{"id":68654,"date":"2018-12-10T22:09:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=68654"},"modified":"2018-12-10T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:14:08","slug":"inec-announces-new-measure-to-check-vote-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=68654","title":{"rendered":"INEC announces new measure to check vote buying"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has introduced a new measure on ballot paper handling at polling units to check vote buying in the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, disclosed this at a public hearing on \u2018Vote Buying and Improving Electoral Processes in Nigeria\u2019 in Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n

Yakubu said in the 2019 polls, the ballot papers would be handed to voters rolled up before they proceed to the polling booths to cast their votes.<\/p>\n

He explained that the voters, in turn, must also roll up and flatten the ballot papers before leaving the polling booths to drop them in the ballot boxes.<\/p>\n

He said it would guard against the electorate displaying thump-printed ballot papers to agents of vote buyers at the polling units.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince 1999, we have had several confessional statements by many partisan actors on how an electoral process is subverted and voters and electoral personnel are induced.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey do this through food items, kitchen utensils, automobiles, electrical appliances, clothing toiletries, sandwich and so on.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy sandwich I am not talking about food. There is a way candidates induce voters using two slices of bread; sandwiched in between the two slices is a currency note,\u201d NAN quoted him as saying.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has introduced a new measure on ballot paper handling at polling units to check vote buying in the 2019 general elections. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, disclosed this at a public hearing on \u2018Vote Buying and Improving Electoral Processes in Nigeria\u2019 in Abuja on Monday. Yakubu said in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[48,4648],"class_list":["post-68654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-inec","tag-vote-buying"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}