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The Electronic-Transmssion of Results is actually done with the INEC’s Smart-Card Reader (SCR), and not the INEC’s Z-Pad.
The Z-Pad’s functions are totally different from that of the SCR.
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The INEC’s SCR doesn't require any form of Internet Connection for it transmit information.
The SCR uses ordinary mobile-phone network services, and it can even tap into any available network service around it (whether the network provider is nigerian-based or not).
If the SCR is even configured further, it can even use Radio-waves to transmit information. Whether SW or AM or FM Radio-waves, depending on the one that it detects, anyone that is available in that area would be used to transmit the necessary information.
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Thus, when the Engr. Ubale Maska from the NCC Team said:
“In all the polling units studied in 2018, only about 50% have 2g and 3g networks, adding that 4g network which is higher only exists where there is 3g network, therefore making the coverage inadequate.”,, it sounded so funny.
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Like, it means that the NCC definitely believes that the SCR uses internet connection to transmit information? They don't even know the full capabilities and functionalities of the SCR.
That's a very wrong belief on their side.
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In fact, both the NCC and the NASS should be schooled properly by the INEC on everything which the Electronic-Transmssion entails.
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And then, for the enlightenment of the public;
INEC should publish a Comprehensive Report of all the test-runnings of the “Electronic-Transmssion” which they have been doing in all the previous elections.

2. This comprehensive report should contain the success-ratings of all the respective test-runnings of the Electronic-Transmssion in each of the previous elections.

3. The Report should also contain the methodologies in details, and also, it should state clearly the Network services (and/or the internet services) that were used, whether they used ONLY the Network Services of the Nigerian-based Telecommunications network providers, or whether other Network Services from International Service Providers were tapped into.
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I for one,, I am one of such persons who would read such reports within the first few days they published it.

fergie001:
SOURCE

Electronic-Transmssion (as so far test-run by the INEC using the SCR) doesn't require Internet for it to function..
All it requires is ordinary mobile-phone network service.
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Therefore, NCC should stop talking about 2G, 3G and 4G, and tell us about the mobile-phone network coverage.

Woowww.!!
See Game Plan.!!
Chaaiii...
So, Obiano and Soludo’s Crew lost to Umeoji Crew??
Chaaiii..!!
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It's going to be very Hot.!!

ChineduAIaegbu:
Not even a single Anambra Senator..
Tụfịakwa!!!
What are they doing and where went them?

And they will be waiting for their sitting allowance...
Even in their absence..

Fahdiga:
Worthless bill

That might not be the end of the story yet.
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Let's continue to watch the tides.

I just hope that the Bill also took care of all these other following electoral offenders??

1. INEC-Staff manipulators?

2. Agents that buy votes on election day, as well as those that sponsored these buyers.

3. The individual vote-sellers themselves.

4. Any person that caused (or instigated) Electoral Violence and/or Electoral Malpractice, both on-site or off-site.. Even those that were caused online too.

5. Those people who set INEC facilities and equipments ablaze.

Senate passes Electoral Offences Commission Bill, okays 20-year jail term for ballot snatchers.
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The Senate on Tuesday (13th July, 2021) passed a bill seeking to establish the Electoral Offences Commission.

Titled “National Electoral Offences Commission Bill, 2021,” the bill prohibits any campaign against national interest.

The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Chairman of the committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC, Kano South), in his presentation, said the bill became imperative in view of INEC’s inability to prosecute electoral offenders in accordance with the provisions of a section 149 and 150(2) of the Electoral Act (as Amended).

“By the foregoing statistics, it is unrealistic to expect INEC to conduct free, fair and credible election and simultaneously prosecute Offences arising from the same elections.

“Indeed, INEC has at several occasions admitted that it lacks the wherewithal to cleanse the system.

“Its failure to prosecute even one percent 870,000 and over 900,000 alleged electoral Offences in 2011 and 2015 general elections respectively is an affirmation of the necessity for a paradigm shift on how we deal with electoral offences”, he said.

Accordingly, the Senate during consideration of the INEC committee report approved the establishment of the National Electoral Offences Commission.

The commission’s membership consists of the Chairman, Secretary and representatives from the Justice, Interior, Defence, and Information Ministries.

