Dear All:
When we consider that instead of 24 hours a day, it will be 8 hours per day of daylight registration, and instead of 7 days a week, it will realistically be only workdays Monday-Thursday (all others being religiously observed), then 60 multiplied by 3 multiplied by 7/4 gives 315 registrants per second.
Super-lightning SERIAL registration...and a "doctrine of necessity" prinicple for "emergency reasons" might still allow an extension of registrations time here...
On the other hand, a PARALLEL registration at 120,000 polling units gives 600 per polling unit, or 75 registrants per day for an 8-day registration period - or roughly 10 registrants per hour, or 1 regstrant per 6 minutes.
I figure that we will rquire four to five times that length of time per registrant, which means that we wont be able to register more than 10-15 million people in two weeks, outside chance of 20 million.
But we shall see...
Bolaji Aluko
-------- Tony Eluemunor wrote....
Dear All,
There is one great determinant not mentioned in Prof Aluko's remarkable number crunching; how daunting the task of registering 60 persons per second could be may only become clear when we are told how many persons, working with how many data collectors, such as laptop computers, would be "unleashed" across the nation. And how long they would work each day also matters..
If, for instance, one million Nigerians, working for 12 hours daily, would be engaged in the data capturing, then registering 60 persons a second would become a child's play. And when you have an army of two millions, then the task would be a breeze. And Prof Jega has some N90 billion to play with! He can afford to mobolize even five million Nigerians for the job, and pay some of them them top use their lap tops and cam corders. Then the INEC Prof will have to work out the issue of their tumb prints. I am sure that with the right software, the finger print identification on my laptop could begin to capture multiple finger prints - just for this national assignment.
By the way, the five days for the display and correction of voters register could be additional days for REGISTRATION of those left out during the initial registration.
Or, "abi no be so?"
Thanks.
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Modupe Odusanya <dupeodus@hotmail.com> wrote:
I will repeat this, in fact, shout it at the roof top. The problem with Nigeria in every aspect of our lives is over centralization. We do everything from the top down instead of from the bottom up. Why can't we fund local goverments to have their own independent electoral bodies and have everything conducted and controlled at the local goverment level with collation of figures up to the Federal level. We lack management skills but we always adopt approaches that demand super human management skills.
Modupe
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 18:44:15 -0700
Subject: Re: [NaijaPolitics] STAR INFORMATION: INEC announces time-table of activities for 2011 general elections - and lightning registration!
From: Mobolaji ALUKO <alukome@gmail.com>
Subject: [NaijaPolitics] STAR INFORMATION: INEC announces time-table of activities for 2011 general elections - and lightning registration!
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Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 5:58 PM
Dear All:The whistle is blown - off to the races.....I don't know though how 70 million people will be registered in 2 weeks, 14 days, 336 hours, 20,160 minutes, 1,209,600 seconds - or 60 persons per second.That is lightning registration!We shall see.....Bolaji Aluko_____________INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSIONTIME TABLE OF ACTIVITIES FOR 2011 GENERAL ELECTIONSIn exercise of the powers conferred on the Independent National Electoral Commission by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), the Electoral Act, 2010 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, the Independent National Electoral Commission (in this Time Table and Schedule of Activities referred to as "the Commission" hereby issues this Time Table and Schedule of Activities for 2011 General Elections
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ACTIVITY DATE REMARKS 1 Conduct of Party primaries 11th September, 2010 – 30th October, 2010 To enable Political Parties democratically nominate candidates for the elections as required by Section 87 of the Electoral Act, 2010 2 Issuance of Notice of election 13th October, 2010 Section 30 (1) of the Electoral Act, 2010 provides not later than 90 days before the election. 3 Campaign by Political Parties in public commences 17th October, 2010 Section 99(1) of the Electoral Act, 2010 provides 90 days before polling day. 4 Collection of Form CF001 (Affidavit/Personal particulars of candidates) and Form CF002 (Party's list of candidates) for all elections. 19th October, 2010 – 22nd October, 2010 No provision in the Electoral Act, 2010. 5 Registration of Voters 1st November 2010 – 14th November 2010 Pursuant to Section 9(5) of the Electoral Act, 2010 6 Display of Register of Voters for claims and objections. 20th November 2010 – 25th November, 2010 Pursuant to Section 19(1) of the Electoral Act, 2010 7 (a)(b)(c) Section 31(1) of the Electoral Act, 2010 provides for not later than 60 days before the election. 8 (a)(b)(c) Section 31(3) of the Electoral Act, 2010 provides for publication within 7 days of the receipt of the form CF001 9 (a)(b)(c) Section 35(1) of Electoral Act, 2010 provides not later than 45 days to the election. 10 Publication of official Register of voters for the elections. 16th December, 2010 Section 20 of the Electoral Act, 2010 provides not later than 30 days before the election. 11 (a)(b)(c) Section 32(3) of the Electoral Act, 2010 provides for publication within 7 days of the receipt of the form CF001 12 Collection of Nomination forms 22nd – 25th November, 2010 No provision in the Electoral Act, 2010. 13 (a)(b)(c) No provision in the Electoral Act, 2010. 14(a)(b)(c) Section 34 of the Electoral Act, 2010 provides at least 30 days before the day of election. 15(a)(b)(c) Section 46 of the Electoral Act, 2010 provides not later than 14 days before the election. 16 (a)(b)(c) Section 45 of the Electoral Act, 2010. Provides not later than 7 days before the election. 17(a)(b) Section 99(1) of the Electoral Act, 2010 prohibits Advertisements or broadcasts of campaigns 24 hours prior to the day of election. 18(a)(b)(c) By Sections 76, 178, 116 and 132 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 and Section 26 of the Electoral Act, 2010, dates of elections to be appointed by the Commission. Note: Run offs for Governorship and Presidential Elections (if any) will be held within 7 days after the announcement of the result of the respective elections. Section 179 (4) and (5) and Section 134 (4) and (5) respectively of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999.
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