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Nigerian Election and the E- voting toy machine
November 1, 2006 - 06:14 AM
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As we apprach another Election Year,a lot has been said and plans are being concluded by the Nigerian governmnet to introduce the E- voting scheme. It had worked in a couple of countries but the questions is will it work in Nigeria?
I live in a community and up till now i have not seen any registeration centre.
The other day I watched happlessly as the E voting machines refude to work due to NEPA or is it PHLC inefficiency.
II observe with dismay that it may be a calculated way to rigg the election once again.Nigerians should reject this in totality.
There are lots of Information Technologists in The country and i say its not going to work here in Nigeria
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Re: Nigerian Election and the E- voting toy machine
November 1, 2006 - 06:52 AM
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India is abig country with 1 billion population and many parts of India(most backward states like UP and bihar)see poll violence and rigged elections.so e-voting machines were introduce dnad the incidents of poll violence ,poll booth capturing have come down. with machines identity cards have been issued and only those with valid i cards can cast their votes and a vote cant be cast twice. popultion in UP and bihar is uneducated. India donated e-machines to Afgansitan and monitored elections.elections in afganistan recorded low violence and few incidenst of rigging.
however with such machines all indian political parties launched programmes along with their elction rallies to eduacte masses about using the machines and use them.Besides election commison also spread awareness about it.
hope it also works in nigeria.
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MOHAMMED ALIYU PAIKO
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Re: Nigerian Election and the E- voting toy machine
November 1, 2006 - 07:16 AM
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The thread in this discussion is lost. Any how, I seem to agree with you that probably, yes just probably, Nigeria is not ready for e-voting yet. As to the decision to use the Direct Data Capture (DDC), it is also clear from the way the INEC is conducting the registration excercise that the decision was taken hastily without adequate preparation. If not, how can one explain the lack lustre maner in which the registration excercise is progressing (?). No adequate number of the machine, some that are in use are faulty, promises that more machines would be provided are yet to be kept and the dates fixed for the 2007 general elections are fast approaching!
Certainly, the manner of INEC's conducts in the recent past give a lot of room for some of us to suspect a hidden agenda, and even though one is not a pessimist, one would certainly be right to join the growing crowd of doubting thomases.
However, its early days yet. December (the deadline for registration) is still 2months away and the registration excercise is progressing even though amidst turbulence and not as it was planned to be. I would urge us to be a bit more patient. We are always in the hasty habit of " throwing away the baby with the bath water" even when it is clear that we shouldnt. We are found of criticisms and not offering alternatives.
The way I see it, we are not too much in a danger of total helplessness, afterall we still have the old register of voter.
If by November 30th INEC can still not boast of achieving 60-80% of target using the DDC, we could still advice them to send the recruited personnel to the registration venues and capture the information of those whose names are not on the old register, which would not be more than 15-20% what is already in the old register and would not take more than a week, going by the old registration procedure. Or we could advise then to revert to the old system entirely, covering the excercise in 10days maximum as it was the case in 1998.
Let us always be receptive to new innovations with an open heart and only criticise constructively offering alternatives. We should adopt an attitude of outright condemnation only when we have the TOTAL assuarance that it has failed. For now, we cannot be too sure.
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Oluwakorede Asuni
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Re: Nigerian Election and the E- voting toy machine
November 1, 2006 - 02:13 PM
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hi, INEC do not seem to me to be serious.
it is clear, especially with the failing voters registeration exercise that e voting in Nigeria come 2007 will be a big joke.
let somebody ask the INEC leadership why they had to import those machines?when Dr, G M M Obi displayed one that will suitably fit the Nigerian sitution.
from a patriotic stand point, i will suggest INEC drop the e voting idea till a time when she will be actually able to confidently deploy them.
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