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Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by BluntCrazeMan: 5:46am On May 06, 2021

The best era of Electronic-Voting would be the time when we can vote remotely with our phones without physically having to go to the Polling-units..

And that is: starting with the scanning of the bar-codes on our Voter's Card with our phones, then do fingerprint identification and authentication with our phones, and then vote with our phones, and finally submit our votes online with our phones too..

Nevertheless, this wouldn't stop the manual voting methods at the Polling-units for the sake of those who might not have access to the use of high-end phones, but then, Accreditation and transmission of the results from these Polling-units must both be done electronically by the trained Election Officials.

With these methods properly put in place, the Nigerian Elections can have turnouts as high as 98%, because this would avail a lot of citizens the opportunity to vote from home.

(My Opinion Though...)
(So, what is your own opinion on this??)

#StayingAwayFromViolence#
#SafeAndSaneVoting

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by Xscape1993(m): 5:47am On May 06, 2021

I doubt if Nigeria has gotten to that stage ooo.

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by Mixedfruit: 5:49am On May 06, 2021

BluntCrazeMan:
The best era of Electronic-Voting would be the time when we can vote remotely with our phones without physically having to go to the Polling-units..
And that is: starting with the scanning of the bar-codes on our Voter's Card with our phones, then do fingerprint identification and authentication with our phones, and then vote with our phones too, and submit our votes online too with our phones..
That would be the only time that Nigerian Elections can have turnouts as high as 98%, because this method will avail a lot of citizens the opportunity to vote from home.

fulanis will not allow this

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by BluntCrazeMan: 5:49am On May 06, 2021

For those that would be saying that Hackers would hack the servers and change the results,,, I want to know why those hackers have not hacked the Banks servers all these while, or you think those hackers don't need money?
That means, it is only the votes (and maybe perhaps, only the Election Results) that they are interested in?? (as if it concerns them sef)
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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by BluntCrazeMan: 5:50am On May 06, 2021

Xscape1993:
I doubt if Nigeria has gotten to that stage ooo.

When then??
When will we ever get there??

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by BluntCrazeMan: 5:52am On May 06, 2021

Mixedfruit:
fulanis will not allow this

Honestly,, if that is the case, then I am very free to assume that their refusal to accept this kind of election tantamounts to mediocrity in its worst possible definitions.

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by Sammy07: 5:54am On May 06, 2021

BluntCrazeMan:
The best era of Electronic-Voting would be the time when we can vote remotely with our phones without physically having to go to the Polling-units..
And that is: starting with the scanning of the bar-codes on our Voter's Card with our phones, then do fingerprint identification and authentication with our phones, and then vote with our phones too, and submit our votes online too with our phones..
That would be the only time that Nigerian Elections can have turnouts as high as 98%, because this method will avail a lot of citizens the opportunity to vote from home.

BluntCrazeMan:
For those that would be saying that Hackers would hack the servers and change the results,,, I want to know why those hackers have not hacked the Banks servers all these while, or you think those hackers don't need money?
That means, it is only the votes (and maybe perhaps, only the Election Results) that they are interested in?? (as if it concerns them sef)

Lol, Oga this this Nigeria, know your country men.
It is very possible for some states results not to come out or make e hang (Because they belong to one party or the other).

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by Oxb90: 5:57am On May 06, 2021

Not possible in Nigeria.

Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by BluntCrazeMan: 5:57am On May 06, 2021

triple996:

Igbos will scam and highjack it

A mighty fool spotted shaa,, but no wahalla.

You think that such election would ever be based on a weak technology or what??

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by BluntCrazeMan: 6:02am On May 06, 2021

Sammy07:

Lol, Oga this this Nigeria, know your country men.
It is very possible for some states results not to come out or make e hang (Because they belong to one party or the other).

Anyways...
That only happens when immature politics is still being played our by the politicians involved.

Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by BluntCrazeMan: 6:06am On May 06, 2021

Oxb90:
Not possible in Nigeria.

