Monday, February 23, 2015
Here is how the contentious INEC card reader works...
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At a polling centre there shall be a presiding officer and between two and three assistant presiding officers appointed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) depending on the number of registered voters at the centre.
The presiding officer shall delegate responsibilities to the assistant presiding officers and shall be the final authority at the voting unit.
With the introduction of the Card Reader machine, once a voter approaches the polling centre, one of the officials will search the voters register to locate the person's name and picture.
Once that is done, the other officer will collect the Permanent Voter Card (PVC) of the person and slide it on the Card Reader so as to read the bio-data of the bearer.
The Card Reader has a number of roles; it certifies the authenticity or otherwise of a PVC. It also tallies the number of the PVCs it has recorded and forwards same to a central server thereby eliminating the incident of ballot stuffing that was prevalent with the use of ordinary Voter Cards.
If the PVC is genuine, the card reader will accept it and then the owner will place his thumb on the machine to also ascertain that it truly belongs to the person who brought it, thereby eliminating the incident of vote buying, multiple voting or voting by proxy.
This step eliminates the use of PVCs stolen or purchased by some politicians as it renders them useless, the only advantage for those buying the cards being that it may suppress the votes of those who ordinarily the real owners of the PVCs would have voted for.
When it is certified that the card is genuine and truly belongs to the person who brought it, it will pop up and announce to the hearing of party agents at the polling centre.
The job of the card reader is in effect, to accredit voters, what it means is that during the actual voting, only those that were duly accredited will have the opportunity of voting. The issue of manipulating the process is drastically reduced because at a polling centre, there will be apart from the INEC staff, the agents of the contesting political parties, the observers both local and international as well as the media.
The presiding officer shall delegate responsibilities to the assistant presiding officers and shall be the final authority at the voting unit.
With the introduction of the Card Reader machine, once a voter approaches the polling centre, one of the officials will search the voters register to locate the person's name and picture.
Once that is done, the other officer will collect the Permanent Voter Card (PVC) of the person and slide it on the Card Reader so as to read the bio-data of the bearer.
The Card Reader has a number of roles; it certifies the authenticity or otherwise of a PVC. It also tallies the number of the PVCs it has recorded and forwards same to a central server thereby eliminating the incident of ballot stuffing that was prevalent with the use of ordinary Voter Cards.
If the PVC is genuine, the card reader will accept it and then the owner will place his thumb on the machine to also ascertain that it truly belongs to the person who brought it, thereby eliminating the incident of vote buying, multiple voting or voting by proxy.
This step eliminates the use of PVCs stolen or purchased by some politicians as it renders them useless, the only advantage for those buying the cards being that it may suppress the votes of those who ordinarily the real owners of the PVCs would have voted for.
When it is certified that the card is genuine and truly belongs to the person who brought it, it will pop up and announce to the hearing of party agents at the polling centre.
The job of the card reader is in effect, to accredit voters, what it means is that during the actual voting, only those that were duly accredited will have the opportunity of voting. The issue of manipulating the process is drastically reduced because at a polling centre, there will be apart from the INEC staff, the agents of the contesting political parties, the observers both local and international as well as the media.
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