ELECTORAL REFORMS: INEC SHOULD BE MANDATED TO SEND ALL ELECTION DATA TO THE NBS.

The National Assembly should amend the Section-62-(subsection-2) of the Electoral-Act in such a way that the INEC should be mandated -- to within a SPECIFIED TIMEFRAME after the announcement of the results (Say; 2-weeks) -- publish on their website; ALL the Election Accreditation Data including the summarized final results, together with all the lower-level collated results and the various results of the various Polling-units -- for each of the elections that are concluded by the INEC.
(The Election Accreditation Data which are published on the website should come with all the possible categorizations and demographics fully represented).



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The Electoral-Act should also be amended in such a way to mandate the INEC -- to within a SPECIFIED TIMEFRAME after the announcement of the results (Say; 2-weeks) -- Formally/Officially send ALL the Election Accreditation Data including the summarized final results to the office of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) for statistical documentation purposes.
The NBS (after receiving the set of data from the INEC) should be mandated by the Electoral-Act to run series of necessary independent consistency-tests on the whole set of data received (without any further compulsory input from the INEC during the period of the consistency-tests) before making the data public on their platforms; from where independent researchers can have access to the election data.
The maximum timeline for the election data to be made public by the NBS (including the publishing of the comprehensive reports which showed all the methodologies and the full results of all the consistency-tests which they conducted on the election results) should also be specified inside the Electoral-Act.. (Say; 3-weeks).
(The Election Accreditation Data that is sent to the NBS by the INEC should have all the possible categorizations and demographics fully represented in it)

The Electoral-Act should also indicate what would happen to the sets of data that were sent to the NBS, should in case the data-set FAILS the mandatory consistency-tests that would be conducted by the NBS.

I strongly believe that the day when the INEC-Results (and all the Possible Election DATA that goes with the Results) start to get fully published for public viewing and scrutiny (and also open to independent forensic audit) within 14-days of declaring the results,, that would be the only time our elections are beginning to get transparent enough..

Meanwhile....

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Toh

Nobody took the below thread seriously before the last election

I also created a thread about why election results must be mandated to be transmitted immediately after the counting of votes at the polling stations and the results declared there should be final..

https://www.nairaland.com/7230596/important-things-should-discussing-during

INEC is the most vseless organization in Nigeria.

Godwin Emefiele, Hadi Sirika, and Mahmud Yakubu should all be in jail for commiting the biggest fraud in Nigeria.

Why only Emefiele is in jail baffles me?

helinues:
Toh

Nobody took the below thread seriously before the last election

I also created a thread about why election results must be mandated to be transmitted immediately after the counting of votes at the polling stations and the results declared there should be final..

https://www.nairaland.com/7230596/important-things-should-discussing-during

The thread is nice..

One thing with Nigeria is this:: no matter the good intentions for the invention or the establishment of ANYTHING,, Nigerians are always out to find ways to bye-pass those intentions..
((Even if they have to include those people who are in charge of those inventions and/or establishments))..

And we are not ready to address this anomaly yet as a people..
We choose to pretend that all is well..
We choose to always point out that every country in the world do the same things we are doing..
We choose to tell ourselves that we should stop noticing such things.
Yet, the well-intentioned inventions and establishments continue to be bastardized as time goes on.
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As for the timely transmission of the results,, let us just say that the letters and the words which were used inside current Electoral-Act didn't state it clearly,, even though that was exactly what the law-makers had in mind when they mentioned “transmission”.

That is why I am always talking about further amendment of this current Electoral-Act,, where more specific procedures for any intentioned activities are well explained/described,, and most-importantly, these activities should be tied to SPECIFIC TIMELINES..
Or else, such specifically mentioned activities would become something which the INEC are free to do anytime they like,, even after 6-years.

With this, before the announced person is sworn in, Court will use the evidence to validate or not!

Fighting electoral corruption is not hard. In South Africa, all the results trickles in, in a large display. With your own eyes, you go know whether you win or not!

BluntCrazeMan:
The National Assembly should amend the Section-62-(subsection-2) of the Electoral-Act in such a way that the INEC should be mandated -- to within a SPECIFIED TIMEFRAME after the announcement of the results (Say; 2-weeks) -- publish on their website; ALL the Election Accreditation Data including the summarized final results, together with all the lower-level collated results and the various results of the various Polling-units -- for each of the elections that are concluded by the INEC.
(The Election Accreditation Data which are published on the website should come with all the possible categorizations and demographics fully represented).