Ok..
I so much believe in the strength of Nigeria.
And I know that it is very very possible.
It's just the immaturity of the current politicians and their lack of foresight that is doing us this whole evil.
These shortcomings are still keeping a lot of the Nigerian potentials in the oven, and we're seriously suffering as a result of this gross immaturity and lack-of-foresight.
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Here below is a little research I did on the INEC’s Smart Card Reader, which we all already know.
But we don't even know how really powerful that little piece of device/gadget is..
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RESEARCH TOPIC:

EXPLORING THE FULL POTENTIALS OF THE INEC’S SMART CARD READER....
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Long before now, the only function of the INEC’s Smart Card Reader (SCR) which was known to Nigerians was Just the “Accreditation” - And even at that, this “Accreditation” function was rejected at the Election Tribunals due to the fact that the Current Electoral Act didn't support the use of the SCR. The Current Electoral Act still recognises ONLY the manual “INEC-Register” methods of Accreditation.
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But Nevertheless, during the various off-cycle elections, and during the General Elections of 2019, the INEC was able to successfully test-run a lot of all the other of the “untapped functions” of the SCR such as:
1. Identification of the individual.

2. Authentication of the individual with respect to the Voter's Card which he/she presented at the Accreditation Stage.

3. Categorisation of the various Elections that might be taking place simultaneously and sorting the voters’ information appropriately according to the Elections which they are supposed to participate in

4. Actual Electronic Voting using the SCR itself.

5. Instant and simultaneous transmission of the results (as well as voters’ information) to all the necessary servers - either at the Wards, LGAs, States, etc - through a dedicated mobile wireless network configured specifically for the purpose. (Just the way the POS technology uses mobile wireless network to transmit and receive information).
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It is also possible for someone to vote in an election from a Polling-Unit that is not the one which he registered with, provided that the voter is still within the locality where his Voter's Card can vote in that particular Election in question.
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For Example, A Voter that registered in Anambra State can conveniently participate and vote in the Presidential Election if he is in Lagos State, but he cannot vote for Governorship or Senatorial Elections in Lagos State, since his source Polling-Unit in Anambra State cannot decide for localised elections within Lagos State.
During the Categorisation and sorting phases, the SCR can detect the Elections which the particular voter can participate in, and the ones which he cannot.
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The only things that it would require for all these full potentials of the SCR to be achieved is proper configurations (and upgrades) to the software of the SCR, and then, the amendment of the Electoral Act, and adequate logistics put in place.
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Currently..,, (and this is, assuming that INEC is waiting for the amendment of the Electoral Act, and all other variables remaining constant),
It is highly expected that once the Electoral Act is amended, the very first step towards the full-blown “Electronic Voting” would be to digitize the Accreditation/Identification process, as well as the transmission process. Thus, there won't be need for all those Manual Accreditation, and Manual Transmission Methods any longer.
It would also be fast and “manipulation-proof” too, since the Collation is happening Simultaneously at many servers across the various levels of the Election at different locations.
For example, if somebody tries to hack one (or two) of the servers, the person cannot hack all the other numerous servers that are working independent of those particular servers which he tried to hack.
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As time goes on, full electronic voting can then be introduced (that is, after series of test-running must have been successfully conducted).
And ultimately, as the Electronic Voting becomes fully functional, INEC can then decide to make it possible for someone to vote in elections from Polling-units that are not the ones they registered in, so far the SCR can specify the Accreditation/Voting processes as “off-unit” activities, and then collated adequately in the appropriate servers of the appropriate Wards or LGAs, and then, the information properly documented in the off-unit servers (where the actual election took place) so that there won't be misinformation or excess figures after the collation of the results.
(This particular process may seem too complicated and cumbersome, but that is just what it has to be... If INEC puts it in place and execute it properly, nobody would even notice how complicated or cumbersome it is).
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The Importance of Electronic Accreditation.

1. There won't be room for over-voting at the Polling-units any longer (even if the election officials deliberately allowed such) because, once the Polling Officer clicks the button for “End Of Election”, the SCR automatically transmits all the Voters’ Information to all the upper Levels of Collation-Servers, even before the vote-counting begins.

2. The Accreditation data can only be sourced/generated directly from the voters who came out to vote. It cannot be keyed-in manually. Therefore, the only information the SCR can transmit are those that were generated as the voting progressed, and not some sort of invented figures or manipulated figures.

3. If someone comes with another person's Voter's Card, the Identification and Authentication processes will fail.
And if such person proceeds to vote notwithstanding, it will definitely result to over-voting. (In this case, the work is now seriously on INEC to make sure that the SCR doesn't fail in the Identification and Authentication processes)
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The Importance of Electronic Transmission.

1. It eliminates all the possible errors that usually occur due to wrong additions, writing down the wrong figures, seeing figures wrongly due to tiny writings, seeing figures wrongly due to poor writings, omissions, and so on.

2. It eliminates delays that usually occur during the calling out of the figures for addition, the actual time wasted during the addition itself, the encountered-errors and the decision-making process that usually follows based on what to do with the encountered errors, time of transportation of the results from one level of collation to the higher level.

