The House of Representative committee on Digital, Information Communication Technology and Cybersecurity, Hon. Adedeji Dhikrullahi Olajide (Odidiomo) has said, the time has come for Nigeria to embrace electronic voting in its democratic process.
Olajide, stated this in an interview with The Guardian in Ibadan.
The lawmaker, who represents Ibadan North-west/Ibadan South-west federal constituency of Oyo state, said e-Voting would go a long way in strengthening Nigeria’s electoral process.
He said, “The time has come for Nigeria to go into e-Voting. Anything technology is the way to go.Human interference in technology is an issue. Technology in itself is a good thing. But if you now have human interference in the wrong way, then you start having the wrong behavior of technology.
“So, yes, we are ready for it. The political will might not be there totally, “But again, we will move, regardless of whether you win or lose the election.
“The future generation must be protected on how they exercise their rights. So, that’s I believe in e-Voting.”
Electronic voting is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting ballots including voting time.
Depending on the particular implementation, e-voting may use standalone electronic voting machines (also called EVM) or computers connected to the Internet (online voting). It may encompass a range of Internet services, from basic transmission of tabulated results to full-function online voting through common connectable household devices. The degree of automation may be limited to marking a paper ballot, or may be a comprehensive system of vote input, vote recording, data encryption and transmission to servers, and consolidation and tabulation of election results.
