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Podcast: Africa Tech Radio
Episode: TTS - Do Elections in Nigeria Need More Tech or Not?
Description: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has applied a number of innovative approaches to improve the management and conduct of elections in the country.
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Results show that the introduction of these technologies: Electronic Voters Register(EVR), Automatic Fingerprints Identification System (AFIS) and Smart Card Reader (SCR) have reduced the incidence of multiple registration and multiple voting to the barest minimum while the development of e-collation support platform has drastically reduced incidence of result manipulation at collation centres.Â
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On Saturday, November 6, 2021, the people of Anambra state in the South East of Nigeria wen...