AN OVERVIEW OF VOTERS REGISTRATION EXERCISE AND VOTERS EDUCATION AHEAD OF ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

1. AN OVERVIEW OF VOTERS
REGISTRATION EXERCISE
AND VOTERS EDUCATION
AHEAD OF ANAMBRA STATE
GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
AT CIVIL SOCIETY/INEC DIALOGUE ON ANAMBRA STATE
GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
9 TH S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 3
ENGR. CHIDI NWAFOR
DIRECTOR, ICT

2. INTRODUCTION
• Few months to the 2011 General
Elections, INEC conducted registration in
all the 119,973 Registration Centres in the
Country.
• Tentative figures were declared based
on feedback from the field; and the
Commission declared 2,011,746
registrants in Anambra State.

3. POLLING UNIT STATISTICS IN
ANAMBRA STATE
S/N LGA
1 AGUATA
TOTAL
PU
300
S/N LGA
12 IHALA
TOTAL
PU
278
2
AYAMELUM
173
13
NJIKOKA
201
3
ANAMBRA EAST
200
14
NNEWI NORTH
198
4
ANAMBRA WEST
158
15
NNEWI SOUTH
295
5
ANAOCHA
310
16
OGBARU
293
6
AWKA NORTH
130
17
ONITSHA-NORTH
201
7
AWKA SOUTH
255
18
ONITSHA -SOUTH
200
8
DUNUKOFIA
146
19
ORUMBA NORTH
231
9
EKWUSIGO
175
20
ORUMBA SOUTH
192
10
IDEMILI NORTH
306
21
OYI
166
11
IDEMILI-SOUTH
200
TOTAL
4,608

4. REGISTER OPTIMIZATION PROCESS
Data Consolidation Exercise
Automated Fingerprint Identification System
(AFIS)
Business Rules for PVC
Valid Register of Voters

5. REGISTER OPTIMIZATION PROCESS I –
Data Consolidation
Data
Consolidation
Data Upload
to the Server
Retrieval of all
DDCMs from
LGA offices
Back up data
from DDCMs
to external
storage
devices

6. REGISTER OPTIMIZATION PROCESS II –
AFIS
• Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS)
• Uses a matching algorithm to determine
suspected duplicates by comparing their
fingerprints;
• Due to issues encountered in the first few days of
registration with regards to fingerprint capture
which led to some registrants without fingerprints,
the system uses an Equivalent Attribute Matching
(EAM) algorithm to remove duplicate records:
• Retains the record with fingerprints, or
• Latest registration, as the case may be

7. SAMPLE AFIS REPORTS
Same PU
Obviously not an
intentional double
registration.
System retains the
most recent.
Same Day

17. POST AFIS LGA BY LGA ANALYSIS
S/N
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
LGA
AGUATA
AYAMELUM
ANAMBRA EAST
ANAMBRA WEST
ANAOCHA
AWKA NORTH
AWKA SOUTH
DUNUKOFIA
EKWUSIGO
IDEMILI NORTH
IDEMILI-SOUTH
IHALA
NJIKOKA
NNEWI NORTH
NNEWI SOUTH
OGBARU
ONITSHA-NORTH
ONITSHA -SOUTH
ORUMBA NORTH
ORUMBA SOUTH
OYI
Grand Total
TOTAL REG
103,500
76,131
62,843
49,504
78,911
51,003
108,845
44,936
61,661
175,309
87,089
114,522
69,723
108,048
54,943
140,782
116,137
121,111
62,752
46,126
77,643
1,811,519
VALID
98,921
54,232
59,072
42,733
74,601
43,042
105,386
43,510
59,535
170,300
83,273
110,511
68,039
105,983
53,383
136,493
114,165
119,631
58,665
44,219
72,471
MULTIPLES
4,579
21,899
3,771
6,771
4,310
7,961
3,459
1,426
2,126
5,009
3,816
4,011
1,684
2,065
1,560
4,289
1,972
1,480
4,087
1,907
5,172
1,718,165
93,354
% MULTIPLES
4.4
28.8
6.0
13.7
5.5
15.6
3.2
3.2
3.4
2.9
4.4
3.5
2.4
1.9
2.8
3.0
1.7
1.2
6.5
4.1
6.7
5.2

