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INEC Statement On Card Reader Demonstration

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday, 09th March 2015, met to consider field reports from the public demonstration of Smart Card Readers (SCRs) conducted in 12 states on Saturday, March 07th 2015. The states were Rivers and Delta (South-South), Kano and Kebbi (North-West), Anambra and Ebonyi (South East), Ekiti and Lagos (South West), Bauchi and Taraba (North East) as well as Niger and Nasarawa (North Central).

The Commission observed that its decision to deploy SCRs for the 2015 general elections have FOUR main objectives, namely:

(i) To verify Permanent Voter cards (PVCs) presented by voters at polling units and ensure that they are genuine, INEC-issued (not cloned) cards. From the reports on Saturday’s exercise, this objective was achieved 100 per cent.

(ii) To biometrically authenticate the person who presents a PVC at the polling unit and ensure that he/she is the legitimate holder of the card. In this regard, there were a few issues in some states during the public demonstration. Overall, 59% of voters who turned out for the demonstration had their fingerprints successfully authenticated. But the Commission, in agreement with registered political parties, had provided in the approved Guidelines for the conduct of the 2015 elections that where biometric authentication of a legitimate holder of a genuine PVC becomes challenging, there could be physical authentication of the person and completion of an Incident Form, to allow the person to vote.

(iii) The SCRs provide disaggregated data of accredited voters in male/female and elderly/youth categories – a disaggregation that is vital for research and planning purposes, but which INEC until now had been unable to achieve. The demonstration on Saturday fully served this objective.

(iv) The Smart Card Reader sends the data of all accredited voters to INEC’s central server, equipping the Commission to be able to audit figures subsequently filed by polling officials at the PU and, thereby, be able to determine if fraudulent alterations were made. The public demonstration also succeeded wholly in this regard.

The Commission nevertheless took a serious view of the high rate of the SCRs’ failure to authenticate voters’ fingerprints in some areas, particularly in Ebonyi State, and has decided to thoroughly investigate the cause; as well as repeat the public demonstration in that state. This demonstration will be conducted in the particular Registration Area involved in the last exercise, namely Izzi Unuhu (Abakaliki Local Government Area); as well as in Ibii/Oziza Registration Area (Afikpo North LGA). The repeat demonstration will be on Saturday, March 14th2015.

INEC is satisfied that the use of SCRs in the 2015 general elections will add tremendous transparency and credibility to the accreditation process on Election Day. The Commission hereby reassures the public that it will do everything necessary to ensure that the processes of the elections are seamless, free, fair, credible and peaceful.



Kayode Robert Idowu

Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman

10th March 2015.

Source: https://inecnigeria.org/news-all/inec-statement-on-card-reader-demonstration/

(iv) The Smart Card Reader sends the data of all accredited voters to INEC’s central server, equipping the Commission to be able to audit figures subsequently filed by polling officials at the PU and, thereby, be able to determine if fraudulent alterations were made. The public demonstration also succeeded wholly in this regard.

The same INEC claiming that they don’t have a server today

Rednaxelot:
The same INEC claiming that they don’t have a server today

It is a question of time just watch out as events unfold. One thing is certain, Buhari will not serve out 4 years this time around.

INEC should please be really independent

tomakint:
It is a question of time just watch out as events unfold. One thing is certain, Buhari will not serve out 4 years this time around.

Oh stop this...this chest beating is what I hate about you people. You talk as if the President too does not have his qualified Lawyers defending him.

The earlier you guys accept that there's no strength in this Atiku petition the better.

tomakint:
It is a question of time just watch out as events unfold. One thing is certain, Buhari will not serve out 4 years this time around.

Much as I did not support suffering in the next 4 years, I see little or no chance of escape as INEC had already sold Nigeria into slavery.

Rednaxelot:
The same INEC claiming that they don’t have a server today

There is a server for accredited voters but there is no server for election results. PDP demanded for access to INEC results server and nothing like that exist. The card readers transmit details of accredited voters and not election results.

tomakint:
It is a question of time just watch out as events unfold. One thing is certain, Buhari will not serve out 4 years this time around.

Ameeeeeen!

seunmsg:
There is a server for accredited voters but there is no server for election results. PDP demanded for access to INEC results server and nothing like that exist. The card readers transmit details of accredited voters and not election results.

