Nigeria: Civil Society Groups Score INEC High on Registration

1 February 2011

Abuja — In spite of hitches in the on-going voter registration in the country, Project 2011 Swift Count, a group of civil society, has scored the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, performance so far above 90%.

The independent monitoring group, however, added that the process had, in part, been marred by the malfunctioning of some Direct Data Capture, DDC, machines and shortages, as well as the inadequacy of essential materials in some areas, also called on INEC to release daily statistics of registrants per state and local government.

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