NIGERIA'S 2015 ELECTIONS: Permanent voter's cards, smart card readers and security challenges.
| dc.contributor.author | Aremu, Fatai Ayinde | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aluko, Opeyemi Idowu | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-15T09:41:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-07-15T09:41:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.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 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/284 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | JOURNAL OF AFR1CAN ELECTiONS | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Vol. 15; | |
| dc.subject | election, democracy, permanent voter's card (PVC), card reader, urban violence, INEC | en_US |
| dc.title | NIGERIA'S 2015 ELECTIONS: Permanent voter's cards, smart card readers and security challenges. | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
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