The function of the Commission includes investigating electoral Offences created in any laws relating to elections in Nigeria; prosecution of electoral offenders; and maintaining records of all persons investigated and prosecuted etc.

The Senate in Clause 12 of the bill approved at least five years imprisonment or a fine of at least N10 million or both, for any officer or executives of any association or political party that engages in electoral fraud that contravenes the provisions of clauses 221, 225(1)(2)(3) and (4) and 227 of the 1999 Constitution as amended.

It also gave the nod for at least 10 years imprisonment or at least 20 million naira fine or both for any person who uses hate speech to stir up ethnic, religious or racial hatred, social or political insecurity or violence against anyone or group of persons.

It also adopted the committee’s recommendation of 15 years imprisonment for any person involved in ballot box snatching, supplying voter’s card to persons without due authority, unauthorized printing of voters’ register, illegal printing of ballot paper or electoral document, and importation of any device or mechanism by which ballot paper or results of elections may be extracted, affected or manipulated, and voting at an election when he is not entitled to vote.

Also approved as recommended by the committee, is 10 years imprisonment for any person who sells voter’s card, or in possession of any voter’s card bearing the name of another person, or prepares and prints a document or paper purporting to be a register of voters or a voter’s card.

The Senate also gave its nod to a term of at least ten years upon conviction for any election official who wilfully prevents any person from voting at the polling station, wilfully rejects or refuses to count any ballot paper validly cast, wilfully counts any ballot paper not validly cast, gives false evidence or withholds evidence, and announces or declares a false result at an election.

The upper chamber, in Clause 20(2), approved at least fifteen years imprisonment for any judicial officer or officer of a court or tribunal who corruptly perverts electoral justice, during or after an election.

It also gave at least fifteen-year jail term or N30 million fine for any security personnel or election official engaged by the Independent National Electoral Commission or State Electoral Commission who attempts to influence the outcome of an election.

In addition, any person found to disturb the public peace on Election Day by playing musical instruments, singing or holding an assembly where a polling station is located shall be guilty of breaching electoral peace and liable to six months imprisonment or a fine of at least N100,000 or both.

Also, any person acting for himself or on behalf of any organization or political party or candidate or his agent with the intention of prejudicing the result of an election, damage or defame, in any manner, the character of any candidate in an election or his family member by making, saying, printing, airing or publishing in the print or electronic media false accusation on any matter shall be guilty of serious corrupt practice and liable on conviction to a term of at least ten years or a fine of ten million naira or both.

Any person soliciting or giving votes for or against any political party or candidate at an election, or found to affix campaign materials on any private house, public buildings or structures, or prints posters and banners without the name and address of the political party to which the candidate or person belongs contravenes sub-clause (1) to (5) and guilty of an offence and liable to at least five years or a fine of at least ten million naira, or both.

It provides a twenty years jail term without option of fine for any person who propagates information that undermines the independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, or unity of the federation.

Also, any candidate or agent who damages or snatches ballot boxes, ballot papers or election materials before, during and after an election without the permission of election official in charge of the polling station attracts at least twenty years imprisonment or a fine of at least forty million naira.

The Senate approved at least fifteen years imprisonment for any person who conveys voters to and from the poll; and three years imprisonment for any employee who directly or indirectly exerts undue influence on a voter in his employ.

The upper chamber approved three years and not more than five years imprisonment for any person who provide false information in any material particular to a public officer.

Source:
https://www.blueprint.ng/senate-passes-electoral-offences-commission-bill-okays-20-year-jail-term-for-ballot-snatchers/

Candidlady:
Fake news

Tell Us Everything You Know Please..

garfield1:
Gbam.it will favour people like uzodinma who write results from units

That is, only when the Electronic-Accreditation methods had failed as usual, sheey??

Kyase:
fact

You can’t challenge electoral results again
If you lose even by rigging just forget it

Exactly..
At least, let that Election Money be shared to the people - if that be the case....
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Rather than giving the bulk of the money to the High-ranked Electoral Officers, who now cut out chunks from the bulk and give to those ones that are assigned as field collation officers.
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Once a person got beaten, he goes back home and rest.

