{"id":17000,"date":"2018-01-17T17:42:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=17000"},"modified":"2018-01-17T17:42:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:42:54","slug":"breaking-finally-the-senate-has-passed-the-electoral-act-no-6-2010-amendment-bill-2017-into-law-card-reader-technology-to-be-fully-implemented-henceforth-house-of-reps-aspirants-to-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=17000","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING!  FINALLY- The Senate has passed the Electoral Act No. 6 2010 Amendment Bill 2017 into law.  &#8230;&#8230;Card Reader technology to be fully implemented henceforth &#8230;&#8230;House of Reps aspirants to pay N1,000,000.00 &#8230;&#8230;State Assembly aspirants to pay 500,000,00"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=17001\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hammer.jpg\" alt=\"hammer\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hammer.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hammer-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There shall now be full biometric accreditation of voters with Smart Card Readers and\/or other technological devices, as INEC may introduce for elections from time to time.<\/li>\n<li>Presiding Officers must now instantly transmit accreditation data and results from Polling Units to various collation centers. Presiding officer who contravene this shall be imprisoned for at least 5 years (no option of fine).<\/li>\n<li>All Presiding Officer must now first record accreditation data and polling results on INEC\u2019s prescribed forms before transmitting them. The data\/result recorded must be the same with what they transmitted.<\/li>\n<li>INEC now has unfettered powers to conduct elections by electronic voting.<\/li>\n<li>Besides manual registers, INEC is now mandated to keep Electronic registers of voters.<\/li>\n<li>INEC is now mandated to publish voters\u2019 registers on its official website(s) for public scrutiny at least 30 days before a general election and any INEC staff who is responsible for this but fails to act as prescribed shall be liable on conviction to 6 months\u2019 imprisonment.<\/li>\n<li>INEC is now mandated to keep a National Electronic Register of Election Results as a distinct database or repository of polling unit by polling unit results for all elections conducted by INEC.<\/li>\n<li>Collation of election result is now mainly electronic, as transmitted unit results will help to determine final results on real time basis.<\/li>\n<li>INEC is now mandated to record details of electoral materials \u2013 quantities, serial numbers used to conduct elections (for proper tracking).<\/li>\n<li>A political party whose candidate dies after commencement of an election and before the declaration of the result of that election now has a 14-day window to conduct a fresh primary election.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There shall now be full biometric accreditation of voters with Smart Card Readers and\/or other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17005,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000\/revisions\/17005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}