Please I am at loss regarding the now popular claim that the INEC Smart Card Reader was used to Disenfranchise voters in the just concluded presidential and national assembly elections.

As a veteran INEC Adhoc staff, I have fist hand knowledge of the card reader, it's functions and purpose, but in no way does it disenfranchise genuine voters that truly belong to that particular poling unit.
Let me explain how it works. Each card reader is configured to carry out the following functions in successive order:
1. Scan the PVC tendered by the voter to determine it's authenticity. (This stage has been passed by all card readers at 99.999% times?). This means all authentic INEC issued PVCs are identified by the SCR. The hardcopy voters Register is also checked and the voters profile marked appropriately.

2. After passing (1) above, the SCR determine whether the PVC holder is supposed to vote at that particular PU. Some voters forget where they initially register and show up at the wrong PU to vote. In this case they are directed to the appropriate PU by kindly reminding them where they initially registered. The information of the actual registration unit is written on the PVC and also displayed on the SCR once the card is scanned.

3. After assurance that the PVC is authentic and that it belongs to that particular PU; then the process of verifying that the bearer is actually the owner of the PVC. Now NOTE this stage in most countries even US what is required is for the official to look at the face on the PVC to make sure it matches the bearer's.
3-a. Since the SCR has a biometric scanner and the voters ten (10) were captured during registration, but due to many errors this is where the SCR scored less than 30% success. Due to error during registration as all the 10 fingers may not have successfully captured, disfigurement of the fingers and above all the quality of the fingerprint scanner it self as it looks cheap, these and many more factors makes it a daunting task to successfully authenticate the voter. 7 out of 10 fail this stage.
3-b. Having the above problem in mind, INEC provided Incidence Forms that are meant to be filled for the voter and then cleared to vote if the Official is satisfied that the voter's face matches the picture in the Voter Register.
Whether the SCR has authenticated the fingerprint of the voter successfully or not, he/she must be allowed to vote! Only condition is that the Incidence form be filled.
Ironically the much talked about Electoral Amendment Bill the president refused to sign tried to abolish the use of the Incidence forms since INEC promised to make sure the fingerprint scan doesn't fail. But we all know that is not reliable, and the Incidence form use still remains part of the process.

So I wonder HOW the election is claimed to have been rigged.
Has any voter reported to their poling unit with their PVC and they are denied to cast their vote because the SCR failed to successfully verify their fingerprint?

The SCR records and sends the Total number of accredited voters; both those whose fingerprint have been successfully verified and those whose verification failed.
Total number of votes cast shall never exceed Total number of accredited voters (i.e those that passed fingerprint scan + those that failed).
In any situation where the total number of votes cast is greater than total accredited voters that particular PU results is automatically cancelled!

I was also an ad hoc staff during d 2015 election in bauchi I can tell u categorically Dat no card reader was used. Infact they wanted me to accredit every one which I resisted. I let dem thumb print over 90 percent of registered voters. During d vote count come and here d sound of A FI CEE SAI BABA. place like Abia would have at least over a million voters but the card reader was used to disenfranchise dem. Since u must be accredited. With d card readers. What is on ground now. D north will rule Nigeria for many years to come. Unless the south has a unity candidate. Even then the south must make sure that they they are not rigged out with voter card collection. Dbriggin started from the voter card collection. For example go to the igbo dominated areas and all u hear is Dat the card are not available or the inec officials just work for an hour and leave. The plan by the north and some of yoruba elements especially the Muslims ones.( I am also yoruba)has been well ocherstated to disenfranchise the south.

SimplePlan34:
I was also an ad hoc staff during d 2015 election in bauchi I can tell u categorically Dat no card reader was used. Infact they wanted me to accredit every one which I resisted. I let dem thumb print over 90 percent of registered voters. During d vote count come and here d sound of A FI CEE SAI BABA. place like Abia would have at least over a million voters but the card reader was used to disenfranchise dem. Since u must be accredited. With d card readers. What is on ground now. D north will rule Nigeria for many years to come. Unless the south has a unity candidate. Even then the south must make sure that they they are not rigged out with voter card collection. Dbriggin started from the voter card collection. For example go to the igbo dominated areas and all u hear is Dat the card are not available or the inec officials just work for an hour and leave. The plan by the north and some of yoruba elements especially the Muslims ones. ( I am also yoruba) has been well ocherstated to disenfranchise the south.

