{"id":245300,"date":"2015-01-21T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2015-why-we-introduced-card-readers-inec\/"},"modified":"2015-01-21T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T10:21:00","slug":"2015-why-we-introduced-card-readers-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/01\/21\/2015-why-we-introduced-card-readers-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"2015: Why We Introduced Card Readers \u2014 INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-268306\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0383card-reader.jpg\" alt=\"card reader\" width=\"400\" height=\"201\" \/>The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Tuesday said it introduced card readers for voters\u2019 accreditation in order to verify the rightful owners of Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Officer for Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara, Abdulganiyu Bello, stated this in Kosubosu at a meeting with stakeholders in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bello said the device would avert impersonation and voting by proxy during the general elections.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the electorate to cooperate with INEC officials in ensuring a hitch-free exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s target peaceful electioneering; I want to urge politicians not to cause any disruption because you believe a particular place is a stronghold of opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result in that place might be helpful in the eventual outcome\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bello also said the commission would ensure that no polling unit had more than 750 registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>He added that electoral process in all polling units would hold between 8.00a.m. and 3.00p.m. on election days.<\/p>\n<p>Participants at the meeting had urged INEC to ensure that accreditation begins in all units by 8.00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>They also appealed to the commission to be patient with voters who wish to clarify issues on election days.<\/p>\n<p>(NAN)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Tuesday said it introduced card readers for voters\u2019 accreditation in order to verify &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}