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               HOW TO GUARD AGAINST RIGGING ELECTIONS WITH CARD READERS

While on Global News Observers editors get busy on the research on how best to make democracy and electioneering free and fair without pre-election or post elections violence; they have bumped into this surprises and wishes to share it with you.

 

Card Reader Machines behaves like Saying:

 ''NO MATTER THE FROWN ON THE FACE OF A GOAT, IT WILL NOT STOP IT FROM BEEN TAKEN TO THE MARKET- Egbema Proverb.''

CAN IT BE POSSIBLE THAT CARD READERS PROCESS CAN BE RIGGED?

A blogger has posed this question amongst others in other to get more educations on the machine which has been revered by many in an electoral process.

However, to the lay man using Card Readers, PVC, or call it metallic strips or chip readers in an election are safe and devoid of electoral sharp practices. But for Professionals the use of these Card readers mainly eliminates the possibility of ballot snatching and paper works manipulations but it puts any party which has the upper hand in the handling of the contracts, manufacturing and data encoded, inputs and out puts as well as access to the  master keys on the advantage to detects, rig, or manipulate the elections to its favors.

Let’s give a little insight into these:
A PVC card in a nut shell is like the smart card for an Automated Door Keys, DSTV decoder, ATM cards or POS Card etc. They are workable due to the encoded data that are inputted to it by the maker and which transports the information on the transactions or use back to the feeder back up or a central server.  

It has Master Keys which operates it from the back door. That is in lay man explanations, assume you occupy a hotel room and your key was lost, then the front desk or management can use the master key and grant you access into the room. This means that assuming a manufacturer creates a good number of lines of millions of void cards to disfavor a particular party based on directives, it is possible these numbers are again turned into a non voidable cards and deposited in favors of a losing candidate while the elections are ongoing using the Master Access.

Again, while registrations are ongoing, most riggers by connivance of a PVC Card Readers manufacturers, may open the server access or through the Master Access grant to some locations outside the original country of use where they elections are going to be holding. That is for instance, Elections is holding in Ghana and the party trying to rig the election has a good location in Nigeria or Niger, this locations has to be a company or Government Organization. They will also register people or employees and the Servers or Master Access will accept them and indicate they are all Ghanaian and in Ghana Locations based on the encoding garbage in -garbage out language. During voting, they will also be accredited and vote. It is just matter of arrangement.

Thirdly, Card Reader Machines can be manipulated to work negatively against a particular party. How, in an online survey system, it is possible to detect declines when a voter tries to thumb for a particular candidate of negatively programmed to reject. By this way, a reader may accept the thumb but not input the record to a central register or a sub-server. 

#So many More like hacking, Uploading data from collation centers, phishing, scam, movements controls of readers and personnel and other internal pronouncement manipulations Etc. 
If you have no business pursuing good future, good governance, human and capital development and good agenda then be reminded that "The Vulture said, It has no business with the barba" 
you have no business to border but if not, you must guard against elections rigging whether card readers are deployed or not. To award contracts on use of Card readers and it machines and all its processes involved, Government, Political Parties, CLO and All interested parties involved must sits down, draw the rules and follow it up from the scratch to the finish. this is to avoid any manipulations. it must not be a rush in procedures or an ad-hoc arrangements.

To further, Buttress this stance, read what is happening in the first time Nigeria is using PVC Card Reader for its Election and see if you may draw more insight to support this narratives and Correct other ills from eroding your electoral processes.

PLEASE HEAR THE COMPLAINTS AND UNDERSTAND HIS POSITION.

(PIC: gentle soft truths by Fani-Kayode.)

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday called to question the integrity of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), accusing it of working for the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The PDP specifically alleged that the INEC not only awarded the contract for the supply of Master Card Readers to an APC apologist, but also handed the master key to the man whom it identified as Sani Musa.
Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, who disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja, accused INEC of putting in place in its preparation for the Presidential election programmes specifically meant to benefit the APC with a view to ensuring victory for the opposition party.
Fani-Kayode, however, expressed confidence that the PDP would win the elections irrespective of what happens, saying with confidence that Nigerians in their millions would vote for President Goodluck Jonathan.
Speaking on the controversy surrounding the debate of whether voters should stay behind after voting to protect their votes or not, the PDP asked voters to stay back at the polling units and ensure that their votes are not rigged in favour of the opposition.
“We cannot sit by idly and remain silent when a desperate group of ruthless and greedy little men, in collusion with their friends in the APC, rob the Nigerian people of their historic opportunity to elect a President of their choice.
“This they intend to do this by sitting in a dark room somewhere and rigging the election in the most sophisticated manner even before it holds.

“We shall share this information in good faith and we shall then leave the matter for necessary action by the relevant security agencies and authorities,” he stated.

“Our concerns stem from the fact that the moving spirit and a major shareholder and board member of the company that supplied the Card Reader system and machines to INEC is not only a friend of but also an ardent and keen supporter of General Mohammadu Buhari and the APC.

“That man’s name is Sani Musa and he is indeed the main force behind the company. The company’s name is Act Technologies Ltd. and the Chairman of the company is one Engineer SK Danladi.

“How and why INEC would give the contract to supply the Card Readers to a fanatical APC supporter and to a man whose other company was officially blacklisted by INEC a couple of years ago for sharp practices, needs to be explained,” he stated.

He said Sani Musa has expressed his undying support for the APC and General Buhari and his hatred and virulent opposition to the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan openly and publicly on his Facebook wall.

“Some of his comments on Facebook read as follows: ‘I stand with him (Buhari) for whatever reason” and “Imagine the kind of people given spaces in our nation’s news tabloids. Hoodlums are having field day in Nigeria since the inception of GEJ’s administration. Mad men, hooligans and vultures have taken over decency of the society. May Allah save us from the torments of this (sic) rascals and expose their intentions on our nation state be it the Boko Haram, killer militants or by extension those in authority with wicked intentions – Amen.’”

He also alleged that certain aspect of and electronic components within the Card Reader system which would be used in Saturday’s election had not only been compromised but that the encryption codes and so-called ‘’master key’’ may have been made available to the opposition or their friends and agents.

“This will enable them to access the system, fabricate and generate fake votes and manipulate the voting patterns to their advantage. This constitutes a very serious breach of security and it is a criminal offence,” he stated.

“If the conspiracy is not exposed, if the Nigerian people do not rise up and demand answers, if the plan is not intercepted and aborted, if the Chairman of INEC does not answer the relevant questions and take the necessary steps and if the relevant individuals, including Sani Musa and his collaborators and co-conspirators in INEC and the opposition, are not called to order, arrested, interrogated and prosecuted, their plan may well succeed,” he further said.

Raising further allegations, Fani-Kayode said specifically that, “The Master Encryption/Decryption Key that can “unlock” and simulate the PVC data processed by the Smart Card Reader had been compromised.

“There is only one copy of the Master Key in Nigeria and it is in the possession of an individual who is a known APC sympathiser/supporter (and also the contractor responsible for the production of PVCs and manufacture of Smart Card Readers for INEC who was already blacklisted by INEC following his inability to deliver ballot papers during the 2011 elections).

“The Master Key should rightly be in the possession of INEC, as the neutral umpire, under the most stringent access control protocol imaginable and not freely in the possession of a partisan actor,” he stated.