INEC bars video recording in polling booths
The Chairman of Independent National
Electoral Commission,
Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has said voters will not be allowed
to go inside polling booths with their telephones, cameras and any other
devices that can record images.
He said this on Monday in Osogbo at
the stakeholders’ forum organised ahead of Saturday election.
The INEC chairman said this would
help to curb the issue of vote-buying and vote-selling which he described as a
new strategy adopted by politicians to rig elections.
He said voters would not be barred
from using their devices at the polling units but would not be allowed to hold
their cameras and telephones from the moment they are issued with ballot papers
until they cast their marked ballots inside the ballot boxes.
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