At civil society/ inec dialogue on anambra state governorship election 9 th september 2013

1. AN OVERVIEW OF VOTERS REGISTRATION EXERCISE AND VOTERS EDUCATION AHEAD OF ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION At civil society/inec dialogue on anambra state governorship election 9thseptember 2013 Engr. Chidinwafor Director, ict

2. INTRODUCTION • Few months to the 2011 General Elections, INEC conducted registration in all the 119,973 Registration Centres in the Country. • Tentative figures were declared based on feedback from the field; and the Commission declared 2,011,746 registrants in Anambra State.

3. POLLING UNIT STATISTICS IN ANAMBRA STATE

4. REGISTER OPTIMIZATION PROCESS

5. REGISTER OPTIMIZATION PROCESS I – Data Consolidation

6. REGISTER OPTIMIZATION PROCESS II – AFIS • Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) • Uses a matching algorithm to determine suspected duplicates by comparing their fingerprints; • Due to issues encountered in the first few days of registration with regards to fingerprint capture which led to some registrants without fingerprints, the system uses an Equivalent Attribute Matching (EAM) algorithm to remove duplicate records: • Retains the record with fingerprints, or • Latest registration, as the case may be

7. Sample afis reports Same PU Obviously not an intentional double registration. System retains the most recent. Same Day

17. POST AFIS LGA BY LGA ANALYSIS

18. REGISTER OPTIMIZATION PROCESS III – Business rules for printing of PVCs • For the printing of PVCs, some business rules were applied, like: • any registrant with less than two fingerprints does not get a PVC

19. POST BUSINESS RULES FOR PVC –LGA BY LGA ANALYSIS

20. POST AFIS & BUSINESS RULES FIGURES LGA BY LGA

21. ANAMBRA REGISTER OPTIMIZATION

22. REASONS FOR VARIANCE BETWEEN DECLARED AND CONSOLIDATED DATA • Loss of DDCMs • Reported cases of manual registration without the use of DDCMs for Data Capture • We have 53 PUs without data

23. POLLING UNITS WITH NO VOTERS

24. POLLING UNITS WITH NO VOTERS

25. Lga Summary of pus with no voters

26. MATTERS ARISING • Loss of TVCs to flood, etc • Legal procedures to be followed • Transfers • Legal procedures to be followed • Persons turned 18 or did not register in 2011 • Avail themselves of the opportunity of the CVR • Four PUs illegally relocated to a forest during the 2011 Election • The Commission is going to verify their status and communicate decision soon

27. ACTIVITIES ON THE REGISTER OF VOTERS • Voter Verification Exercise – 16th to 18th August 2013 • All voters to go to their respective PUs to verify their registration status • Continuous Voter Registration Exercise – 19th to 25th August 2013 • Registration shall take place at the RA Centres; • For the 53 PUs without data, registration shall take place at the PUs; • Those whose names did not appear in the registers to come for fresh data capture; • Those turned 18 or did not register in 2011 to come for data capture.

28. WAY FORWARD • The Commission is eliminating the use of Addendum Registers; • CVR is proposed to handle cases of missing names, especially in places with zero voters; • Need to enlighten the people to come out and verify the status of their registration, before the CVR commences; three days to CVR; • People without their names in the register should come for recapture during the CVR exercise; • Transfer cases should follow the legal provisions – apply to the REC through the EO of the new LGA.

29. CONCLUSION • No doubt, a credible register is the bedrock for the conduct of a successful election; • As usual, the Commission is willing and ready to conduct a free, fair and credible Governorship Election in Anambra State; • It needs the cooperation of Stakeholders to work with the people at the grassroots in ensuring that all activities lined up for the optimization of the register of voters in the State are given the necessary attention.

30. Thank you