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2007: E-Voting Or E-Rigging?
February 28, 2006
Posted to the web March 1, 2006
Lagos.....Against the backdrop that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) could not even keep an up-to-date website, its insitence on going ahead with the e-voting system in 2007 general elections has increased the peoples apprehension on the motive. Sheriff Balogun reports...

However, when the Senate arrived at the sections, the Senate Committee on Special Duties chairman, Senator Sule Yari Gandi (ANPP, Sokoto) observed that the Senate had set aside the provisions because "they are delicate, dangerous and portending the capacity to disenfranchise many Nigerians."
According to him, the complexities of e-voting cannot be entertained in the electoral system before the next general elections, adding that the system is also fraught with rigging procedures. He argued that: "In the open ballot election, you will require the cooperation of at least 30 persons to rig election but in the e-voting system, you don't need more than one person to rig elections".

"Why then should we embark on electronic voting in the nation without sitting down to recall what it takes to operate voting through electronic voting system? We are in a democratic society, where free and fair election should be the endless song of the nation. There is no assurance of accurate recording of the votes through the electronic voting machine. Why should we be deceiving ourselves in the name of electronic voting? The machine does not work".