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Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by Nobody: 6:08pm On Jul 19, 2018
bjayx:
A lot of folks v more than two lines while below 18 also do.

This can be checked by inputing their PVC no.
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by Noblewhiz(m): 6:11pm On Jul 19, 2018
Eggcelent:
Good Idea.

However, It Has Its Downsides

1. Not All Adults Own Phones;

2. Some Who Own Phones Didn't Register Inserted SIMs In Their Names;

3. If This Is Implemented, Phone Theft Is Likely To Increase Couple Of Days To Election;

4. In Event Of Need To Recount Votes, How Will We Go About It;

5. Finally, It Doesn't Really Stop Vote Buying. All A Political Party Needs To Do Is Send Town Criers To Each Ward Announcing That It Has Freebies For Willing Electorates At A Particular Venue On Day Of Election And All You Need To Get The Freebies Is To Come With Your Phone.

Simply Stated, It's A Good Idea. However, It Needs More Critical Thinking If It Will Work

You've made a point man
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by iyandaoluwaoba: 6:11pm On Jul 19, 2018
hakanai:


Is not about the disenfranchise but about using text message as a reliable alternative.Expecting to stop people from selling votes or lying about there bio data as capture in records through phone records.

Also won't that expose Nigeria to the era of the best paid and professional hacker determines the winner abi president or governors etc....?

I don't really know how to quote on this forum. But then the common sense guy gave his own views which I think he's entitled to. Bro if this guys actually want to do smt they will do it with minimal mistakes. I think the SMS thingy can be deliberated upon and then improved upon if its really a good idea. Don't just discard ideas because of few grey areas. And the issue of hacking. Why are those so called hackers not hacking our acct if it is easy to get it into our banks database. I know there's always possibilities of people trying to manipulate the system but that would be minimal and the voice of the numerous good people will prevail. There's no perfect system.
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by iyandaoluwaoba: 6:19pm On Jul 19, 2018
I think the reason why those politicians resolve to buying votes is because they know there's limited number of people that participate in voting. Here in Ibadan ajimobi won the last election with about two hundred thousand voters or so. The number of people that are not in any political party that votes on an election day is small because most people are naturally disenfranchised through making the collection of PVC a hell of a process thus making it easy for the average Nigerian politician to buy the small number of people in their party. NB it's not everyone in ekiti that has the link to that money. Some wanted to collect it but they font belong to any political party so making them not qualified for the money.
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Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by briggz09(m): 6:21pm On Jul 19, 2018
We should kuku vote via bvn na... Guess that will be hard to rig
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by saltoasis: 6:22pm On Jul 19, 2018
It seems as if common sense is no more common again o
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by fascia(m): 6:29pm On Jul 19, 2018
all of you speaking against the idea are the dumb one. The idea is really a good one if modified efficiently it could prove to be fair election method.. if we could find a way to synchronize all our databases (voters registration,,driver license registration, hospital record, national identity records, jamb registration, university student records, death certificate record, SIM registration record, national census record etc). it will just be a matter of streamlining and cross matching votes and voters record. so people can vote online, with text and elderly people who are technological deficient can vote with their thumb print at an electric voting poll.

we have good programers in Nigeria who could pull this off and we have records too. its really a good idea and it could work... finally this is a challenge to programmers out there, this is a challenge and any one that could solve this problem will be swimming in money I no time.
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by AK481(m): 6:37pm On Jul 19, 2018
bjayx:
A lot of folks v more than two lines while below 18 also do.
But only one fingerprint for them all.when 2or more identify matches,automatically only one will be taken,it’s is simple.
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by AK481(m): 6:39pm On Jul 19, 2018
Mynd44:
Lmaooooo


Yeah, almost every Nigerian adult has a Facebook account too, lets vote via facebook
Is ur fingerprint on Facebook?

Is ur fb details synced with the national DB.