Who asked you if you're Yoruba or not? We know the usual people that always try to divide the Yoruba nation along religious line on this forum. Stop claiming what you are not.

SimplePlan34:
I was also an ad hoc staff during d 2015 election in bauchi I can tell u categorically Dat no card reader was used. Infact they wanted me to accredit every one which I resisted. I let dem thumb print over 90 percent of registered voters. During d vote count come and here d sound of A FI CEE SAI BABA. place like Abia would have at least over a million voters but the card reader was used to disenfranchise dem. Since u must be accredited. With d card readers. What is on ground now. D north will rule Nigeria for many years to come. Unless the south has a unity candidate. Even then the south must make sure that they they are not rigged out with voter card collection. Dbriggin started from the voter card collection. For example go to the igbo dominated areas and all u hear is Dat the card are not available or the inec officials just work for an hour and leave. The plan by the north and some of yoruba elements especially the Muslims ones.( I am also yoruba)has been well ocherstated to disenfranchise the south.

What you are trying to tell us are.
1. Your PU had over 90% voter turnout while the national average was 56.3% You may say you were threatened to participate in the malpractice but it's wrong to say that's how every is in the north. I participated as the Adhoc staff too and ONlY casted votes were counted and unused ballots were VOIDED by myself so no one could use them. And I participated in my state Jigawa state.

At the boldened, you have no proof whatsoever to show us that voters presented a valid PVC and we're denied the chance to cast their votes (which is what disenfranchisement means) because the SCR failed to scan their fingerprints. Nowhere that happened!
You can't ascribe low voter turnout to your phantom SCR disenfranchisement.

EazyMoh:

What you are trying to tell us are.
1. Your PU had over 90% voter turnout while the national average was 56.3% You may say you were threatened to participate in the malpractice but it's wrong to say that's how every is in the north. I participated as the Adhoc staff too and ONlY casted votes were counted and unused ballots were VOIDED by myself so no one could use them. And I participated in my state Jigawa state.

At the boldened, you have no proof whatsoever to show us that voters presented a valid PVC and we're denied the chance to cast their votes (which is what disenfranchisement means) because the SCR failed to scan their fingerprints. Nowhere that happened!
You can't ascribe low voter turnout to your phantom SCR disenfranchisement.

Oga, simply check national average voter turnout. The South averages 34 - 36%. Infact Lagos was a dismal 17% while wartorn Bornu and Yobe recorded over 50%. How plausible? Let us stop fooling ourselves in Nigeria. Until we start telling ourselves the truth, Nigeria will remain stagnant. For your informstion, Buhari and Atiku are both Northerners. Just wait till 2023 and see how the North will yèyè you guys.
If we want democracy, we should just ask people to vote and ensure same rule is applicable all over Nigeria. Anything outside that is simply a mirage. I pity those hinging their hope on 2023. If PDP presents a Northerner, they will still rig out the Southerner.

Despite the fact that buhari has broken all his campaign promises, failed the three key pillars the All Progressives Congress (APC) advertised in its mission statement security, fighting corruption &rebuilding the economy & has been unable to defend the abysmal record of his government, President Muhammadu Buhari wants to preside over Nigeria for another term of four years.

EazyMoh:

What you are trying to tell us are.
1. Your PU had over 90% voter turnout while the national average was 56.3% You may say you were threatened to participate in the malpractice but it's wrong to say that's how every is in the north. I participated as the Adhoc staff too and ONlY casted votes were counted and unused ballots were VOIDED by myself so no one could use them. And I participated in my state Jigawa state.

At the boldened, you have no proof whatsoever to show us that voters presented a valid PVC and we're denied the chance to cast their votes (which is what disenfranchisement means) because the SCR failed to scan their fingerprints. Nowhere that happened!
You can't ascribe low voter turnout to your phantom SCR disenfranchisement.

