VOTING PROCEDURE
Step 1:
Upon your arrival at the Polling Unit, join the queue and present yourself to the INEC official (APOIII) at the Polling Unit, who will determine whether you are at the correct Polling Unit or not. He/She will check if the photograph on the Permanent Voter Card (PVC) matches your face. If satisfied, he/she will direct you to the next INEC Official (APOI).
Step 2:
The Official (APOI) will request for your PVC to confirm that your card is genuine, using the Smart Card Reader (SCR). He/she will ask you to place your finger on the card reader to confirm that the PVC belongs to you.The card reader contains the name, photograph and finger prints of all those registered in their Polling Unit.
Step 3:
You will then meet the next Official (APOII) who will request for your PVC to confirm that your name and details are in the Voters Register. Your name will be ticked and your PVC returned to you. He/she will then apply indelible ink to the cuticle of your appropriate finger for that election to show that you have been accredited to vote. (If your name is not found on the register, you will not be allowed to vote).
Step 4:
The Presiding Officer (PO) will then stamp, sign and endorse the date at the back of the Ballot Paper. The PO will roll the ballot paper with the printed side inwards and give it to you. He /she will then direct you to the voting cubicle where you vote in secret.
Step 5:
You will stain your appropriate finger for the election with the ink provided then use your stained finger to mark the space or box provided on the ballot paper for your preferred candidate/party. Roll the marked ballot paper (in the manner the PO gave it to you).
Step 6:
Then leave the voting cubicle and drop the ballot paper in the ballot box in full view of people at the Polling Unit.
Step 7:
You will then leave the Polling Unit or wait if you so choose, in an orderly and peaceful manner, to watch the process up to declaration of result.
N.B. The result of each Polling Unit shall be pasted at the unit for everyone to see