See Na because say u be mod oh!
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by Kingspin(m): 6:44pm On Jul 19, 2018
Ejimagift:
Had PDP won Ekiti this loud mouthed Agama lizard senator won't remember the number of phone lines in the country. Why not recommend voting by twitter since that is your constituency. Yeye man
Like if PDP won = then APC will fold hands abi. Use ur ?
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by Nobody: 6:47pm On Jul 19, 2018
Mynd44:
Lmaooooo


Yeah, almost every Nigerian adult has a Facebook account too, lets vote via facebook
before you mock, try to understand......Facebook doesn't have our biometric information so it's quite different. As for multiple sim card problem, it's already solved because it's one bio-info to one sim....all subsequent Sims with the same bio-info becomes invalid.
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by williams080: 7:12pm On Jul 19, 2018
common sense senator wey borrow money to take build a world-class event center shopping mall for ABUJA, used same money to take buy luxurious houses in California, you forget same some folks get like four registered lines, or you want to let the network providers increase the sales of sim card to million make the common man nor fit but am again
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by Nobody: 7:43pm On Jul 19, 2018
Bros Bruce, I thought you were elected to bring up such ideas in the senate. Why are you not bringing such arguments to the National Assembly ?
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by Axis313(m): 8:05pm On Jul 19, 2018
Hardewarlee:
Beginning of Fraudulism and Rigginglism... Nigerians sha ! Na Wetin we are not up to we try to do ! Developing country my foot !
Corrected: Under developing ...

Quote good nor senseless I will not reply so don’t bother .
Which one be underdeveloping tori Olohun.Ha!
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by Lush100(m): 8:30pm On Jul 19, 2018
what of if we vote by bvn? this could work if the needed logistics are put in place.
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by AfricanMagic(m): 8:59pm On Jul 19, 2018
Ritzy10:
As tweeted by the common sense senator, Ben Murray Bruce!


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Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by bros856: 9:49pm On Jul 19, 2018
Nigerains always have a way of doing bad and fraudulent things so they will still buy vote from the phone text. Are trying to pretend as if we don't know Nigeriana have always shared money during elections. THEERE IS NOTHING NEW THAT HAPPENED DURING EKITI ELECTION. If PDP had won it won't have been money for vote.
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by EazyMoh(m): 9:58pm On Jul 19, 2018
FarahAideed:


Unique users is what he was referring to ...I can solve this easily sef
Can you also fix how someone in sokoto will not vote a HoR member for you in Enugu?
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by mukhcech(m): 12:41am On Jul 20, 2018
Zimmermann:
If Dat's possible and rig-proof, it's an awesome idea! BBN 2018 can be a case study cool

Bbnaija kee you there.
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by Mikeross62: 1:19am On Jul 20, 2018
hmm,multiple voting would be the order of the day round
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by tee4naija(m): 4:26am On Jul 20, 2018
How many Nigerians own the 100m phone lines? Some people have more than 10 registered phone lines while some don't have any. Ultimately, less than 30 million Nigerians own phone lines and this figure includes those owned by minors.
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by morisnewrain(m): 6:44am On Jul 20, 2018
Ritzy10:
As tweeted by the common sense senator, Ben Murray Bruce!


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you mean you don't buy vote? Even Saraki your Oga buys vote.
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by ashjay001(m): 12:25pm On Jul 20, 2018
sheriffman:
Good Question but very simple answer
What measures did his party put in place to see this through after 16 years in power?
Even in the Nass of which he's presently a. Member do they do electronic voting?


Yes, they dotongue
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by johnwell(m): 10:31am On Jul 21, 2018
Ejimagift:
Had PDP won Ekiti this loud mouthed Agama lizard senator won't remember the number of phone lines in the country. Why not recommend voting by twitter since that is your constituency. Yeye man

The man no dey get sense at all
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by Chimok: 11:52am On Jul 21, 2018
Most stupid idea of 2018
Re: We Have Over 100M Phone Lines, Why Can't We Vote By Text -sen.ben Bruce by Ritzy10(f): 4:45pm On Jul 21, 2018
Ekitimadman:
This is one of our leaders.

They don't have anything upstairs

You did not propose Electronic voting machine to be installed in a new voting center

Can you see why Nigeria is going backward?

Common sense is truly not common.

Wait!! Omg continue

What a shameful tweet. Nonsense

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