@OP, let me ask you this simple question. Suppose you registered at Ogba-Aguda, but on getting there you were told your PU is in Agege. What would you do? Trek to Agege or go home? Ok, you assume a lot of people forgot their PU. Why was that prevalence in a particular area?
What would you call that? Secondly how do you explain children voting? Who registered them?
How do you explain where accredited voters are different than total voted cast?
How do you explain the difference between NASS votes versus Presidential, when all voters were issued one each of Presidential, Senate and HOR ballot paper? How come Presidential far exceed the other two? Did you allow voters to go home with the ballots or did thry return them? If returned, did you account for them?
Please, stop supporting fraud!

Amitez:

Oga, simply check national average voter turnout. The South averages 34 - 36%. Infact Lagos was a dismal 17% while wartorn Bornu and Yobe recorded over 50%. How plausible? Let us stop fooling ourselves in Nigeria. Until we start telling ourselves the truth, Nigeria will remain stagnant. For your informstion, Buhari and Atiku are both Northerners. Just wait till 2023 and see how the North will yèyè you guys.
If we want democracy, we should just ask people to vote and ensure same rule is applicable all over Nigeria. Anything outside that is simply a mirage. I pity those hinging their hope on 2023. If PDP presents a Northerner, they will still rig out the Southerner.

I was at a polling unit during the Presidential election. Out of the 224 registered voters in that polling unit, only 48 of them came out to vote. When I approached the adhoc staff members in that polling unit to check the card reader, I discovered that the card reader authenticated about 27 out of the 48 people whose PVC's were read. I never left the polling unit and the guys in charge of the polling unit never sent anyone back apart from a woman and a girl who brought other people's PVC's to that polling unit. You can see that 48 of 224 is just 21.4% of the registered voters in that unit. What I'm saying in es sense is this, had it been I wasn't with those guys, there's no way I would have believed that only 21.4% of registered voters came out to vote in a polling unit. They don't deliberately disenfranchise anyone except you bring someone's else' PVC or a PVC meant for another polling unit.

Amitez:

@OP, let me ask you this simple question. Suppose you registered at Ogba-Aguda, but on getting there you were told your PU is in Agege. What would you do? Trek to Agege or go home? Ok, you assume a lot of people forgot their PU. Why was that prevalence in a particular area?
What would you call that? Secondly how do you explain children voting? Who registered them?
How do you explain where accredited voters are different than total voted cast?
How do you explain the difference between NASS votes versus Presidential, when all voters were issued one each of Presidential, Senate and HOR ballot paper? How come Presidential far exceed the other two? Did you allow voters to go home with the ballots or did thry return them? If returned, did you account for them?
Please, stop supporting fraud!

Point of correction, whatever an accredited voter chooses to do with his ballot paper is of no concern to the PO or the APO's. When they issue you the ballot papers to go vote, you can decide to take everything home without casting your vote, nobody would ask you.

Also, once you're accredited, you can tell the presiding officer in charge of that polling unit that you have an aged parent at home and decide to go home without voting. You'd be among the accredited voters but your vote would not be among the "total number of votes cast".

Like in Edo State, when you sum the results for APC and PDP in the three Senatorial districts you'll discover that the total number of votes cast for the Senate is higher than the total number of votes cast for the presidential ballot.

Besides, did the discrepancy just start this year? It happened in 2015, it happened last Saturday and it'd continue to happen.

EazyMoh:

What you are trying to tell us are.
1. Your PU had over 90% voter turnout while the national average was 56.3% You may say you were threatened to participate in the malpractice but it's wrong to say that's how every is in the north. I participated as the Adhoc staff too and ONlY casted votes were counted and unused ballots were VOIDED by myself so no one could use them. And I participated in my state Jigawa state.

At the boldened, you have no proof whatsoever to show us that voters presented a valid PVC and we're denied the chance to cast their votes (which is what disenfranchisement means) because the SCR failed to scan their fingerprints. Nowhere that happened!
You can't ascribe low voter turnout to your phantom SCR disenfranchisement.

I am telling u that ppl were not given a chance to vote any one. They wanted all the registered votes to vote so the wanted the total figure of registered voters. So they can thumb print d same number. If they had used the card readers many would not vote as women for example did not come out. So u see in d north actual voters are very close to registered voters. There was basically no accreditation.

