Kaduna state has proven that elections can be safely conducted in Nigeria using electronic voting, as it did for the local government elections of May
It will be recalled that Kaduna state is the first government to use electronic voting in Nigeria and it is ready conduct the September local government election using Electronic Voting Machines.
The Deputy Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe made this remark during a stakeholders’ sensitisation programme organised by the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission .She stated that Kaduna State Government has made considerable investments in electronic voting, which it “considers a worthwhile deployment of technology towards ensuring that votes count and that the results reflect the actual preferences that the voters expressed.
The Deputy Governor commended KAD-SIECOM for its effort to make Kaduna state the pioneer in electronic voting. Dr Balarabe noted that the state government welcomes the electoral body’s decision to learn from the challenges encountered in 2018 by reconfiguring the electronic voting machines to integrate the card reader and ensuring that each voter’s card can only be used once.
The Deputy Governor reiterated that the Malam Nasir El-Rufai administration has demonstrated its commitment to a viable, democratically elected, and responsive local government system.
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