No Electronic Transmission: Electoral Act Amendment Bill still provides for election results to be transported by human movements

The Nation­al Assembly seems set to go against the popular expectations for electronic voting in Nigeria and has jetti­soned the idea on the basis that  Nigeria isn’t ripe for such.

The Electoral Act amendment bill which is expected to be laid before the two chambers of the National assem­bly on Tuesday in  Section 50 (2) said that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, may include electronic voting "PROVIDED that the Com­mission shall not transmit results of elections by elec­tronic means.” This makes electronic voting only optional and election results must continue to be transported by human movements from polling units to collation centres.

The Amendment will also allow sepa­ration of male voters from female ones in any queue in areas where it is the culture.

And benchmarks for election donations and expenses by both political parties and individuals have also been introduced: 

a presidential can­didate is to spend maximum of N15Billion while a gov­ernorship candidate is to spend N5billion only.

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