EMMY76:
Nice one this will now encourage me to go and register for my voter's card.

My Brother, Please Do..
Go And Register.

garfield1:
Inec has been using it since 2016.it is not immune from rigging,go to inec result portal.check bayelsa central and bayelsa west senate rerun and see the massive manipulations and mutilated results that were transmitted

The Results On The INEC Results Portal are photos of the Polling-units Results-Sheets, (that is, after they must have done all the Polling-units Manipulations).
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And to me sef, those results that were uploaded to the INEC’s Portal is not complete if they wouldn't also upload all the respective Collated Results-Sheets at the various Wards, LGAs, and so on., Including the Final Collation Sheets.
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And Finally, going by the judgement of the Atiku-Vs-Buhari Tribunal-Case (2019), which abolished the use of the SCR-accreditation, it then means that there is no need doing the SCR-accreditation again, since the Law doesn't recognise it.
Thus, the manipulations cannot be checked using Electronic-Transmssion if the SCR-accreditation would not be made the ONLY acceptable accreditation method.

Kingrefreshed:
If you watched Arise TV 4days ago you will not be jubilating here. The Bill was Edited and Alot of it's pages were replaced with alien Citations that is favourable Only to the Norths.

The lawyers/committee in charge were questioned as to why the bill was Edited and it's and what's before Senate was almost entirely a different bill and they all denied to acknowledge it's existence.

Hahahahahahahaha..
New Drama Unfolding..

garfield1:
It won't prevent rigging.politicians will simply write results from their units and transmit.moreover,it doesn't prevent manual collation

It Is Still “Work In Progress”.!!
So Relax.
When it is finally concluded, there won't be any other excuses left.

babajeje123:
I doubt if those praising the passing of the bill read well it's clause. Come 2023, NCC would say there's no network coverage in the north so result transmission would be manual, allowing for rigging while the south can transmit electronically. The odds are still against the south.

Aahahahahahahaaaahahahaaa..
Till Then My Brother.!!

Abedfff14:
do u know this bill does not only affect the presidential election, but also the govenorship, senate house of rep and state house of assembly elections, for the presidential election it will work against massive rigging in the north, for the senate and the rest elections it will work against this senators and law makers, before the eve of the election day, immediately election ends, all results and winners would have been known nation wide. there won't be avenue for rigging because the people will know the results electronically and confirm when they still count it openly manually, IF this bill is passed, even if apc rigged it at the presidential level, it will be hard at the rest levels, the senators are putting clauses coz it may affect them. as things stand majority of them won't make it because the populace , youth inclusive are going to contest for house of assembly elections, and electonic transmission will deter their old rigging methods. this will be a win for the populace, since this house members are majority of the nations problem. cheers.

This is it..

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People like Desmod Elliot came out to publicly declare that God-Fatherism secured his position..
(And Not The Good People Of His Constituency)
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Imagine Such Nonsense.!!

garfield1:
I am talking about reducing the perks of office and your here talking about electoral crimes.the salaries of political office holders should be placed at same level with civil servants and you will see that rigging will reduce and true leaders will emerge

I got you..
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But you see,, that would be extremely difficult, going with the current set-up of power-weilding in Nigeria.

garfield1:
Oga,when you say a lot of votes where cancelled in the south and approved in the north or that scr was used in the south and dumped in the north, it makes you look partisan and biased thereby rubbishing the cause you are projecting.card readers are hardly used in the rural areas whether south or not.all politicians all over Nigeria do the same thing.if you analyse northern votes,you will see a lot of cancellations in places like nasarawa,kaduna,kano,sokoto,taraba,kogi.the major place where votes where cancelled in the south in 2019 polls was rivers state.the media is biased against the north

I read a report on the 2019 General Elections. Inside the report, it showed the pattern of how the SCR worked.

garfield1:
That is why it can't work.the essence of democracy is to make sure everybody participates not to sideline some people

It is Democracy when the people have a say in the decision of the processes of Government that best suits them.
It is the Government's responsibility to make sure that the processes of Government that were chosen by the majority of the people are favourable to everyone. - Both the majority and minority.

garfield1:
The only way to stop or reduce rigging to the lowest level is to make politics unlucrative

The Senate Passed A Bill recently about Electoral Crimes and their punishments/penalties..
Maybe..
That too can be of great help.

