Voter registration in Nigeria
Registering people at nearly 120,000 polling places in two weeks is a pretty tall order. The electoral commission is likely to extend the registration period, especially since suppliers have not delivered all the computers necessary to record the fingerprints and photographs required by the process.INEC to Extend Registration Deadline
Following the challenges that have dogged the ongoing registration of voters, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to extend the time for the exercise if registrable Nigerians are not captured before the end of the month.
This is even as 2, 273 polling units across the country are yet to commence registration of voters due to the inability of the commission to distribute Direct Data Capture (DDC) Machines…
Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega… confirmed that… at the beginning of the exercise on January 15, only 110,000 DDC machines were deployed because out of the 132,000 ordered by the commission only 110,000 had been supplied.
He said there have been significant improvement in the speed of per capita registration in the last few days, as according to him, adjustments had been made to the fingerprint scanners, which he said were initially set at a high sensitive aperture, specifically meant for forensic analysis in criminal investigation, and was slowing the process down due to multiple rejections, but that such was not necessary for voter registration…
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posted by Ken Wedding @ 11:04 AM
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