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The Electoral-Act should also be amended in such a way to mandate the INEC -- to within a SPECIFIED TIMEFRAME after the announcement of the results (Say; 2-weeks) -- Formally/Officially send ALL the Election Accreditation Data including the summarized final results to the office of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) for statistical documentation purposes.
The NBS (after receiving the set of data from the INEC) should be mandated by the Electoral-Act to run series of necessary independent consistency-tests on the whole set of data received (without any further compulsory input from the INEC during the period of the consistency-tests) before making the data public on their platforms; from where independent researchers can have access to the election data. The maximum timeline for the election data to be made public by the NBS should also be specified inside the ELECTORAL (Say; 3-weeks).
(The Election Accreditation Data that is sent to the NBS by the INEC should have all the possible categorizations and demographics fully represented in it)

The Electoral-Act should also indicate what would happen to the sets of data that were sent to the NBS, should in case the dataset fails the mandatory consistency-tests that would be conducted by the NBS.

BluntCrazeMan:
The thread is nice..
One thing with Nigeria is this:: no matter the good intentions for the invention or establishment of ANYTHING,, Nigerians are always out to find ways to bye-pass those intentions..
((Even if they have to include those people who are in charge of those inventions and/or establishments))..

And we are not ready to address this anomaly yet as a people..
We choose to pretend that all is well..
We choose to always point out that every country in the world do the same thing we are doing..
We choose to tell ourselves that we should stop noticing such things.
Yet, the well-intentioned inventions and establishments continue to be bastardized as time goes on.
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We don't like to engage on issue based discussions, rather we focus too much attentions on petty discussions with no proffering of any solution to the issues affecting the country.

helinues:
Toh

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I also created a thread about why election results must be mandated to be transmitted immediately after the counting of votes at the polling stations and the results declared there should be final..

https://www.nairaland.com/7230596/important-things-should-discussing-during

As for the timely transmission of the results,, let us just say that the letters and the words which were used inside current Electoral-Act didn't state it clearly,, even though that was exactly what the law-makers had in mind when they mentioned “transmission”.

That is why I am always talking about further amendment of this current Electoral-Act,, where more specific procedures for any intentioned activities are well explained/described,, and most-importantly, these activities should be tied to SPECIFIC TIMELINES..
Or else, such specifically mentioned activities would become something which the INEC are free to do anytime they like,, even after 6-years.

BluntCrazeMan:
As for the timely transmission of the results,, let us just say that the letters and the words which were used inside current Electoral-Act didn't state it clearly,, even though that was exactly what the law-makers had in mind when they mentioned “transmission”.

That is why I am always talking about further amendment of this current Electoral-Act,, where more specific procedures for any intentioned activities are well explained/described,, and most-importantly, these activities should be tied to SPECIFIC TIMELINES..
Or else, such specifically mentioned activities would become something which the INEC are free to do anytime they like,, even after 6-years.

The transmission of results at the polling units wasn't mandated in the new amended electoral act. I remember how I raised issue with it immediately it was passed.

If the results which are declared at polling units are final which same would be declared at the national tallying center, as long as the candidates have their polling agents across all the polling units, rigging would be hard to do.

The last election, Labour Party in particular did not even have close to 50% agents across all the polling units agents in Nigeria. How would you proof you are rigged at somewhere you did not have any agent?

A thread about the important of polling agents was also created, as usual nobody took it seriously

https://www.nairaland.com/7215330/2023-election-conducted-early

To say the oppositions relied on the data release about PVC collected Statistics cost them the early loss

helinues:


We don't like to engage on issue based discussions, rather we focus too much attentions on petty discussions with no proffering of any solution to the issues affecting the country.

We continue to evolve..

The truth is...
The time we get our elections right,, there won't be need for all these election-petition tribunals any longer.

The whole data is already out in the open, and very easy to obtain.
Lots of organisations would get their hands on the data, and involve lots of independent audit firms who would look at the data from lots of different angles..

And each and every of the audit reports would still be arriving towards similar results,, ((save for some little discrepancies, which could be as a result of the methodologies used by those different auditors)).
That's what it should be.

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But when the wrong things are done,, hoarding of data becomes the next thing, so as to avoid exposing the wrongdoings..

This now means that researchers cannot do any research with the Nigerian Elections.

For instance, we cannot really pinpoint the Number or Percentage of youths who actually participated in these past elections.
How many of the voters were Civil-Setvants, how many of them were farmers??
Which states were there the most percentage of farmers who came out to vote??

These types of questions are what researchers need answers to..
But INEC said that they don't have such data any longer..

BluntCrazeMan:
We continue to evolve..

The truth is...
The time we get our elections right,, there won't be need for all these election-petition tribunals any longer.