Dododawa01:
They have to consider people staying in remote area where there is no network, how they want to transmit in that area electronically

Then, let them fight and have network naa..
That one too na INEC’s Fault ni??

Emyben:
What is the essence of our Electoral Commission being Independent again if they have to need an approval from the Senate to transmit election results by whatever medium they deem fit.

This is silly. No arm of government should be allowed to immerse and involve itself in the electoral activities of INEC.
INEC should be independent please!

My Brother..
You're Correct.
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That's the struggle.
And we will never rest until we get there.
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SCR-Screening should be the ONLY means/method of accreditation.
And Electronic-Transmssion should be the only means/method of transmission.
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NO OPTIONS.!!

garfield1:
It will even enable them to inflate more.that law does not stop rigging, it only transfer or changes the location of riggin from collation centres to polling units. politicians will now rig polling units by all means no more collation centres... Cc fergie001, kyase

That had been our fight.
You can imagine that in the last election, policemen were arresting people that were sharing money to the voters.
But they didn't arrest the hardened criminals that called themselves INEC-Staff at the Collation-Centres.

Nwaelohim:
The south always fool themselves, you think electronics transmission of results will increase your voters straight? People that don't vote ? How many has voter's card? For those rejoicing as victory against north, you know nothing about politics and voting process. Great news for Nigeria. Thank you PMB.

Let me answer your question.
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It will not increase the vote. No. Not At-all.
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But it will reduce the involvement of the INEC-staff who do the manipulations.
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And it will also reduce the time that the unannounced results would be hanging around. Thus, a highly reduced time that is available for the manipulators.

Kopite63119:
There is still a caveat of NCC confirming that there is nationwide coverage and senate approving....There ar going round in circles and it will still ultimately end up on their desk and as to whether they'd approve or not, your guess is as good as mine. These guys are just playing with the public's intelligence. Ultimately, there won't be electronic transmission.

You mean, they will approve it for some areas, and then, they would refuse to approve it for some other areas abii.??
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In that case, “We” will still get to that part later.
But for now, let us get the foundation right first.
Let us get them to start thinking properly first.

socialmediaman:
Does this require electronic transmission as the only means of transmission, or allows it as a means of transmission? If it’s not the only means of transmission, we’re back to square one where the presiding officer or whoever transmits the result to claim the machine isn’t working or they’re unable to correctly operate it, then go back to business as usual especially when they’ve been “rogered”

YOU HAVE A POINT THERE.!!

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That was how a lot of Polling-units were cancelled in the south, and the reason for cancellation was that the SCR didn't work.
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Yet, they bypassed the use of the SCR in the North, and allowed manual Accreditation in the whole of the North.
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They must look into it and make it the ONLY means of transmission.

Vickwinners:
Not yet uhuru...

Ain't ya'll noticed the clauses there?

Who controls the NCC and the Senate?

Without NCC and Senate's approval INEC can't use electronic transmission.

Same way the House of Reps are putting up clauses that'll make application still subject to political influence...

We still have a long way to go with the Bill... That's what Nigerians need to know.

That means,, we will never rest.
The Fight/Struggle Continues.

Clintonchiedzie:
Another transmission transmission

The Police Guy Was A Big Prophet.
He Prophesied This Thing Long Long Time Ago

garfield1:
Of wetin? Most rural areas dont have network

But them dey make calls and receive text messages??

Saao:
"Before INEC can transmit electronically, NCC must adjudge national coverage is adequate and secure, and National Assembly must approve."

Funny people

They are still afraid.

MansoryMX:
Watch how Miyatti, MUMURIC and Fulani Association will start laying threat around the nation because of this.

It is INEC’s Well-Trained Staff that will do the Electronic-Transmssion naa.
So, let the people come out en-masse and vote.
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There is no need crying about disenfranchisement here meehhn.
There only work is just to come out vote, which had always been their work naa..

drealcivilceno:
Does not change a thing.

Till then my brother..
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Till Then.