18. REGISTER OPTIMIZATION PROCESS III –
Business rules for printing of PVCs
• For the printing of PVCs, some business rules were
applied, like:
• any registrant with less than two fingerprints does not get a
PVC

19. POST BUSINESS RULES FOR PVC –
LGA BY LGA ANALYSIS
S/N
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
LGA
AGUATA
AYAMELUM
ANAMBRA EAST
ANAMBRA WEST
ANAOCHA
AWKA NORTH
AWKA SOUTH
DUNUKOFIA
EKWUSIGO
IDEMILI NORTH
IDEMILI-SOUTH
IHALA
NJIKOKA
NNEWI NORTH
NNEWI SOUTH
OGBARU
ONITSHA-NORTH
ONITSHA -SOUTH
ORUMBA NORTH
ORUMBA SOUTH
OYI
Grand Total
POST AFIS
98,921
54,232
59,072
42,733
74,601
43,042
105,386
43,510
59,535
170,300
83,273
110,511
68,039
105,983
53,383
136,493
114,165
119,631
58,665
44,219
72,471
1,718,165
POST BUS. RULES
98,381
53,630
58,342
42,317
74,215
42,686
105,141
43,410
59,378
169,959
83,018
109,681
67,792
105,320
53,332
136,106
114,067
119,571
58,407
44,095
72,213
1,711,061
DIFF.
540
602
730
416
386
356
245
100
157
341
255
830
247
663
51
387
98
60
258
124
258
7,104
%
0.5
1.1
1.2
1.0
0.5
0.8
0.2
0.2
0.3
0.2
0.3
0.8
0.4
0.6
0.1
0.3
0.1
0.1
0.4
0.3
0.4
0.4

20. POST AFIS & BUSINESS RULES FIGURES
LGA BY LGA
S/N
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
LGA
AGUATA
AYAMELUM
ANAMBRA EAST
ANAMBRA WEST
ANAOCHA
AWKA NORTH
AWKA SOUTH
DUNUKOFIA
EKWUSIGO
IDEMILI NORTH
IDEMILI-SOUTH
IHALA
NJIKOKA
NNEWI NORTH
NNEWI SOUTH
OGBARU
ONITSHA-NORTH
ONITSHA -SOUTH
ORUMBA NORTH
ORUMBA SOUTH
OYI
Grand Total
TOTAL REG
103,500
76,131
62,843
49,504
78,911
51,003
108,845
44,936
61,661
175,309
87,089
114,522
69,723
108,048
54,943
140,782
116,137
121,111
62,752
46,126
77,643
1,811,519
TOTAL VALID
98,381
53,630
58,342
42,317
74,215
42,686
105,141
43,410
59,378
169,959
83,018
109,681
67,792
105,320
53,332
136,106
114,067
119,571
58,407
44,095
72,213
1,711,061
TOTAL INVALID
5,119
22,501
4,501
7,187
4,696
8,317
3,704
1,526
2,283
5,350
4,071
4,841
1,931
2,728
1,611
4,676
2,070
1,540
4,345
2,031
5,430
100,458
% INVALID
4.9
29.6
7.2
14.5
6.0
16.3
3.4
3.4
3.7
3.1
4.7
4.2
2.8
2.5
2.9
3.3
1.8
1.3
6.9
4.4
7.0
5.6

21. ANAMBRA REGISTER OPTIMIZATION
Data
Field Work
• 2,011,746
Business
Rules
Consolidation
AFIS
• 1,811,519
1,718,165
• 1,711,061