Whatever gratification u are getting from your paymasters is not worth this display of ignorance and trying to be clever by half,if they have a server for accredited voters then they will for sure have a result server,it about the same thing as going to a cybercafe and u are been told they have internet but it cant open nairaland,if they wanted the result which is the motive of the election then its just a click away,if u think an election result for any country in the world would be done manually in this 21st century i think u need to go back to school and stay there for a very long time.

neyobills:
Whatever gratification u are getting from your paymasters is not worth this display of ignorance and trying to be clever by half,if they have a server for accredited voters then they will for sure have a result server,it about the same thing as going to a cybercafe and u are been told they have internet but it cant open nairaland,if they wanted the result which is the motive of the election then its just a click away,if u think an election result for any country in the world would be done manually in this 21st century i think u need to go back to school and stay there for a very long time.

Why do you want to develop High BP? Bros, Atiku is not coming. APC lost in Akwa and Rivers. They made peace with themselves that they have to try another time.

PDP lost the presidential and are still dreaming? APC won the presidential, won the senate and house of rep. It's time for real governance, not the type that had PDP constituting a clog in the wheel of governance in the person of Saraki

Nigeria my country..


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rottennaija:
Why do you want to develop High BP? Bros, Atiku is not coming. APC lost in Akwa and Rivers. They made peace with themselves that they have to try another time.

PDP lost the presidential and are still dreaming? APC won the presidential, won the senate and house of rep. It's time for real governance, not the type that had PDP constituting a cog in the wheel of governance in the person of Saraki

Who cares about PDP or APC however institutious must be protected from abuse,if they want to do abracadabra at least they should come up with something reasonable enough not outright denial of having a server which is indeed laughable for an electoral body in this 21st century.

neyobills:
Whatever gratification u are getting from your paymasters is not worth this display of ignorance and trying to be clever by half,[b]if they have a server for accredited voters then they will for sure have a result server,[/b]it about the same thing as going to a cybercafe and u are been told they have internet but it cant open nairaland,if they wanted the result which is the motive of the election then its just a click away,if u think an election result for any country in the world would be done manually in this 21st century i think u need to go back to school and stay there for a very long time.

Well, they just told you and Atiku that they don’t have have one. Beside, if there is a result database, it would be populated with figures from collation centers and not fraudulent figures that only Atiku had access to.

seunmsg:
Well, they just told you and Atiku that they don’t have have one. Beside, if there is a result database, it would be populated with figures from collation centers and not fraudulent figures that only Atiku had access to.

Well do not forget that the internet never forgets and nothing is really hidden in the I.T world,white hat hackers will have a field day proving INEC wrong with evidence if push comes to shove.

neyobills:
Whatever gratification u are getting from your paymasters is not worth this display of ignorance and trying to be clever by half,if they have a server for accredited voters then they will for sure have a result server,it about the same thing as going to a cybercafe and u are been told they have internet but it cant open nairaland,if they wanted the result which is the motive of the election then its just a click away,if u think an election result for any country in the world would be done manually in this 21st century i think u need to go back to school and stay there for a very long time.

I worked as a presiding officer in 2015 and I can tell u as of then there was no server for election results. The only server linked to the card reader is the one where number of voters accredited through the card reader is stored.

I dont know if status quo has changed now, but card readers are not used for voting but just accreditation alone. Voting is done manually and votes once counted are recorded on the result sheet. How PDP came up with this server issue I dont really know

neyobills:
Well do not forget that the internet never forgets and nothing is really hidden in the I.T world,white hat hackers will have a field day proving INEC wrong with evidence if push comes to shove.

Good. Get your white hat hackers for cross examination in court. Best of luck to them.

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seunmsg:
There is a server for accredited voters but there is no server for election results. PDP demanded for access to INEC results server and nothing like that exist. The card readers transmit details of accredited voters and not election results.

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seunmsg:
Well, they just told you and Atiku that they don’t have have one. Beside, if there is a result database, it would be populated with figures from collation centers and not fraudulent figures that only Atiku had access to.

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INEC spent 220million naira upgrading their server

APC spokesperson claimed that Atiku with the help of phantom Russian hackers was planning to hack same server

GenSpecifics:




INEC spent 220million naira upgrading their server

APC spokesperson claimed that Atiku with the help of phantom Russian hackers was planning to hack same server

Comrade ignore those Buharideens they are not wired to listen to voice of reason. Check the pic below and ignore there "no server and e-collation" empty defense

seunmsg:
There is a server for accredited voters but there is no server for election results. PDP demanded for access to INEC results server and nothing like that exist. The card readers transmit details of accredited voters and not election results.

The server is supposed to collate not only votes but accredited voters to check rigging


Buhari does not want the INEC server data related as it will show huge disparities in actual accredited voters against that claimed to have been collated.

This is where Atiku has a huge challenge as the northern politicians from across party lines plus Amirs do not want this information exposed as it will put to end the useless notion of Northern population superiority.