3. It enforces instant notification and publicity of the results as they come in. The results are no more shrouded in tight secrecy, and made visible only to the INEC officials and Party Agents that are strictly guarded at the collation centres. This time, the Virtual-Results-Portal becomes very active and gets constantly updated with the results from all the points of collation.

4. Information about all the cancelled Polling-units (including cancelled Wards and LGAs), as well as the reasons for such cancellations, would be clearly seen and be well appreciated and accepted by all the parties involved, and also by the viewing public.
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DISADVANTAGES.....

The Only disadvantage I see with all these is that:
The Politicians (judging from the amount of immaturity they show off currently) may feel so cheated with the new system, being that they no longer have a strong control over the outcome of the electoral system, and therefore they may decide to go to any length through violence, in order to make sure that they thwarted the elections. This may eventually lead to increased loss of lives and properties.
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But the good news is, the violence will only last a little while, and by then, the Politicians would be forced to become more mature and realise by themselves that “it is the people who vote to choose them that they should try their best to always satisfy, and not those that conduct the elections.
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**Meanwhile....
If there are any more Disadvantages (or Advantages) which I omitted in the write-up, then anyone is free to point them out, so that it can be added..

https://www.nairaland.com/6536074/research-exploring-full-potentials-inecs

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by tk4rd: 6:17am On May 06, 2021

I pray this comes to pass in Nigeria as soon as possible.
Lalasticlala, Seun

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by Difrent: 7:00am On May 06, 2021

BluntCrazeMan:
The best era of Electronic-Voting would be the time when we can vote remotely with our phones without physically having to go to the Polling-units..

And that is: starting with the scanning of the bar-codes on our Voter's Card with our phones, then do fingerprint identification and authentication with our phones, and then vote with our phones, and finally submit our votes online with our phones too..

That would be the only time that Nigerian Elections can have turnouts as high as 98%, because this method will avail a lot of citizens the opportunity to vote from home.

(My Opinion Though...)
(So, what is your own opinion on this??)

#StayingAwayFromViolence#
#SafeAndSaneVoting

But you will disenfranchise a while lot of people who won't have access to high end phones that will have biometric features . Because you can afford such a phone doesn't mean everyone can, that's why the world over governments provide gadgets in certain locations so people can go cast their votes.....and in some cases like US things like mail in ballots and early voting to make sure every eligible voter votes.,....most Americans still go to polling stations to vote ,......even at that thy don't have 98% turnout.
Besides voting is a civic duty, don't elevate it to home entertainment or a game on a phone encourage people to go out and vote, except if conditions don't allow.,.....with your proposal many people will just vote along party , religious and ethnic lines which will mean NO CHANGE so I don't buy the idea

Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by Oharina(m): 7:14am On May 06, 2021

Even the US go out en mass to vote, not to talk of backwarded Nigeria ruled by a dullard from a cursed tribe of the sahel..lol

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by Ttalk: 7:34am On May 06, 2021

Difrent:

But you will disenfranchise a while lot of people who won't have access to high end phones that will have biometric features . Because you can afford such a phone doesn't mean everyone can, that's why the world over governments provide gadgets in certain locations so people can go cast their votes.....and in some cases like US things like mail in ballots and early voting to make sure every eligible voter votes.,....most Americans still go to polling stations to vote ,......even at that thy don't have 98% turnout.
Besides voting is a civic duty, don't elevate it to home entertainment or a game on a phone encourage people to go out and vote, except if conditions don't allow.,.....with your proposal many people will just vote along party , religious and ethnic lines which will mean NO CHANGE so I don't buy the idea

Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by Ttalk: 7:40am On May 06, 2021

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Total condemnation of this proposal is akin to supporting the current bastardised electoral system.

There nothing wrong in using our phones to cast our votes.

What I think is important should be the flexibility in voting method whereby there's is option for casting of votes physically for those who don't have means of using phone

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by Ttalk: 7:42am On May 06, 2021

Total condemnation of this proposal is akin to supporting the current bastardised electoral system.

There nothing wrong in using our phones to cast our votes.

