Electoral Act delivered the INEC fund for a quantity of reasons.
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