Unless the GOP are really Nigerian princes who email us wanting to implement voter ID programs, compulsory voting and biometric devices in the US could reduce a voting fraud rate in the US that is less than "
prosecutions for migratory bird law violations". The GOP is far too cowardly to implement
compulsory voting and more like Boko Haram in disrupting the voting process by reducing participation.
"So far, we have seen no evidence of systemic manipulation of the process," said the statement from UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and US Secretary of State John Kerry.
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Nigeria has extended voting to Sunday after problems occurred as millions turned out Saturday to vote in a presidential election that analysts say is too close to call between President Goodluck Jonathan and former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari.
The polling will continue Sunday in some areas where new machines were not reading voters' biometric cards, said Kayode Idowu, spokesman of the Independent National Electoral Commission. The areas where voting will be extended include Lagos, Nigeria's largest city on the Atlantic coast.
In other areas, vote counting has already begun, he said.
Nearly 60 million people have cards to vote and determine the outcome of the first election in Nigeria's history where an opposition candidate has a realistic chance of defeating a sitting president. The vote takes place amid an Islamic insurgency in Nigeria's northeast in which thousands have been killed.
Boko Haram extremists waving guns forced voters to abandon polling stations in three villages of northeastern Gombe state, witnesses said. The militants have vowed to disrupt elections, calling democracy a corrupt Western concept...
Even the president was affected. Three newly imported card readers failed to recognize the fingerprints of Jonathan and his wife. He returned two hours later and was accredited without the machine using visual identification. Biometric cards and readers are being used for the first time to discourage the kind of fraud that has marred previous votes.