SimplePlan34:


I am telling u that ppl were not given a chance to vote any one. They wanted all the registered votes to vote so the wanted the total figure of registered voters. So they can thumb print d same number. If they had used the card readers many would not vote as women for example did not come out. So u see in d north actual voters are very close to registered voters. There was basically no accreditation.

You giving your experience in ONE polling unit to generalize a whole region. Ask yourself are you really objective?

EazyMoh:

You giving your experience in ONE polling unit to generalize a whole region. Ask yourself are you really objective?

All corpers in my local govt experienced dsame thing in fact I was been laughed at for arguing with dem. Dat is how it was through out the whole north. So don't give me crap about been objective. We all know how it's done unless u have only carried out election in d south. Infact if they see vote PDP u would be mobbed.

Amitez:

@OP, let me ask you this simple question. Suppose you registered at Ogba-Aguda, but on getting there you were told your PU is in Agege. What would you do? Trek to Agege or go home? Ok, you assume a lot of people forgot their PU. Why was that prevalence in a particular area?
What would you call that? Secondly how do you explain children voting? Who registered them?
How do you explain where accredited voters are different than total voted cast?
How do you explain the difference between NASS votes versus Presidential, when all voters were issued one each of Presidential, Senate and HOR ballot paper? How come Presidential far exceed the other two? Did you allow voters to go home with the ballots or did thry return them? If returned, did you account for them?
Please, stop supporting fraud!

I never said MOST, I said SOME voters forget their polling unit. I brought that up because is the ONLY reason that a prospective voter would be categorically denied voting! And I witnessed those cases when I was the presiding officer.
You will never be allowed to vote at the wrong PU, no matter how far it is you have to go there if you really want to vote.
Bring proof where votes cast are more than accredited votes and the result of such PU was never cancelled.
Also bring proof that votes cast in a PU ward, LG senatorial zone or whereever were different between sum of votes of all the parties and void votes for presidential l, Senate and/or house of Representatives.You can start by posting this result from your zone and how they are different.
Most of you are just lazy and just concluded the election was rigged without any proof.

SimplePlan34:


All corpers in my local govt experienced dsame thing in fact I was been laughed at for arguing with dem. Dat is how it was through out the whole north. So don't give me crap about been objective. We all know how it's done unless u have only carried out election in d south. Infact if they see vote PDP u would be mobbed.

Ok can you tell us the local government Sir, let's check whether they recorded 90% voter turnout as you claimed.

Amitez:

Oga, simply check national average voter turnout. The South averages 34 - 36%. Infact Lagos was a dismal 17% while wartorn Bornu and Yobe recorded over 50%. How plausible? Let us stop fooling ourselves in Nigeria. Until we start telling ourselves the truth, Nigeria will remain stagnant. For your informstion, Buhari and Atiku are both Northerners. Just wait till 2023 and see how the North will yèyè you guys.
If we want democracy, we should just ask people to vote and ensure same rule is applicable all over Nigeria. Anything outside that is simply a mirage. I pity those hinging their hope on 2023. If PDP presents a Northerner, they will still rig out the Southerner.

So whose fault is the disparity in voter turnout?
Have you ever wondered whether people in the north just take going out to vote more seriously than those in the south whom find satisfaction in retweets, shares and likes?
Have you ever thought whether the "war torn" Borno are more concerned with a leader than can guarantee the improvement in their security situation that they had to do whatever it takes to make sure they made it to the POLLING UNITS and cast their votes?
All your emotional outbursts lack any tangible proof.

OP and others, you see all these people crying here because their preferred party lose out don't deserve your enlightenment over and over again.

Just ask them what happened in 2007 and 2011 where a Northerner lost out 2 times against the rigging PDP.
If they don't have a reasonable answer as usual, ignore them to wallow in their delusion for another 4 Years as they did in 2015.

EazyMoh:

Ok can you tell us the local government Sir, let's check whether they recorded 90% voter turnout as you claimed.

How would u check dat

SimplePlan34:

How would u check dat

Hehehehe you dey fear? Na information age we dey now. Even your so called PU I can find it. Just tell us the local government let's start from there.

EazyMoh:

Hehehehe you dey fear? Na information age we dey now. Even your so called PU I can find it. Just tell us the local government let's start from there.

And u think I would do Dat. If u can drop ur source of information I will Def tell u.

