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Your vote doesn't only get stolen at the collation center. It starts the moment nobody's watching your polling unit. This Friday, we're getting into it: Vote Buying, Ballot Box Snatching/Stuffing, Voter Intimidation, and eventually what happens to your votes after it leaves the polling unit. Joining the conversation: 🎙️ @tudobams Policy Analyst 🎙️ @cessadelove1 Legal Practitioner 🎙️ @ziter001 Political Commentator 📅 Friday, 11 Sept, 8PM 🔴 Live on X Spaces nitter.gq/i/spaces/1qKVmyNqRjAxB… Follow @ngelectionpolls so you don't miss it. #WhosWatchingYourPollingUnit #NigeriaDecides2027 #ProtectYourVote

A NEW NIGERIA IS POSSIBLE, BUT WE MUST FIRST PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF THE VOTE. Signed: *Chidi Lucky Kanu* Executive Director Actizens Social Impact Foundation (ASIF) For media enquiries: Actizens Social Impact Foundation (ASIF)

OUR ELECTORAL SYSTEM MUST BE TRANSPARENT, AUDITABLE AND VERIFIABLE. INEC must demonstrate, through credible evidence and independent scrutiny, that Nigeria's electoral infrastructure is adequately protected against both conventional and emerging digital threats.

The integrity of the 2027 general elections must be protected before, during and after voting. OUR VOTES MUST COUNT. OUR IDENTITIES MUST BE PROTECTED.

OUR FINAL POSITION Nigeria cannot afford an electoral system in which the identity of the voter is questionable, the integrity of digital records cannot be independently examined, or legitimate concerns remain unanswered.

Citizens must be able to verify their registration details, report suspected irregularities through lawful channels and demand accountability from institutions entrusted with protecting the electoral process.

Our message is straightforward: A credible election begins with a credible voters' register, continues with transparent accreditation and voting, and must end with independently verifiable results.

is mobilising Nigerians to participate lawfully in strengthening electoral transparency, documenting polling-unit activities and preserving authentic election evidence.

evidence. It must be to ensure that genuine vulnerabilities are identified and corrected before they can be exploited. CITIZENS MUST ALSO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY Through our NGelectionPolls citizen participation initiative, developed in collaboration with Mundux Analytics, ASIF

technology bodies, civil society organisations, the media and the Nigerian public to give this issue the urgent attention it deserves. The objective must not be to create public panic or undermine confidence without

transparent procedures, independently verifiable records, effective safeguards and institutional accountability. ASIF therefore calls on the National Assembly, relevant security agencies, professional

INEC MUST NOT WAIT UNTIL ELECTION DAY Electoral credibility cannot be established through assurances alone. It must be demonstrated through

6. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE AND ACCOUNTABILITY INEC must publish meaningful audit findings, explain identified vulnerabilities, disclose corrective measures and demonstrate how the integrity of the voters' register and election technology will be protected ahead of 2027.

stakeholders should be involved through a transparent process that protects sensitive systems and citizens' personal information.

destruction. 5. TRANSPARENT PARTICIPATION OF INDEPENDENT EXPERTS Credible cybersecurity professionals, independent technical auditors, civil society organisations and relevant

different functions of these systems. 4. PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL EVIDENCE Relevant system logs, database records, audit trails, access histories and electronic evidence must be securely preserved against unauthorised alteration, deletion or

3. INDEPENDENT SECURITY ASSESSMENT OF BVAS, IReV AND COLLATION SYSTEMS INEC should subject its voter accreditation, electronic result publication and relevant collation infrastructure to independent cybersecurity and forensic integrity assessments, recognising the different

2. INVESTIGATION OF SUSPICIOUS VOTER IDENTITIES Every flagged record must undergo lawful verification, with appropriate safeguards to ensure that genuine eligible voters are not wrongly disenfranchised.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should commission a comprehensive, independent forensic examination of the national voters' register to identify potentially duplicated, fabricated, inconsistent or unverifiable records.

ASIF DEMANDS SIX URGENT ACTIONS FROM INEC 1. INDEPENDENT FORENSIC AUDIT OF THE VOTERS' REGISTER