22. REASONS FOR VARIANCE BETWEEN
DECLARED AND CONSOLIDATED DATA
• Loss of DDCMs
• Reported cases of manual registration without the
use of DDCMs for Data Capture
• We have 53 PUs without data
S/N LGA
RA
PU
DELIMITATION
04/02/05/001
1
AYAMELUM
OMASI
C/S OMASI UNO I
2
ANAMBRA EAST
NANDO II
AMAOWELEOKA PUB. SQUARE I 04/03/07/004
3
ANAMBRA EAST
UMURELI I
OYE MGBAGO
04/03/13/011
4
AWKA SOUTH
AGU OKA
PERM SITE MARKET I
04/07/01/005
5
AWKA SOUTH
AGU OKA
PERM SITE MARKET II
04/07/01/006
6
AWKA SOUTH
AGU OKA
AHOCOL PHASE II SQUARE
04/07/01/007
7
AWKA SOUTH
AGU OKA
ESTHER OBIAKOR ESTATE
04/07/01/010
8
AWKA SOUTH
AGU OKA
REAL ESTATE PRY. SCHOOL I
04/07/01/011
9
AWKA SOUTH
AGU OKA
BAKASSI CAMPUS HALL
04/07/01/013
10
AWKA SOUTH
AMAWBIA I
COMMUNITY PRY. SCHOOL I
04/07/02/001

23. S/N
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
LGA
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
RA
AMAWBIA I
AMAWBIA I
AMAWBIA I
AMAWBIA I
AMAWBIA I
AMAWBIA III
AWKA I
AWKA III
AWKA III
AWKA III
AWKA III
AWKA V
AWKA V
AWKA V
AWKA VI
MBA-UKWU
MBA-UKWU
NIBO II
NIBO III
NIBO III
NIBO III
PU
EZIEGEGE SQUARE II
EZI UME SQUARE I
EZI UME SQUARE II
UKWU AKPU SQUARE I
UKWU AKPU SQUARE II
EKE MARKET SQUARE V
NKWELLE PRY. SCHOOL III
EZINDICHIE SQUARE II
AKOGHELI SQUARE I
EZI NKWO SQUARE I
EZI NKWO SQUARE II
UMUIKE PUBLIC SQUARE I
UMUORUKA SQUARE II
ASUSU PRY. SCHOOL II
OGBUGBANKWA SQUARE I
AFOR MARKET SQUARE I
ONUNU PRY. SCHOOL I
UMUEKE ILE HALL II
OBINWANNE PRY. SCHOOL II
EBEDE NGENE UDO II
NKWO UMUAGBOGHOBIA I
POLLING UNITS WITH NO VOTERS
DELIMITATION
04/07/02/004
04/07/02/005
04/07/02/006
04/07/02/007
04/07/02/008
04/07/04/009
04/07/05/008
04/07/07/004
04/07/07/007
04/07/07/009
04/07/07/010
04/07/09/015
04/07/09/018
04/07/09/020
04/07/10/011
04/07/13/005
04/07/13/008
04/07/16/002
04/07/16/004
04/07/16/006
04/07/16/007