The whole data is already out in the open, and very easy to obtain.
Lots of organisations would get their hands on the data, and involve lots of independent audit firms who would look at the data from lots of different angles..

And each and every of the audit reports would still be arriving towards similar results,, ((save for some little discrepancies, which could be as a result of the methodologies used by those different auditors)).
That's what it should be.

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But when the wrong things are done,, hoarding of data becomes the next thing, so as to avoid exposing the wrongdoings..

This now means that researchers cannot do any research with the Nigerian Elections.

For instance, we cannot really pinpoint the Number or Percentage of youths who actually participated in these past elections.
How many of the voters were Civil-Setvants, how many of them were farmers??
Which states were there the most percentage of farmers who came out to vote??

These types of questions are what researchers need answers to..
But INEC said that they don't have such data any longer..

We can't get the election right as long as we continue to elect the same crops of politicians at the Senate and HOA, what difference have LP elected senators or HOA made?

When we start focusing more about our constituency, our states and elect credible people to represent us, that's when we start getting things right because if credible people are elected to ordinary state Assemblies, governors with no idea about governance would be easily impeached or their bills proposals denied if they are not going to benefit the Masses .

Same goes to Senate and HOA

INEC should be thoroughly reconfigured to flush out all the post Jega/Mahmud Yakubu era officials including the partisan APC-card carrying RECs Yakubu appointed.

Next is legislation by the NASS to mandate INEC to enforce electronic voting, operation of a secured functional server with immediate updating of electoral information during polls as obtainable in the US and other democracies. Also is the resolution of election dispute first before a president or elected official is sworn in. 2023 was a nasty taste in the annals of this nation.

Bigkoko:
With this, before the announced person is sworn in, Court will use the evidence to validate or not!

Fighting electoral corruption is not hard. In South Africa, all the results trickles in, in a large display. With your own eyes, you go know whether you win or not!

Very Straight Forward..

In a country called Switzerland,, after elections, the Country’s Statistical Board is supposed to always run consistency-tests on their results within ONE WEEK..

So, it happened that last year,, an election in Switzerland was cancelled and reversed within ONE WEEK..
The Country’s statistical board passed the whole data concerning the election through their algorithms for testing the consistency of election results,, and they found some really huge inconsistencies which would have affected the outcome of the results if they were overlooked..

And that was it.!!

JUST ONE WEEK.!!

See the link here below..
👇🏼👇🏼
https://www.ft.com/content/9b2265e6-2d4e-4b10-8309-0a905d72f5cc

https://www.nairaland.com/7891207/switzerland-revises-election-results-after

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But here in Nigeria, Eleven Months will just pass in the courts, and nothing good would still come out of it.



***MODIFIED..**
I typed Norway earlier..
That was a mistake..
The actual country is Switzerland..
Not Norway..

weMUSTsayIT:


Get a job and stop posting rubbish

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Fergie

Regarding the guy that has been trolling me on this forum for over 6 years with numerous monikers, I have given him up to this week to stop or I will invite security operatives to come and take care of him.

This is not a threat, it's over 6 years of blackmailing, deliberately provocating and trolling. If he his not ready to stop, them it's time to teach him a bitter lesson

I contacted NPF over the weekend and I have been provided with the accurate contact details of the operatives in charge of this kind of situation.

Nobody should blame Helinues for the before warned advice . I no dey hide with my biting, I dey like to dey stand by it

https://www.nairaland.com/8105936/regarding-nl-notorious-troller

Weldone BluntCrazeMan! God bless all the efforts in contributing to public discuss and shapening the polity.

Racoon:
Nope! INEC should be thoroughly reconfigured to flush out all the post Jega/Mahmud Yakubu era officials including the partisan APC-card carrying RECs Yakubu appointed.

Just know that the problem with INEC (and all the MDAs and parastatals we now have in Nigeria) is a very deep-rooted attitudinal problem.
It affects all the living souls who are working over there..
If you flush out the appointed heads,, all the workers and staff-members who are in the organization are all still the same..

What exactly should we be doing in order to start correcting all these bad attitudes to work, and all the bad attitudes towards true productivity??

Next is legislation by the NASS to mandate INEC to enforce electronic voting, operation of a secured functional server with immediate updated electoral information as obtainable in the US and other democracies

If you noticed,, the Electoral-Act tried all it could to avoid the use of the word “Server”..
Even in trying to describe transmission, it seemed as if the Electoral-Act doesn't even know exactly what it meant by the word transmission..
Whether for the Presiding Officers to snap and send pictures of the results to photo-servers..
Or for the Presiding Officers to key-in the values in their machines and send same to a central Collation Server/System..
Or even a combination of both activities..
It just trusted INEC to come up with something -- anything at all..
And that means,, INEC can actual choose to come up with NOTHING..

