NIGERIA'S 2015 ELECTIONS: Permanent voter's cards, smart card readers and security challenges.
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Date
2016
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JOURNAL OF AFR1CAN ELECTiONS
Abstract
Voting time in any democracy always involves rigorous politicking. The
electioneering exercise in developed democracies tends to have less tension
in the polity than in many developing democracies which do witness some
hitches, mainly in issues of procedure and security. However, these problems
reduce with every subsequent election. Nigeria's 2015 general elections were
no exception to such improvements as there were innovations in the Anti
Electoral Fraud Procedures (AEFP). The research in this work questions the
extent to which the AEFP preventcd electoral malpractices ill Nigeria's 2015
general elections. It also assesses together. given the security tension in the
country, the ratio of actual voter turnout to registered voter speaks of peace
in the electoral process. The research 1I1ethodology adopted is an empirical
analysis of data from the Afrobaro171eter Round 6 survey assessing Nigeria11s'
perceptions of their electoral environment and of the level of preparedness of
the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC). INEC's officially released
presidential election result is also critically interrogated. The relative
deprivation theory is used to analyze the causes of security challenges. The
conclusion is premised 011 the grounds that there were general improvements
in the 2015 general elections and recommendations were posited to the
Election Management Body (EMB), the government and the genera! masses
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election, democracy, permanent voter's card (PVC), card reader, urban violence, INEC