24. S/N
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
LGA
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
AWKA SOUTH
IDEMILI NORTH
IDEMILI NORTH
IHALA
IHALA
NNEWI NORTH
NNEWI NORTH
NNEWI NORTH
NNEWI NORTH
NNEWI SOUTH
NNEWI SOUTH
NNEWI SOUTH
NNEWI SOUTH
NNEWI SOUTH
OGBARU
OGBARU
ORUMBA SOUTH
RA
NIBO III
NIBO III
NISE I
NISE I
OKPUNO
OKPUNO
OBOSI
OBOSI
OKIJA III
ORSUMOGHU
NNEWI-ICHI II
OTOLO I
OTOLO III
UMUDIM II
AMICHI I
AMICHI III
AMICHI III
EZINIFITE II
UKPOR III
OKPOKO I
OKPOKO I
OGBOJI
PU
URUANA HALL I
EZIELLE SQUARE I
W.A.E.C SQUARE I
W.A.E.C SQUARE II
EBE IRUNONO SQUARE III
EZI EBE NODU
OGBUHOBI P/S I
PEOPLE'S CLUB SQUARE II
OKPARASAGU VILLAGE SQUARE II
COMM. P/S, ORSU I
OKWUEZEMEWI HALL VIII
NDIAKU OTOLO HALL II
NSUNANOR C/S III
EME COURT III
COMM. CENTRAL SCHOOL I
ISEKENDIDA HALL I
ISEKENDIDA HALL II
ONYEAKPU PRY. SCHOOL II
UMUDIKE HALL II
OGBARU MAIN MARKET VI
EKWELIGWE LANE II
RICE MILL PREMISES II
POLLING UNITS WITH NO VOTERS
DELIMITATION
04/07/16/009
04/07/16/011
04/07/17/010
04/07/17/011
04/07/19/004
04/07/19/006
04/10/07/012
04/10/07/028
04/12/10/008
04/12/13/003
04/14/02/017
04/14/03/015
04/14/05/006
04/14/07/008
04/15/02/003
04/15/04/008
04/15/04/009
04/15/09/004
04/15/15/008
04/16/09/013
04/16/09/014
04/20/10/006

25. LGA SUMMARY OF PUs WITH NO
VOTERS
S/N
LGA
TOTAL
1
AYAMELUM
1
2
ANAMBRA EAST
2
3
AWKA SOUTH
34
4
IDEMILI NORTH
2
5
IHALA
2
6
NNEWI NORTH
4
7
NNEWI SOUTH
5
8
OGBARU
2
9
ORUMBA SOUTH
1
TOTAL
53

26. MATTERS ARISING
• Loss of TVCs to flood, etc
• Legal procedures to be followed
• Transfers
• Legal procedures to be followed
• Persons turned 18 or did not register in 2011
• Avail themselves of the opportunity of the CVR
• Four PUs illegally relocated to a forest during the 2011
Election
WARD
PU
DELIM
Total
Valid
Invalid
%
Invalid
ANAMBRA OYI
NTEJE I
NZIKO VILLAGE SQUARE I
04/21/05/013
497
293
204
41.0
ANAMBRA OYI
NTEJE I
NZIKO VILLAGE SQUARE II
04/21/05/014
523
337
186
35.6
ANAMBRA OYI
NTEJE I
UKO VILLAGE SQUARE I
04/21/05/015
421
279
142
33.7
ANAMBRA OYI
NTEJE I
UKO VILLAGE SQUARE II
04/21/05/016
501
293
208
41.5
STATE
LGA
• The Commission is going to verify their status and
communicate decision soon

27. ACTIVITIES ON THE REGISTER OF
VOTERS
• Voter Verification Exercise – 16th to 18th August 2013
• All voters to go to their respective PUs to verify their
registration status
• Continuous Voter Registration Exercise – 19th to 25th
August 2013
• Registration shall take place at the RA Centres;
• For the 53 PUs without data, registration shall take place at
the PUs;
• Those whose names did not appear in the registers to come
for fresh data capture;
• Those turned 18 or did not register in 2011 to come for data
capture.

28. WAY FORWARD
• The Commission is eliminating the use of Addendum
Registers;
• CVR is proposed to handle cases of missing names,
especially in places with zero voters;
• Need to enlighten the people to come out and
verify the status of their registration, before the CVR
commences; three days to CVR;
• People without their names in the register should
come for recapture during the CVR exercise;
• Transfer cases should follow the legal provisions –
apply to the REC through the EO of the new LGA.

29. CONCLUSION
• No doubt, a credible register is the bedrock for the
conduct of a successful election;
• As usual, the Commission is willing and ready to
conduct a free, fair and credible Governorship
Election in Anambra State;
• It needs the cooperation of Stakeholders to work
with the people at the grassroots in ensuring that all
activities lined up for the optimization of the register
of voters in the State are given the necessary
attention.

30. Thank you