Elombah.com
18 Feb 2011
As the voters verification exercise winds up today, Nigerians have been speaking of the mistakes and problems discovered during the exercise. The problems ranges from fingerprints not captured, Many names missing, few fingerprints captured the gender of the prospective voter incorrectly inputted, and names incorrectly spelt. The 63.9 million people registered ahead of the presidential election in Africa's most populous nation should returned to their polling sites this week to search for their names against lists prepared by the country's Independent National Electoral Commission. The display allowed prospective Nigerian voters to inspect and make corrections to the list to be used for the general elections in April.
However, many of the roughly 120,000 sites remained empty in large cities and rural lands, blocking people from the one chance to verify they can vote. Officials repeatedly promise the election will be free and fair in a country where elections remain plagued by fraud.
In Southeastern state of Anambra, many names were not displayed, causing a resentment among the voters who alleged that the list had been manipulated by desperate politicians who wish to rig the elections.
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