By Ogar Monday
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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has revealed that 51.3% of newly registered voters from Cross River State captured in the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise have returned invalid.
The data which was seen by CrossRiverWatch, and corrected up till January 14th, 2022 shows that Cross River’s percentage of 51.3% is above the national average of 44.6%.
The data, when broken down, shows that out of the 58,194 who registered in the Continuous Voters Registration, 29,844 returned invalid while 28,350 returned validly.
The Commission said their Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, revealed in a press conference that the Commission has done its data cleaning and discovered that for one reason or the other, some applicants provided false data and/or were reapplying even as they already had voter cards.
“Unfortunately, the troubling issue of invalid registration persists, which we detected while cleaning up the latest registration data. As against the AFIS used in previous exercises, the Commission introduced the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) which is a more comprehensive and robust system, involving not just fingerprint identification but also the facial biometric recognition
“Sadly it seems that many registrants either out of ignorance that they do not need to re-register if they had done so before, or a belief that our systems will not detect this infraction, have gone out to register again. This is despite repeated warnings by the Commission against this illegal action.
“These invalid registrations will not be included in the Register of Voters. This development is worrisome because of the time and resources used in handling these cases,” the INEC boss said.
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