IT Expert Tasks INEC On Card Reading Machines

The Independent
Electoral Commission (INEC), has been called upon to fulfil  its promise to provide card reading machines at various polling units across the nation by 2015 general election.
Speaking in Port Harcourt The Tide Tuesday, Mr Smart Ogwutum, said the INEC may mar the whole process by introducing a card reading machine.
He said they may likely fail, because the builders of the said machine may not give them the required software due to the time frame.
Ogwutum, noted that things of that nature ought to undergo several processes before using it for any public function.
The IT expert, explained  that anything that has to do with e-system does not need rush adding that it would likely be another avenue to siphon public fund.
According to him, the INEC should have trained technicians to handle the machines at all the polling units in the country, before planning to use such system for elections.
Another respondent, Mrs Keccy Alozie said the reading machine would have helped if the country had a nice telecommunication system.
She was of the view that the besat way to handle such projects, was to link it directly to the telecom  system to regulate piracy.
Alozie, noted that if there are no provisions to en-code the system, that fake card reading machines would flood the country before the general election.
A top management  staff of INEC at its Port Harcourt office, who pleaded anonymity, said that the commission would not fail, since it was its policy.
The Tide was told that INEC has over the week, announced its readiness to use a card reading machine in next year’s general election as to among other things, hasten up the voting system.