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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> ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com; OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com;
> NIDOA@yahoogroups.com; naijaelections@yahoogroups.com;
> nderg@yahoogroups.com; naijaintellects@googlegroups.com
> From: teluemunor@yahoo.com
> 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!
>
>
> 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.
>
> Tony Eluemunor.
>
> --- On *Tue, 9/7/10, Mobolaji ALUKO <alukome@gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Mobolaji ALUKO <alukome@gmail.com>
> Subject: [NaijaPolitics] STAR INFORMATION: INEC announces time-table of
> activities for 2011 general elections - and lightning registration!
> To: "USAAfrica Dialogue" <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>,
> "NaijaPolitics e-Group" <NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com>, "ekiti
> ekitigroups" <ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com>, "OmoOdua" <
> OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com>, "NIDOA" <NIDOA@yahoogroups.com>, "Naija
> Elections" <naijaelections@yahoogroups.com>, "nderg" <
> nderg@yahoogroups.com>, "naijaintellects" <
> naijaintellects@googlegroups.com>
> 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
>
> _____________
>
> http://inecnigeria.org/newsview.php?newsid=509
> *INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION ** *
> ***TIME TABLE OF ACTIVITIES FOR 2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS *
> In 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
>
>
> *S/N*
>
> *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 17thOctober, 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 – 25
> th November, 2010 Pursuant to Section 19(1) of the Electoral Act, 2010 7
> * **(a)**(b)**(c)*
> Last day for submission of Forms CF001 and CF002 at the National
> Headquarters of the Commission
> *National Assembly *
> **
> ***Elections **Presidential Election*
> ***Governorship/State Assembly Elections*
>
>
>
> 15th November, 2010
> 22nd November, 2010
> 29th November, 2010
> Section 31(1) of the Electoral Act, 2010 provides for not later than 60
> days before the election. 8 *(a)**(b)**(c)*
> Publication of personal particulars of candidates. (CF001)
> *National Assembly Elections ** *
> **
> *Presidential Election ** *
> **
> ***Governorship/State Assembly Elections*
>
>
> 22nd November, 2010
> 29th November, 2010
> 6th December, 2010
> 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)*
> Last day for withdrawal by candidates/Substitution of withdrawn candidate
> by Political Parties
> *National Assembly Elections ** *
> ****
> * **Presidential Election ** *
> **
> *Governorship/State Assembly Elections*
>
>
> 30th November, 2010
> 7th December, 2010
> 14th December, 2010
> 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
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