Finally, Nigerian Senate Amends Electoral Act To Legalise Electronic Voting

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This is another inch close to conducting a free and fair election. 
The Nigerian senate today amended the Electoral Act to enable the use of electronic voting system in the conduct of elections  in the country.


 The amendment followed the adoption of the report of the alteration of the existing electoral law, Electoral Act 2010, by of the Senate committee on INEC, and subsequently, the passage of the amendment bill for third reading.

 The report on the amendment was presented by Abubakar Kyari, APC-Borno, who stood in for the chairman of the INEC committee, Ali Ndume, APC-Borno, who is on a six-month suspension.

 Mr. Kyari, now chairman of the defence committee, is the former chairman of the INEC committee who led most of the work on the amendment process before he was replaced by Mr. Ndume in February.

 It took long deliberation before the report was adopted for third reading.

 “We have introduced electronic voting through any technology INEC deems fit,” said Mr. Kyari, speaking after the bill scaled through.

 The Senate also legalized the use smart card reader and “any technological device” for accreditation.
 Voting

 Card reader was deployed for 2015 general elections, but the Supreme Court, in its rulings on Delta, Rivers and Akwa Ibom State governorship elections, faulted the use.


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