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Gaya Reveals N’Assembly Consideration Of Electronic Voting

National Assembly is said to be mulling the possibility of adopting electronic voting for future elections in the country.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Kabiru Gaya, said this on Tuesday at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja.

Gaya emphasized that the main focus of the National Assembly was to ensure that elections in the country were transparent, free, and fair.

According to the senator, just as the card readers were introduced into the country’s electoral system, the possibilities of adopting electronic voting would be worked on.

“Now, we are trying to introduce electronic voting. So, we are also working on that process. We have also agreed that INEC can decide to do electronic voting,” he said.

The senator explained that INEC could not embark on such venture initially because there was no approval.

He expressed optimism that in the nearest future, electronic voting would be adopted in the country.

“We should have a designed system that should be able to work for us to do electronic voting where an ordinary woman or man in the village will know where to touch to vote for a party,” Gaya said.