Electronic balloting and Nigerian Electorates

Now, with the 2007 elections around the corner, the Independent National electoral commission (INEC) had planned to go on with the electronic balloting system here in Nigeria for the first time.

But, how safe and and accurate is this method of vote casting ? that is even becoming an object controversy in the US congress. How prepared are INEC in order to scale the huddles associated with the balloting system ?. Because according to Paul DeGregorio, chairman of the US Election Assistance Commission.

"These things are sort of like wrestling octopuses" and Avi Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said "The more people understand computers and the more they work with computers, the less thrilled they are about electronic voting," adds .

This clear indication that the INEC still have a lot hurdles to scale, because wrestling with "octopuses" is a game of life and death and it must be worn at all cost.

The Nigerian Octopuses are big and smart enough to wreck any organised political process, therefore Morris Iwu, the INEC chairman must be prepared to face the biggest and the meanest "octopuse" of his life or be damned.