SimplePlan34:


And u think I would do Dat. If u can drop ur source of information I will Def tell u.

It's unfortunate the result is no longer available on INEC website, but you can find it all over the internet.
http://www.iri.org/2015%20Nigeria%20Election%20Observation%20Report/1/assets/basic-html/page17.html

As you can see from the above data sheet of 2015 elections Rivers has a ridiculous 71% voter turnout followed by Delta 66, Akwa Ibom 65 and Bayelsa 64 while the national average was 43%.
The Bauchi state you mentioned had 53%
So for you to claim more than 90% votes cast which will in turn indicate 90% voter turnout is a big fat lie!

EazyMoh:

It's unfortunate the result is no longer available on INEC website, but you can find it all over the internet.
http://www.iri.org/2015%20Nigeria%20Election%20Observation%20Report/1/assets/basic-html/page17.html

Jama'are

Op and co. Please, let Atiku challenge the results in court. At least Buhari did same 3 times he lost. Kindly prevail on APC to allow PDP go to court. All this arguement will not do anything. Let Supreme Court look at the evidences. At least both candidates will accept yhe verdict

Amitez:
Op and co. Please, let Atiku challenge the results in court. At least Buhari did same 3 times he lost. Kindly prevail on APC to allow PDP go to court. All this arguement will not do anything. Let Supreme Court look at the evidences. At least both candidates will accept yhe verdict

You think the court judgment wouldn't be challenged? Does these people look like those that work with facts?

donphiilopus:


Who asked you if you're Yoruba or not? We know the usual people that always try to divide the Yoruba nation along religious line on this forum. Stop claiming what you are not.

The guilty are always restless when truth is proclaimed..

@ op leave that story

We all know the magic behind the disappearance of meat in the mouth..

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EazyMoh:
Please I am at loss regarding the now popular claim that the INEC Smart Card Reader was used to Disenfranchise voters in the just concluded presidential and national assembly elections.

As a veteran INEC Adhoc staff, I have fist hand knowledge of the card reader, it's functions and purpose, but in no way does it disenfranchise genuine voters that truly belong to that particular poling unit.
Let me explain how it works. Each card reader is configured to carry out the following functions in successive order:
1. Scan the PVC tendered by the voter to determine it's authenticity. (This stage has been passed by all card readers at 99.999% times?). This means all authentic INEC issued PVCs are identified by the SCR. The hardcopy voters Register is also checked and the voters profile marked appropriately.

2. After passing (1) above, the SCR determine whether the PVC holder is supposed to vote at that particular PU. Some voters forget where they initially register and show up at the wrong PU to vote. In this case they are directed to the appropriate PU by kindly reminding them where they initially registered. The information of the actual registration unit is written on the PVC and also displayed on the SCR once the card is scanned.

3. After assurance that the PVC is authentic and that it belongs to that particular PU; then the process of verifying that the bearer is actually the owner of the PVC. Now NOTE this stage in most countries even US what is required is for the official to look at the face on the PVC to make sure it matches the bearer's.
3-a. Since the SCR has a biometric scanner and the voters ten (10) were captured during registration, but due to many errors this is where the SCR scored less than 30% success. Due to error during registration as all the 10 fingers may not have successfully captured, disfigurement of the fingers and above all the quality of the fingerprint scanner it self as it looks cheap, these and many more factors makes it a daunting task to successfully authenticate the voter. 7 out of 10 fail this stage.
3-b. Having the above problem in mind, INEC provided Incidence Forms that are meant to be filled for the voter and then cleared to vote if the Official is satisfied that the voter's face matches the picture in the Voter Register.
Whether the SCR has authenticated the fingerprint of the voter successfully or not, he/she must be allowed to vote! Only condition is that the Incidence form be filled.
Ironically the much talked about Electoral Amendment Bill the president refused to sign tried to abolish the use of the Incidence forms since INEC promised to make sure the fingerprint scan doesn't fail. But we all know that is not reliable, and the Incidence form use still remains part of the process.

So I wonder HOW the election is claimed to have been rigged.
Has any voter reported to their poling unit with their PVC and they are denied to cast their vote because the SCR failed to successfully verify their fingerprint?

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