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Nigeria - As Kogi state prepares to elect a new governor, tension is mounting in Ganaja Unit 009 over malfunction of card readers.
"Accreditation closed" is the reading of some card readers when fingers are placed on them for accreditation.
The polling unit which has seven voting points with 3773 registered voters is famed for violence.
As voters express frustration, the electoral officers are working hard to fix the problem.
"We have been here since morning and we have not accredited one person with the card reader because it will read the card but when you place your finger, it will say 'accreditation closed,' Bako Abraham, Assistant Presiding Officer in charge of Voting Point 1, said.
"We have called our supervisors, and they said they are sending an engineer, when that will be we don't know."
He said the incident form is the alternative but because almost every body might have to fill the for,, the unit might run out of the paper.
Voting point 4 is also witnessing the same problem, but waiting voters complained that the machine was tampered with and needed to be urgently fixed.
The apprehension is that given the history of the unit, officials are not certain if the voters will continue to be patient.
"Accreditation closed" is the reading of some card readers when fingers are placed on them for accreditation.
The polling unit which has seven voting points with 3773 registered voters is famed for violence.
As voters express frustration, the electoral officers are working hard to fix the problem.
"We have been here since morning and we have not accredited one person with the card reader because it will read the card but when you place your finger, it will say 'accreditation closed,' Bako Abraham, Assistant Presiding Officer in charge of Voting Point 1, said.
"We have called our supervisors, and they said they are sending an engineer, when that will be we don't know."
He said the incident form is the alternative but because almost every body might have to fill the for,, the unit might run out of the paper.
Voting point 4 is also witnessing the same problem, but waiting voters complained that the machine was tampered with and needed to be urgently fixed.
The apprehension is that given the history of the unit, officials are not certain if the voters will continue to be patient.
