VIDEO: INEC RELEASES VISUAL AIDS ON HOW TO VOTE IN 2015 ELECTION |

Independent National Electoral Commission has released a video that will act as a guide for the voting process tomorrow, 28th March, 2015. Watch Video Below;

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ACCREDITATION
• Polling units will be open from 8 am.
• Polling units will open at 8 am for Accreditation
and close at 1.00pm
• Voting starts 1:30 pm.
• You must vote in the same Polling Unit you
completed your Voter Registration.
HOW VOTER CAN VERIFY
REGISTRATION
• A voter is expected to check the register of voters
to ascertain that his name is included.
• That his name was correctly spelt and written.
• This is done when the register is displayed for
inspection.
PERSONS WHO CANNOT VOTE
• The following persons cannot vote at election.
• All persons below the age of 18 years.
• All non-Nigerians.
• All persons who did not register as voters.
• All persons who do not hold a voter registration
card.
• All persons whose names are not in the voters
register.
WHERE TO VOTE
• Voting takes place at polling stations/units.
• A voter is expected to cast his vote at the polling
unit where his name is on the voter register.
• A voter is expected to identfy his polling station
where his name is on the voter register.
• A polling unit nearest to the residence of the
voter.
HOW TO VOTE:
• Voting will be by Open Secret Ballot System.
• Your vote is secret because no one will see which
candidate you choose.
• You will mark your ballot behind a polling screen
secretly.
• Apply your finger print only in one circle/space
which corresponds to the candidate of your choice.
PROCEDURE: PREPARING FOR VOTING:
• The Presiding Officer (PO) shall:
• Explain the voting procedure to the voters.
• Invite all voters accreditated to form a single
queue.
• Where culture does not allow men and women to
mingle in a queue, separate queues are created for
men and women.
• The PO shall count loudly the number of
accredited voters in the queue, and record the
number.
COMMENCEMENT OF VOTING:
• At the commencement of voting, the PO shall:
• Invite the voters on queue to approach the poll
clerk (PC) in an orderly manner.
• On presentation of voter’s card, the PC shall:
• Check appropriate cuticle thumbnail of voter and
when he is satisfied that the person has been duly
accredited.
• Tick the voters’ register on the right hand side of
voter’s name.
• Indicating that he has voted.
• Apply indelible ink on the cuticle of the voter’s
appropriate thumbnail.
• The Poll Assistant (PA) shall apply ink to the
next finger of the respective hand
• Voters who have no Right/Left hand, the PA
shall:
• Apply the ink to the corresponding toes of the
voter’s Right/Left foot.
• Voters have neither fingers nor toes:
• Ink shall be applied on the corresponding toes of
the persons assisting them.
ISSUANCE OF BALLOT PAPER AND
VOTING:
• The voter shall present himself to the Polling
official (PO).
• The PO shall stamp and sign the back of ballot
paper.
• Fold the ballot paper vertically with the printed
side inwards.
• Issue the signed, stamped ballot paper to the
voter.
• The voter moves to the voting cuticle.
• Mark the ballot paper in the space provided beside
the party logo of the voters’ choice
• Fold the ballot paper.
• Deposit the marked ballot paper into the ballot
box.
• Marking of ballot paper by voter must be done in
secret.
• Depositing the ballot paper in the ballot box in
open view of all persons present.
• Only one voter at a time to the voting cubicle.