What I think is important should be the flexibility in voting method whereby there's is option for casting of votes physically for those who don't have means of using phone

Difrent:

But you will disenfranchise a while lot of people who won't have access to high end phones that will have biometric features . Because you can afford such a phone doesn't mean everyone can, that's why the world over governments provide gadgets in certain locations so people can go cast their votes.....and in some cases like US things like mail in ballots and early voting to make sure every eligible voter votes.,....most Americans still go to polling stations to vote ,......even at that thy don't have 98% turnout.
Besides voting is a civic duty, don't elevate it to home entertainment or a game on a phone encourage people to go out and vote, except if conditions don't allow.,.....with your proposal many people will just vote along party , religious and ethnic lines which will mean NO CHANGE so I don't buy the idea

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by slimprinze1(m): 7:45am On May 06, 2021

Nigeria have the ability to do that. But our leaders are not ready to do anything that won't favor them.

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by Nobody: 8:53am On May 06, 2021

A feasible plan but Nigeria only has about 42% population gaining access to the internet. Which is not enough.
What I will suggest is we should develop a system where you see the result so far after casting your vote. A perfect example is what is being done on twitter after voting in a poll.
#TruthOfTrinity

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by Nobody: 8:53am On May 06, 2021

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by SocialJustice: 8:54am On May 06, 2021

BluntCrazeMan:
The best era of Electronic-Voting would be the time when we can vote remotely with our phones without physically having to go to the Polling-units..

And that is: starting with the scanning of the bar-codes on our Voter's Card with our phones, then do fingerprint identification and authentication with our phones, and then vote with our phones, and finally submit our votes online with our phones too..

That would be the only time that Nigerian Elections can have turnouts as high as 98%, because this method will avail a lot of citizens the opportunity to vote from home.

(My Opinion Though...)
(So, what is your own opinion on this??)

#StayingAwayFromViolence#
#SafeAndSaneVoting

You will be shocked at the number of people who will need assistance voting and how easily the political class can manipulate the votes through agent inducement.

Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by BluntCrazeMan: 10:39am On May 06, 2021

Difrent:

But you will disenfranchise a while lot of people who won't have access to high end phones that will have biometric features . Because you can afford such a phone doesn't mean everyone can, that's why the world over governments provide gadgets in certain locations so people can go cast their votes.....and in some cases like US things like mail in ballots and early voting to make sure every eligible voter votes.,....most Americans still go to polling stations to vote ,......even at that thy don't have 98% turnout.
Besides voting is a civic duty, don't elevate it to home entertainment or a game on a phone encourage people to go out and vote, except if conditions don't allow.,.....with your proposal many people will just vote along party , religious and ethnic lines which will mean NO CHANGE so I don't buy the idea

The online voting through phones wouldn't stop the manual voting methods at the Polling-units. The manual voting methods would still be allowed for the sake of those who might not have access to the use of high-end phones. But then, the Accreditation and Transmission of the results from these Polling-units must both be done electronically by the properly trained Election Officials. - There are no strong Excuses for the avoidance of Electronic-Accreditation and Electronic-Transmssion. No matter how you put it.
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And again, the mail-in-ballot method is an example of remote-voting, which ultimately paves way for the online-voting - which also is an example of remote-voting.

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by BluntCrazeMan: 10:45am On May 06, 2021

Oharina:
Even the US go out en mass to vote, not to talk of backwarded Nigeria ruled by a dullard from a cursed tribe of the sahel..lol

So, do we just continue like this??
America as a country continues to Progress without looking back.
They just introduced mail-in-ballot system.
And they were receiving lots of reviews about it, so as to know which next direction they should advance to.
The mail-in-ballot method (as introduced by the US) is an example of remote-voting, which ultimately paves way for the online-voting - which also is another example of remote-voting.

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by BluntCrazeMan: 10:46am On May 06, 2021

Lalasticlala

Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by optionalY09: 10:47am On May 06, 2021

The only suitable thing in Nigeria now is disintegration

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by BluntCrazeMan: 10:47am On May 06, 2021

Ttalk:

Total condemnation of this proposal is akin to supporting the current bastardised electoral system.

There nothing wrong in using our phones to cast our votes.

What I think is important should be the flexibility in voting method whereby there's is option for casting of votes physically for those who don't have means of using phone

That is what it is exactly.!!

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by BluntCrazeMan: 10:47am On May 06, 2021

Ttalk:
Total condemnation of this proposal is akin to supporting the current bastardised electoral system.

There nothing wrong in using our phones to cast our votes.

What I think is important should be the flexibility in voting method whereby there's is option for casting of votes physically for those who don't have means of using phone

Very Correct.!!

Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by design108: 10:57am On May 06, 2021

it won't work.

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by Lipticaltech: 10:57am On May 06, 2021

Ok

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Re: Electronic-Voting: The Best Type Of Election Suitable For Nigeria And Nigerians by janedonez(m): 10:57am On May 06, 2021

Lol

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