So,, if the National Assembly Members gives us another amended Electoral-Act that gives INEC the powers and authorities to make choices again rather than giving them specific mandates on what they should be doing,, then,, I will consider that amended Electoral-Act like another useless document.

Racoon:
Weldone BluntCrazeMan! God bless all the efforts in contribute to public discuss and shapen the polity.

Thanks so much..


You know..
With the Consistency-Tests as part of the procedures for the validation of election results,, it only means two things..

1. INEC must now have to be doing their due diligence while conducting their elections, so that their results would come out good in the end.. This means that their main aim would now be for their results to pass the Consistency-tests which comes after the elections.
Therefore, their main aim would no more be for them to rush the whole process under tight secrecy and quickly declare any winner of their choice.

2. INEC must now have to send all the data to the NBS without holding any of the data back, because any data they refuse to send would definitely affect the results of the Consistency-tests very badly..

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This would serve as the major (and also the first series of the) CHECKS-AND-BALANCES which the INEC’s results must always pass through after every elections they finished conducting.. (( Whichever the pattern they choose to conduct their elections,, whether manual, electronic, telephonic, mobile, or even SOLAR))..

BluntCrazeMan:
Just know that the problem with INEC (and all the MDAs and parastatals we now have in Nigeria) is a very deep-rooted attitudinal problem.It affects all the living souls who are working over there..

If you noticed,, the Electoral-Act tried all it could to avoid the use of the word “Server." Even in trying to describe transmission, it seemed as if the Electoral-Act doesn't even know exactly what it meant by the word transmission..

Whether for the Presiding Officers to snap and send pictures of the results to photo-servers.Or for the Presiding Officers to key-in the values in their machines and send same to a central Collation Server/System.Or even a combination of both activities.

The reforms whether attitudinal or organogram wise must start somewhere. The current vicious cycle of electoral stagnation, abuse of electoral and democratic processes and lack of electoral credibility can not continue. It will definitely add to the issues that will consume this nation in the long run if not addressed.

Racoon:
The reforms whether attitudinal or organogram wise must start somewhere. The current vicious cycle of electoral stagnation, abuse of electoral and democratic processes and lack of electoral credibility can not continue. It will definitely add to the issues that will consume this nation in the long run if not addressed.

It had already started affecting the people.

Just watch out for what will happen in Edo and Ondo later this year.

The turnout will be low,, even with all the noise and hype.
And then,, the rigging will be electronic this time..
(Unlike the manual rigging they did in Kogi and Imo last year)

You will definitely go dumb after they are through with what they have in their vaults..

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Garfield1, Penguin2, Dalitigator

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Very good recommendation

BluntCrazeMan:
The National Assembly should amend the Section-62-(subsection-2) of the Electoral-Act in such a way that the INEC should be mandated -- to within a SPECIFIED TIMEFRAME after the announcement of the results (Say; 2-weeks) -- publish on their website; ALL the Election Accreditation Data including the summarized final results, together with all the lower-level collated results and the various results of the various Polling-units -- for each of the elections that are concluded by the INEC.
(The Election Accreditation Data which are published on the website should come with all the possible categorizations and demographics fully represented).



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The Electoral-Act should also be amended in such a way to mandate the INEC -- to within a SPECIFIED TIMEFRAME after the announcement of the results (Say; 2-weeks) -- Formally/Officially send ALL the Election Accreditation Data including the summarized final results to the office of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) for statistical documentation purposes.
The NBS (after receiving the set of data from the INEC) should be mandated by the Electoral-Act to run series of necessary independent consistency-tests on the whole set of data received (without any further compulsory input from the INEC during the period of the consistency-tests) before making the data public on their platforms; from where independent researchers can have access to the election data. The maximum timeline for the election data to be made public by the NBS should also be specified inside the ELECTORAL (Say; 3-weeks).
(The Election Accreditation Data that is sent to the NBS by the INEC should have all the possible categorizations and demographics fully represented in it)

The Electoral-Act should also indicate what would happen to the sets of data that were sent to the NBS, should in case the dataset fails the mandatory consistency-tests that would be conducted by the NBS.

All those senators that have not submitted any bill since they got there should copy this your submission and present on the floor

BluntCrazeMan:
Garfield1, Penguin2, Dalitigator

What defect or lacuna will it cure? Is Nigeria a country that values figures and statistics?

That should be our starting point. Otherwise, this will be another value to waste public funds.