Friday, July 12, 2013
2015 elections: INEC to test-run permanent voters’ card
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to test run the use of permanent voters card (PVC) to be introduced for the 2015 elections. Professor Attahiru Jega, INEC Chairman who stated this yesterday in a paper he presented at the Nigeria civil society situation room meeting on the state of thenation organised by Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), which took place in Abuja said already 20 million PVCs havebeen delivered. He said the remaining would be delivered by mid 2014 so as to develop a distributionplan for the cards to ensure that registrants get their cards on time. He said that the PVC, which is a machine-readable card, will be given to each registered voter and will be read on presentation to INEC officials by card readers at each polling unit. Each card according to him has information unique only to a specific voterand voters will be required to authenticatetheir information by scanning their fingerprints on the card reader. The benefits of the PVC, the INEC boss saidincludes the fact that it is easily electronically verifiable using networked smartcard readers that will be deployed toeach polling unit (PU), can notify voters when accreditation starts, would enable total number of people accredited at a PU to be known and vote collation as well as equipment and material checklists would be available.http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/politics/58803-2015-elections-inec-to-test-run-permanent-voters-card
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